Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Watches in 2015
Flash Flood Watch 8, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood watch at Jul 5, 2015, 6:19 AM EDT for 18 counties in West Virginia; Boyd County, Carter County, Lawrence County, Kentucky. It took effect at Jul 5, 2015, 10:42 AM EDT. It was in force for 19 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 2015, 6:19 AM EDT (10:19 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 5, 2015, 10:42 AM EDT
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2015, 6:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 19 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Flood severity
- None
All 21 counties
Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Barbour County, WV, Boone County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Roane County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:21 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 1712 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 5, 6:19 AM EDT, 0 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 6:19 AM EDT, 0 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 5, 5:11 AM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 3:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Boone, Lincoln, Logan, Mingo | 112 min |
| Jul 5, 4:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boone, Lincoln, Logan, McDowell, Mingo, Wyoming | 4 hr |
| Jul 5, 5:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | McDowell, Wyoming | 84 min |
| Jul 5, 5:57 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | McDowell, Raleigh, Wyoming | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 7:11 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Barbour, Randolph, Upshur | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in West Virginia, 2015Flash Flood Watches in Kentucky, 2015Every flash flood watch in 2015
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.