Alert archive / West Virginia / Flood Watches in 2009

Flood Watch 5, NWS Charleston, WV

May 8, 200928 counties in West Virginia; Gallia County, Lawrence County, Meigs County, Ohio; 4 counties in Kentucky

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flood watch at May 8, 2009, 3:57 AM EDT for 28 counties in West Virginia; Gallia County, Lawrence County, Meigs County, Ohio; 4 counties in Kentucky. It took effect at May 8, 2009, 7:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 23 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 8, 2009, 3:57 AM EDT (07:57 UTC)
In effect from: May 8, 2009, 7:00 PM EDT
Expired: May 9, 2009, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 23 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Flood severity: None

All 35 counties

Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Gallia County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Barbour County, WV, Boone County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Harrison 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, Pleasants County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV, Wyoming County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this 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 flood watch went out at May 8, 1:52 AM EDT, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 8, 1:52 AM EDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 6:11 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Wayne	4 hr

Nearby

Flood Watches in West Virginia, 2009 Flood Watches in Kentucky, 2009 Flood Watches in Ohio, 2009 Every flood watch in 2009

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.