Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2012
Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 1, 2012, 6:15 PM EDT for Barbour County, Randolph County, Upshur County, West Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 1, 2012, 6:15 PM EDT (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2012, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Barbour County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Upshur County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 168 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:16 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 595 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 896 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
929
WGUS51 KRLX 012215
FFWRLX
WVC001-083-097-020115-
/O.NEW.KRLX.FF.W.0035.120801T2215Z-120802T0115Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
615 PM EDT WED AUG 1 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN BARBOUR COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...
CENTRAL RANDOLPH COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...
NORTHEASTERN UPSHUR COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BUCKHANNON...
* UNTIL 915 PM EDT
* AT 611 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WARNED AREA.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
HODGESVILLE...COALTON AND BEVERLY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE
BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE STREAM BANKS TO BECOME UNSTABLE.
UNSTABLE STREAM BANKS CAN FAIL OR BECOME SLIPPERY. PERSONS SHOULD
STAY AWAY FROM STREAM BANKS...SWIFT FLOWING WATER AND CULVERTS. STAY
AWAY OR BE SWEPT AWAY!
&&
PLEASE REPORT HIGH WATER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING
TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.
LAT...LON 3874 7977 3874 7978 3871 7980 3870 7980
3865 7983 3903 8031 3911 8023 3901 8003
3880 7972
$$
282 follow-up statements
574
WGUS71 KRLX 012337
FFSRLX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
737 PM EDT WED AUG 1 2012
WVC001-083-097-020115-
/O.CON.KRLX.FF.W.0035.000000T0000Z-120802T0115Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
RANDOLPH WV-BARBOUR WV-UPSHUR WV-
737 PM EDT WED AUG 1 2012
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 915 PM EDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN UPSHUR...SOUTH CENTRAL BARBOUR AND CENTRAL RANDOLPH
COUNTIES...
AT 730 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE WARNED
AREA.
LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO BUCKHANNON
TURN AROUND DON'T DROWN. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR CAR ON FLOODED ROADWAYS.
PLEASE REPORT HIGH WATER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING
TOLL FREE 877-633-6772 WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.
LAT...LON 3874 7977 3874 7978 3871 7980 3870 7980
3865 7983 3903 8031 3911 8023 3901 8003
3880 7972
$$
14220
WGUS71 KRLX 020112
FFSRLX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
912 PM EDT WED AUG 1 2012
WVC001-083-097-020121-
/O.EXP.KRLX.FF.W.0035.000000T0000Z-120802T0115Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
RANDOLPH WV-BARBOUR WV-UPSHUR WV-
912 PM EDT WED AUG 1 2012
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 915 PM EDT FOR NORTHEASTERN
UPSHUR...SOUTH CENTRAL BARBOUR AND CENTRAL RANDOLPH COUNTIES...
HEAVY RAIN IS NO LONGER ANTICIPATED...ALTHOUGH ANOTHER BRIEF SHOWER
OR ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM IS POSSIBLE THROUGH LATE TONIGHT. THEREFORE
THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO
EXPIRE. STREAMS AND CREEKS HAVE BEGUN TO RECEDE AND NO LONGER POSE A
FLASH FLOOD THREAT.
TURN AROUND DON'T DROWN. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR CAR ON FLOODED ROADWAYS.
PLEASE REPORT HIGH WATER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING
TOLL FREE 877-633-6772 WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.
LAT...LON 3874 7977 3874 7978 3871 7980 3870 7980
3865 7983 3903 8031 3911 8023 3901 8003
3880 7972
$$
14The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 8:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Braxton, Nicholas, Webster | 2 hr |
| Aug 1, 2:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Wirt | 60 min |
| Aug 1, 2:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Jackson | 26 min |
| Aug 1, 3:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Mingo | 61 min |
| Aug 1, 3:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Logan | 57 min |
| Aug 1, 4:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Boone | 42 min |
| Aug 1, 4:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Harrison | 51 min |
| Aug 1, 5:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Clay, Kanawha | 65 min |
| Aug 1, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Clay, Fayette, Kanawha, Nicholas | 49 min |
| Aug 1, 6:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 113 min |
| Aug 1, 7:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Harrison | 58 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 2012Every flash flood warning in 2012
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.