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Areal Flood Warning 2, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this areal flood warning at Jan 16, 2013, 6:16 PM EST for Randolph County, West Virginia. It was in force for 24 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
- Jan 16, 2013, 6:16 PM EST (23:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 17, 2013, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 24 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Randolph County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 169 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:18 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 383 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 84 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 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 Jan 16, 4:06 PM EST, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 16, 4:06 PM EST, 2 hours 10 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 16, 9:39 AM EST, 8 hours 37 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 939 AM EST WED JAN 16 2013 KYZ101>103-105-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-WVZ005>011-013>020-024>032- 036>040-046-047-171445- GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE KY-PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON- JACKSON OH-VINTON-MEIGS-GALLIA-LAWRENCE OH-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-FAYETTE-NICHOLAS-WEBSTER-UPSHUR-BARBOUR- POCAHONTAS-RANDOLPH- 939 AM EST WED JAN 16 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...SOUTHEAST OHIO AND MUCH OF WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. WVZ033>035-171445- MCDOWELL-WYOMING-RALEIGH- 939 AM EST WED JAN 16 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. A WINTRY MIX OF PRECIPITATION IS POSSIBLE THURSDAY THAT MAY REQUIRE ADVISORIES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. VAZ003-004-171445- DICKENSON-BUCHANAN- 939 AM EST WED JAN 16 2013 ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 AM EST THIS MORNING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWEST 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. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. A WINTRY MIX OF PRECIPITATION IS POSSIBLE THURSDAY THAT MAY REQUIRE ADVISORIES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jan 16, 6:05 PM EST, 11 minutes before
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 16, 8:34 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Lincoln | 116 min |
| Jan 16, 8:36 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Barbour, Pocahontas, Randolph, Webster | 3 hr |
| Jan 16, 9:18 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Fayette, Raleigh | 6 hr |
| Jan 16, 2:41 PM EST | Winter Storm Warning | RLX | McDowell, Wyoming | 28 hr |
| Jan 16, 2:41 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | RLX | Boone, Logan, Mingo | 28 hr |
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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.