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Areal Flood Warning 30, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this areal flood warning at Sep 30, 2016, 6:46 AM EDT for 5 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 3 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
- Sep 30, 2016, 6:46 AM EDT (10:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 30, 2016, 9:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Barbour County, WV, Pocahontas County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Upshur County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:49 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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 1586 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 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 Sep 30, 3:00 AM EDT, 3 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 30, 3:00 AM EDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 642 AM EDT FRI SEP 30 2016 KYZ101>103-105-OHZ066-067-075-083>087-VAZ003-004-WVZ005>009-013>018- 024>027-033>036-011045- GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE KY-PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-JACKSON OH- VINTON-MEIGS-GALLIA-LAWRENCE OH-DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-WAYNE-CABELL- MASON-JACKSON WV-WOOD-LINCOLN-PUTNAM-KANAWHA-ROANE-WIRT-CALHOUN- MINGO-LOGAN-BOONE-CLAY-MCDOWELL-WYOMING-RALEIGH-FAYETTE- 642 AM EDT FRI SEP 30 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST OHIO...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND MUCH OF WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. OHZ076-WVZ010-011-019-020-028>032-037>040-046-047-011045- WASHINGTON-PLEASANTS-TYLER-RITCHIE-DODDRIDGE-BRAXTON-GILMER-LEWIS- HARRISON-TAYLOR-NICHOLAS-WEBSTER-UPSHUR-BARBOUR-POCAHONTAS-RANDOLPH- 642 AM EDT FRI SEP 30 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST OHIO...AND PORTIONS OF CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA AND NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. AREAL FLOODING POSSIBLE WITH TRAINING CELLS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. 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, Sep 30, 6:17 AM EDT, 29 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 29, 10:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Pocahontas | 116 min |
| Sep 30, 6:13 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 3 hr |
| Sep 30, 8:46 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 6 hr |
| Sep 30, 9:40 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph | 6 hr |
| Sep 30, 2:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Roane | 34 min |
| Sep 30, 2:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pleasants, Ritchie, Roane, Wirt, Wood | 33 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.