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Flash Flood Watch 11, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood watch at Aug 1, 2009, 2:46 PM EDT for 20 counties in West Virginia; Gallia County, Lawrence County, Ohio; 4 counties in Kentucky. It took effect at Aug 2, 2009, 3:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 1, 2009, 2:46 PM EDT (18:46 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 2, 2009, 3:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2009, 11:46 AM EDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Flood severity
- None
All 26 counties
Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Gallia County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Barbour County, WV, Boone County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Mason County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Roane County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Charleston, WV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood watch went out at Aug 1, 1:37 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 1, 1:37 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.