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River Flood Warning 8, NWS Charleston, WV

March 12, 2010Pocahontas County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this river flood warning at Mar 12, 2010, 11:52 AM EST for Pocahontas County, West Virginia. It took effect at Mar 13, 2010, 6:38 PM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 12, 2010, 11:52 AM EST (16:52 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 13, 2010, 6:38 PM EST
Expired
Mar 13, 2010, 12:44 PM EST
In force
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Flood severity
Minor

County Pocahontas County, WV

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:53 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 river

Written for the forecast point Greenbrier River at Buckeye (BUCW2).

Action stage
12 ft
Minor stage
15 ft
Moderate stage
18 ft
Major stage
26.5 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03182500, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river flood warning 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 river flood warning went out at Mar 12, 11:04 AM EST, 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 12, 11:04 AM EST, 48 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 11, 7:11 PM ESTRiver Flood WarningRLXBarbour44 hr
Mar 11, 7:11 PM ESTRiver Flood WarningRLXBarbour44 hr
Mar 12, 11:52 AM ESTRiver Flood WarningRLXPocahontas33 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 2010Every river flood warning 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.