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Flash Flood Watch 10, NWS Charleston, WV

July 8, 201328 counties in West Virginia; 9 counties in Ohio; 4 counties in Kentucky

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood watch at Jul 8, 2013, 10:13 PM EDT for 28 counties in West Virginia; 9 counties in Ohio; 4 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 52 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 8, 2013, 10:13 PM EDT (02:13 UTC)
Expired: Jul 11, 2013, 2:00 AM EDT
In force: 52 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Flood severity: None

All 41 counties

Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Athens County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Perry County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Washington County, OH, Barbour County, WV, Boone County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Mason County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV, Wyoming County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:13 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 202 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1365 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1013 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 2.3

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 flash flood watch went out at Jul 8, 8:19 PM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 8:19 PM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 9, 6:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Doddridge, Pleasants, Tyler	94 min
Jul 9, 7:30 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Tyler	3 hr
Jul 9, 7:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Harrison, Taylor	77 min
Jul 8, 10:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Perry	65 min
Jul 8, 11:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Athens	67 min
Jul 9, 12:30 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Morgan, Perry	3 hr
Jul 9, 7:52 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Morgan, Perry, Washington	3 hr
Jul 9, 10:38 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Athens	6 hr
Jul 9, 11:18 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Athens	5 hr
Jul 9, 4:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Athens	3 hr
Jul 9, 5:30 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Athens, Morgan, Perry	4 hr
Jul 9, 5:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Morgan	52 min
Jul 9, 7:54 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Washington	36 hr

Nearby

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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.