Alert archive / West Virginia / Flood Watches in 2014
Flood Watch 4, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flood watch at Aug 21, 2014, 9:28 PM EDT for 5 counties in West Virginia; 4 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 21, 2014, 9:28 PM EDT (01:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2014, 3:07 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Logan County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:29 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 536 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 772 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 234 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this 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 flood watch went out at Aug 21, 7:37 PM EDT, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 21, 7:37 PM EDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 21, 9:36 AM EDT, 11 hours 52 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 936 AM EDT THU AUG 21 2014 KYZ101>103-105-OHZ083>087-VAZ003-004-WVZ005>008-013>016-024>027- 033>037-221345- GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE KY-JACKSON OH-VINTON-MEIGS-GALLIA- LAWRENCE OH-DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-WAYNE-CABELL-MASON-JACKSON WV-LINCOLN- PUTNAM-KANAWHA-ROANE-MINGO-LOGAN-BOONE-CLAY-MCDOWELL-WYOMING-RALEIGH- FAYETTE-NICHOLAS- 936 AM EDT THU AUG 21 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...SOUTHEAST OHIO...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA...SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH TONIGHT. THE MAJOR THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL. IN ADDITION...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR EXCESSIVE RAINFALL THROUGH TONIGHT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE ENOUGH RUNOFF TO PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IF DOWNPOURS BECOME REPETITIVE OVER THE SAME SMALL STREAM BASIN. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH WOULD BE NEEDED IF CONFIDENCE IN TIMING AND LOCATION INCREASES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. ADDITIONAL ROUNDS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED INTO THE WEEKEND...WITH HEAVY DOWNPOURS. IF DOWNPOURS BECOME REPETITIVE OVER THE SAME SMALL STREAM BASIN...FLASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE. IF LARGER CLUSTERS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OCCUR...STRONG RISES CAN OCCUR EVEN ON HEADWATER RIVERS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. OHZ066-067-075-076-WVZ009>011-017>020-028>032-038>040-046-047-221345- PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON-WOOD-PLEASANTS-TYLER-WIRT-CALHOUN- RITCHIE-DODDRIDGE-BRAXTON-GILMER-LEWIS-HARRISON-TAYLOR-WEBSTER- UPSHUR-BARBOUR-POCAHONTAS-RANDOLPH- 936 AM EDT THU AUG 21 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OHIO...CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA AND NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR EXCESSIVE RAINFALL THROUGH TONIGHT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE ENOUGH RUNOFF TO PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IF DOWNPOURS BECOME REPETITIVE OVER THE SAME SMALL STREAM BASIN. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH WOULD BE NEEDED IF CONFIDENCE IN TIMING AND LOCATION INCREASES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. ADDITIONAL ROUNDS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED INTO THE WEEKEND...WITH HEAVY DOWNPOURS. IF DOWNPOURS BECOME REPETITIVE OVER THE SAME SMALL STREAM BASIN...FLASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE. IF LARGER CLUSTERS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OCCUR...STRONG RISES CAN OCCUR EVEN ON HEADWATER RIVERS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 21, 4:30 PM EDT, 4 hours 58 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
430 PM EDT THU AUG 21 2014
VAZ003-004-WVZ024-025-033>035-212330-
BUCHANAN VA-DICKENSON VA-LOGAN WV-MCDOWELL WV-MINGO WV-RALEIGH WV-
WYOMING WV-
430 PM EDT THU AUG 21 2014
...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR WYOMING...LOGAN...MCDOWELL...
MINGO...SOUTHERN RALEIGH...BUCHANAN AND DICKENSON COUNTIES UNTIL 730
PM EDT...
AT 425 PM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE MOVING
EAST SOUTHEAST FROM EASTERN KENTUCKY AND WILL AFFECT THE SOUTHERN
COAL FIELDS AND SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS OF WEST VIRGINIA...AND SOUTHWEST
VIRGINIA THROUGH 7 PM. RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO 1 INCH IN LESS THAN
AN HOUR ARE LIKELY WITH SOME OF THE STORMS. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM
HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE ELEVATED LEVELS ON SMALL CREEKS AND
STREAMS...AND PONDING OF WATER ON COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLAND ALONG
THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR NAUGATUCK AROUND 430 PM...
CHATTAROY...MYRTLE...LENORE...AND WILLIAMSON AROUND 445
PM...DELBARTON...VARNEY...RED JACKET...AND MATEWAN AROUND 500 PM AND
PIE AROUND 515 PM.
THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING INTERSTATE...THE WEST VIRGINIA
TURNPIKE BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 28 AND 29.
YOU MAY REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER BY POSTING YOUR REPORT TO THE
CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FACEBOOK PAGE...OR
BY USING THE TWITTER HASHTAG...NWSRLX.
LAT...LON 3705 8250 3713 8255 3721 8255 3727 8235
3753 8199 3755 8213 3759 8213 3768 8231
3781 8241 3796 8208 3761 8106 3757 8120
3727 8142 3720 8156 3719 8168 3723 8173
3712 8200 3704 8205 3703 8217 3695 8236
05The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 3:07 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RLX | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 22 more | 25 hr |
| Aug 22, 3:16 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pleasants, Ritchie, Wirt, Wood | 3 hr |
| Aug 22, 1:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Boone | 64 min |
| Aug 22, 2:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Boone, Logan | 56 min |
| Aug 22, 3:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Logan, McDowell, Mingo, Wyoming | 87 min |
| Aug 22, 4:25 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lincoln, Logan, McDowell, Mingo, Wyoming | 5 hr |
| Aug 22, 5:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Cabell, Wayne | 86 min |
| Aug 22, 6:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boone, Cabell, Lincoln, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Aug 22, 7:52 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boyd, Carter, Lawrence | 113 min |
Nearby
Flood Watches in West Virginia, 2014Flood Watches in Kentucky, 2014Every flood watch in 2014
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.