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Flood Watch 2, NWS Charleston, WV

January 23, 20108 counties in West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flood watch at Jan 23, 2010, 4:19 PM EST for 8 counties in West Virginia. It took effect at Jan 24, 2010, 2:00 PM EST. It was in force for 22 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 23, 2010, 4:19 PM EST (21:19 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 24, 2010, 2:00 PM EST
Expired: Jan 25, 2010, 12:00 PM EST
In force: 22 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Flood severity: None

Counties Barbour County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Lewis County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Wyoming County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:18 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 191 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 489 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jan 23, 4:02 PM EST, 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 23, 4:02 PM EST, 17 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 23, 3:31 AM EST, 12 hours 48 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
331 AM EST SAT JAN 23 2010

KYZ101>103-105-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-VAZ003-004-WVZ005>011-
013>020-024>040-046-047-240845-
GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE KY-PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON-
JACKSON OH-VINTON-MEIGS-GALLIA-LAWRENCE OH-DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-WAYNE-
CABELL-MASON-JACKSON WV-WOOD-PLEASANTS-TYLER-LINCOLN-PUTNAM-KANAWHA-
ROANE-WIRT-CALHOUN-RITCHIE-DODDRIDGE-MINGO-LOGAN-BOONE-CLAY-BRAXTON-
GILMER-LEWIS-HARRISON-TAYLOR-MCDOWELL-WYOMING-RALEIGH-FAYETTE-
NICHOLAS-WEBSTER-UPSHUR-BARBOUR-POCAHONTAS-RANDOLPH-
331 AM EST SAT JAN 23 2010

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST
KENTUCKY...SOUTHEAST OHIO...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND WEST VIRGINIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

WE WILL BE WATCHING RAINFALL TOTALS FROM A STORM SYSTEM ON SUNDAY.
WITH THE GROUND SATURATED AND SOME RIVERS STILL A BIT HIGH FROM
RECENT PRECIPITATION...HIGH WATER ISSUES MAY ARISE IF HEAVY
RAINFALL TOTALS ARE OBSERVED.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 23, 2:49 PM EST	Wind Advisory	RLX	McDowell, Wyoming	27 hr

Nearby

Flood Watches in West Virginia, 2010 Every flood watch in 2010

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.