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Areal Flood Warning 3, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this areal flood warning at Feb 16, 2016, 2:21 PM EST for Doddridge County, Pleasants County, Tyler County, West Virginia. It was in force for 20 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 16, 2016, 2:21 PM EST (19:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 17, 2016, 10:42 AM EST
- In force
- 20 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Doddridge County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Tyler County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:27 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KAGC), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 478 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 84 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal 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 areal flood warning went out at Feb 16, 1:26 PM EST, 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 16, 1:26 PM EST, 55 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 643 AM EST TUE FEB 16 2016 KYZ101>103-105-OHZ075-076-085>087-WVZ005>011-013>020-024>026-029>031- 171145- GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE KY-ATHENS-WASHINGTON-MEIGS-GALLIA- LAWRENCE OH-WAYNE-CABELL-MASON-JACKSON WV-WOOD-PLEASANTS-TYLER- LINCOLN-PUTNAM-KANAWHA-ROANE-WIRT-CALHOUN-RITCHIE-DODDRIDGE-MINGO- LOGAN-BOONE-GILMER-LEWIS-HARRISON- 643 AM EST TUE FEB 16 2016 ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM EST THIS MORNING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST OHIO AND MUCH OF WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLOOD WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. VAZ003-004-WVZ027-028-032>040-046-047-171145- DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-CLAY-BRAXTON-TAYLOR-MCDOWELL-WYOMING-RALEIGH- FAYETTE-NICHOLAS-WEBSTER-UPSHUR-BARBOUR-POCAHONTAS-RANDOLPH- 643 AM EST TUE FEB 16 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...AND PORTIONS OF CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. OHZ066-067-083-084-171145- PERRY-MORGAN-JACKSON OH-VINTON- 643 AM EST TUE FEB 16 2016 ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM EST THIS MORNING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST OHIO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Feb 16, 9:11 AM EST, 5 hours 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
911 AM EST TUE FEB 16 2016
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0910 AM SNOW 4 WNW JACKSON 39.07N 82.70W
02/16/2016 M2.0 INCH JACKSON OH CO-OP OBSERVER
24-HOUR TOTAL ENDING AT 7AM TUESDAY.
&&
EVENT NUMBER RLX1600619
MACLocal storm report, Feb 16, 9:13 AM EST, 5 hours 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
913 AM EST TUE FEB 16 2016
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0911 AM SNOW 1 S OAK HILL 37.97N 81.15W
02/16/2016 M2.0 INCH FAYETTE WV CO-OP OBSERVER
24-HOUR TOTAL ENDING AT 7AM TUESDAY.
&&
EVENT NUMBER RLX1600620
MACLocal storm report, Feb 16, 12:44 PM EST, 1 hour 37 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 10:35 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Cabell, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Feb 16, 1:21 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Cabell, Lincoln, Logan, Mason, Mingo, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Feb 16, 4:10 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Cabell, Calhoun, Doddridge, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln and 10 more | 3 hr |
| Feb 16, 6:38 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Kanawha, Lincoln, Putnam | 3 hr |
| Feb 16, 8:44 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison, Jackson, Lewis and 3 more | 61 min |
| Feb 16, 11:16 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Pleasants, Tyler | 3 hr |
| Feb 16, 12:43 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Tyler | 92 min |
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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.