Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Watches in 2016
Flash Flood Watch 4, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood watch at Jul 3, 2016, 1:24 PM EDT for 5 counties in West Virginia. It took effect at Jul 4, 2016, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 2016, 1:24 PM EDT (17:24 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 4, 2016, 8:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2016, 2:28 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Marion County, WV, Monongalia County, WV, Preston County, WV, Tucker County, WV, Wetzel County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:25 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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 256 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
- 131 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 559 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in West Virginia, 2016Every flash flood watch in 2016
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.