Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Watches in 2012
Flash Flood Watch 13, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood watch at Jul 19, 2012, 10:47 AM EDT for 12 counties in West Virginia; Athens County, Ohio. It took effect at Jul 19, 2012, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 19, 2012, 10:47 AM EDT (14:47 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 19, 2012, 12:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Jul 19, 2012, 8:16 PM EDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Athens County, OH, Barbour County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:47 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, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 635 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
556 WGUS61 KRLX 191447 FFARLX URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED FLOOD WATCH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1047 AM EDT THU JUL 19 2012 OHZ075-WVZ009-016>020-028>031-039-040-192300- /O.NEW.KRLX.FF.A.0013.120719T1600Z-120721T0000Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ ATHENS-WOOD-ROANE-WIRT-CALHOUN-RITCHIE-DODDRIDGE-BRAXTON-GILMER- LEWIS-HARRISON-UPSHUR-BARBOUR- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ATHENS...PARKERSBURG...VIENNA... SPENCER...ELIZABETH...GRANTSVILLE...HARRISVILLE...PENNSBORO... WEST UNION...SUTTON...GASSAWAY...BURNSVILLE...GLENVILLE... WESTON...CLARKSBURG...BRIDGEPORT...BUCKHANNON...PHILIPPI... BELINGTON 1047 AM EDT THU JUL 19 2012 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST OHIO AND WEST VIRGINIA...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING AREAS...IN SOUTHEAST OHIO... ATHENS. IN WEST VIRGINIA...BARBOUR...BRAXTON...CALHOUN... DODDRIDGE...GILMER...HARRISON...LEWIS...RITCHIE...ROANE... UPSHUR...WIRT AND WOOD. * THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING * ANTECEDENT RAINFALL HAVE CAUSED SOILS TO BECOME NEARLY SATURATED SINCE YESTERDAY. LOCALIZED DOWNPOURS COULD OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY FRIDAY. RAIN AMOUNT OF 2 INCHES OR MORE COULD BE POSSIBLE THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING. * SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS AFFECTED BY THESE LOCALIZED DOWNPOURS WOULD RISE RAPIDLY. STREET...LOW LYING...AND POOR DRAINAGE AREA FLOODING CAN MORE EASILY OCCUR. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS MAY DEVELOP THAT LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. FLASH FLOODING IS A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION. THOSE LIVING ALONG FLOOD PRONE CREEKS...AND COUNTY OFFICIALS... SHOULD INCREASE YOUR WEATHER AWARENESS. MONITOR WATER LEVELS FREQUENTLY IF HEAVIER SHOWERS DO DEVELOP. BE PREPARED TO TAKE QUICK ACTION SHOULD FLOODING OCCUR...OR A FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS IS POSTED. && $$
1 follow-up statement
259 WGUS61 KRLX 200016 FFARLX FLOOD WATCH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 816 PM EDT THU JUL 19 2012 OHZ075-WVZ009-016>020-028>031-039-040-200130- /O.CAN.KRLX.FF.A.0013.000000T0000Z-120721T0000Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ ATHENS-WOOD-ROANE-WIRT-CALHOUN-RITCHIE-DODDRIDGE-BRAXTON-GILMER- LEWIS-HARRISON-UPSHUR-BARBOUR- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ATHENS...PARKERSBURG...VIENNA... SPENCER...ELIZABETH...GRANTSVILLE...HARRISVILLE...PENNSBORO... WEST UNION...SUTTON...GASSAWAY...BURNSVILLE...GLENVILLE... WESTON...CLARKSBURG...BRIDGEPORT...BUCKHANNON...PHILIPPI... BELINGTON 816 PM EDT THU JUL 19 2012 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS CANCELLED... THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST OHIO AND WEST VIRGINIA HAS BEEN CANCELLED. RAINFALL AMOUNTS HAVE NOT BEEN REALIZED. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 9:48 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Cabell | 87 min |
| Jul 18, 10:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Logan | 84 min |
| Jul 19, 2:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Cabell | 38 min |
| Jul 19, 2:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Lincoln, Putnam | 33 min |
| Jul 19, 3:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Boone, Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer, Kanawha, Lincoln and 7 more | 58 min |
| Jul 19, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Kanawha, Lincoln | 51 min |
| Jul 19, 4:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Barbour, Braxton, Clay, Fayette, Harrison, Lewis and 8 more | 54 min |
| Jul 19, 5:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Barbour, Fayette, Nicholas, Pocahontas, Raleigh, Randolph and 2 more | 46 min |
| Jul 18, 8:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Gallia | 38 min |
| Jul 19, 2:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Lawrence | 27 min |
| Jul 19, 2:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Morgan, Washington | 45 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in West Virginia, 2012Flash Flood Watches in Ohio, 2012Every flash flood watch 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.