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Areal Flood Warning 2, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this areal flood warning at Feb 28, 2011, 3:17 PM EST for Kanawha County, West Virginia. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 28, 2011, 3:17 PM EST (20:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 28, 2011, 9:15 PM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Kanawha County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 219 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -263 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 825 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 373 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal 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 areal flood warning went out at Feb 28, 1:28 PM EST, 1 hour 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 28, 1:28 PM EST, 1 hour 49 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 212 AM EST MON FEB 28 2011 OHZ066-067-075-083-084-010715- PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-JACKSON OH-VINTON- 212 AM EST MON FEB 28 2011 ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... ...TORNADO WATCH 28 IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM EST THIS MORNING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OHIO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLOOD WATCH. TORNADO WATCH. IN ADDITION...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE MONDAY AFTERNOON ALONG A STRONG COLD FRONT. PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. KYZ101>103-105-OHZ076-085>087-VAZ003-004-WVZ005>011-013>020-024>040- 046-047-010715- GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE KY-WASHINGTON-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- 212 AM EST MON FEB 28 2011 ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...SOUTHEAST OHIO...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND MUCH OF WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLOOD WATCH. IN ADDITION...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY AHEAD OF AND ALONG A STRONG COLD FRONT. PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 9:14 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Clay | 31 min |
| Feb 28, 6:19 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wayne | 56 min |
| Feb 28, 6:42 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson, Mason, Pleasants, Ritchie, Tyler, Wirt and 1 more | 63 min |
| Feb 28, 7:13 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Lincoln, Mason, Wayne | 62 min |
| Feb 28, 7:14 AM EST | Tornado Warning | RLX | Wood | 32 min |
| Feb 28, 7:36 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lincoln, Logan, Mingo, Wayne | 54 min |
| Feb 28, 8:13 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Boone, Clay, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln, Putnam and 1 more | 47 min |
| Feb 28, 8:27 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Clay, Fayette, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln and 5 more | 48 min |
| Feb 28, 8:33 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Lincoln, Logan, Mingo, Raleigh, Wyoming | 57 min |
| Feb 28, 8:38 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Barbour, Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Gilmer, Harrison and 7 more | 67 min |
| Feb 28, 9:15 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Clay, Fayette, Nicholas, Raleigh, Webster | 30 min |
| Feb 28, 9:20 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Fayette, Logan, McDowell, Mingo, Raleigh and 1 more | 55 min |
| Feb 28, 9:25 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | McDowell | 35 min |
| Feb 28, 9:29 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Nicholas, Pocahontas, Randolph, Upshur, Webster | 61 min |
| Feb 28, 9:37 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell | 53 min |
| Feb 28, 12:00 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison, Lewis, Upshur | 3 hr |
| Feb 28, 12:13 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Wayne | 3 hr |
| Feb 28, 1:46 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | McDowell, Wyoming | 3 hr |
| Feb 28, 5:52 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Athens, Jackson, Morgan, Perry, Vinton | 53 min |
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.