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River Flood Warning 10, NWS Charleston, WV

December 7, 2013Upshur County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this river flood warning at Dec 7, 2013, 9:01 AM EST for Upshur County, West Virginia. It was in force for 19 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 7, 2013, 9:01 AM EST (14:01 UTC)
Expired: Dec 8, 2013, 4:14 AM EST
In force: 19 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Moderate

County Upshur County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Buckhannon River at Buckhannon (BKNW2). The gauge peaked at 24.07 ft at Dec 7, 2013, 10:00 AM EST.

Action stage: 21 ft
Minor stage: 23 ft
Moderate stage: 25 ft
Major stage: 26 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03052450, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river 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 river flood warning went out at Dec 7, 6:09 AM EST, 2 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 7, 6:09 AM EST, 2 hours 52 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
Dec 6, 7:14 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Braxton, Clay, Doddridge, Fayette, Gilmer, Harrison and 7 more	8 hr
Dec 6, 8:37 PM EST	River Flood Warning	RLX	Barbour	39 hr
Dec 6, 9:33 PM EST	River Flood Warning	RLX	Boone, Kanawha, Lincoln	25 hr
Dec 6, 11:53 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Boone, Cabell, Clay, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln and 3 more	3 hr
Dec 7, 12:42 AM EST	River Flood Warning	RLX	Clay, Kanawha	13 hr
Dec 7, 12:42 AM EST	River Flood Warning	RLX	Kanawha	21 hr
Dec 7, 12:50 AM EST	River Flood Warning	RLX	Barbour	20 hr
Dec 7, 4:44 AM EST	Winter Storm Warning	RLX	Barbour, Braxton, Calhoun, Gilmer, Lewis, Upshur	50 hr
Dec 7, 2:31 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	RLX	Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 18 more	40 hr
Dec 7, 2:39 PM EST	Flood Watch	RLX	Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 15 more	37 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 2013 Every river flood warning in 2013

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.