Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Watches in 2015
Flash Flood Watch 5, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood watch at Jun 26, 2015, 5:09 AM EDT for 28 counties in West Virginia; 9 counties in Ohio; 4 counties in Kentucky. It took effect at Jun 26, 2015, 2:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 27 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 2015, 5:09 AM EDT (09:09 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 26, 2015, 2:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2015, 4:32 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 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 09:12 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, 9.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 193 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1116 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
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 Jun 26, 4:59 AM EDT, 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 4:59 AM EDT, 10 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 26, 12:01 AM EDT, 5 hours 8 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1201 AM PM EDT FRI JUN 26 2015 OHZ066-067-075-076-084-WVZ009>011-019-020-030>032-039-040-270015- PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON-VINTON-WOOD-PLEASANTS-TYLER-RITCHIE- DODDRIDGE-LEWIS-HARRISON-TAYLOR-UPSHUR-BARBOUR- 1201 AM EDT FRI JUN 26 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OHIO...AND PORTIONS OF CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA AND NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS FRIDAY AFTERNOON INTO SATURDAY. THIS COULD CAUSE WATER ISSUES ON SMALL STREAMS. STRONG RISES COULD ALSO OCCUR ON RIVERS. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MAY BE NEEDED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. OHZ083-085>087-WVZ006>008-014>018-027>029-036>038-046-047-270015- JACKSON OH-MEIGS-GALLIA-LAWRENCE OH-CABELL-MASON-JACKSON WV-PUTNAM- KANAWHA-ROANE-WIRT-CALHOUN-CLAY-BRAXTON-GILMER-FAYETTE-NICHOLAS- WEBSTER-POCAHONTAS-RANDOLPH- 1201 AM EDT FRI JUN 26 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OHIO AND MUCH OF WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY. THIS COULD CAUSE WATER ISSUES ON SMALL STREAMS. STRONG RISES COULD ALSO OCCUR ON RIVERS. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MAY BE NEEDED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. WVZ013-025-026-033>035-270015- LINCOLN-LOGAN-BOONE-MCDOWELL-WYOMING-RALEIGH- 1201 AM EDT FRI JUN 26 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. LOCAL DOWNPOURS COULD CAUSE THE USUAL POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY. THIS COULD CAUSE WATER ISSUES ON SMALL STREAMS. STRONG RISES COULD ALSO OCCUR ON RIVERS. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MAY BE NEEDED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. KYZ105-VAZ003-004-WVZ005-024-270015- LAWRENCE KY-DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-WAYNE-MINGO- 1201 AM EDT FRI JUN 26 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. OVERNIGHT SHOWERS OR STORMS COULD STILL PRODUCE LOCAL DOWNPOURS. IF REPETITIVE SHOWERS DEVELOP...LOCAL FLASH FLOODING COULD OCCUR. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY AFTERNOON OR FRIDAY EVENING. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY. THIS COULD CAUSE WATER ISSUES ON SMALL STREAMS. STRONG RISES COULD ALSO OCCUR ON RIVERS. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MAY BE NEEDED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. KYZ101>103-270015- GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD- 1201 AM EDT FRI JUN 26 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY. THIS COULD CAUSE WATER ISSUES ON SMALL STREAMS. STRONG RISES COULD ALSO OCCUR ON RIVERS. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MAY BE NEEDED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. KTB
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 11:12 PM EDT, 5 hours 57 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
1112 PM EDT THU JUN 25 2015
WVZ013-025-026-260400-
BOONE-LOGAN-LINCOLN-
1112 PM EDT THU JUN 25 2015
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHERN LINCOLN...NORTHWESTERN
BOONE AND NORTH CENTRAL LOGAN COUNTIES...
AT 1111 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER GILL...OR 12 MILES
SOUTH OF HAMLIN...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
DIME TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MADISON...CHAPMANVILLE...GILL...JULIAN...SPURLOCKVILLE...HARTS...
RANGER...DANVILLE...PALERMO...FOSTER...MUD...TURTLE CREEK...
WOODVILLE...ALKOL AND JEFFREY.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY CAUSE
LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.
LAT...LON 3817 8217 3818 8180 3819 8176 3819 8171
3786 8188 3806 8221
TIME...MOT...LOC 0311Z 274DEG 22KT 3811 8214
14The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 9:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lincoln, Mingo, Wayne | 38 min |
| Jun 25, 10:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Boone | 58 min |
| Jun 25, 10:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Wayne | 50 min |
| Jun 25, 11:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Lincoln | 48 min |
| Jun 26, 4:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell | 30 min |
| Jun 26, 4:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell | 49 min |
| Jun 26, 5:50 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Clay, Fayette, Jackson, Kanawha, Mason, Nicholas and 1 more | 55 min |
| Jun 26, 6:46 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Jackson, Nicholas, Roane and 2 more | 59 min |
| Jun 26, 5:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Mason | 6 hr |
| Jun 26, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson, Mason, Putnam | 62 min |
| Jun 26, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Jackson, Kanawha, Mason, Putnam, Roane and 1 more | 60 min |
| Jun 26, 7:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Jackson, Roane | 36 min |
| Jun 26, 7:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Gilmer, Jackson, Kanawha and 2 more | 66 min |
| Jun 26, 4:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Jackson | 27 min |
| Jun 26, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Gallia, Jackson, Lawrence, Meigs, Vinton | 59 min |
| Jun 26, 7:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Gallia | 40 min |
| Jun 25, 9:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Lawrence | 25 min |
| Jun 25, 9:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Lawrence | 26 min |
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.