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Areal Flood Warning 32, NWS Charleston, WV

September 30, 2016Pocahontas County, Randolph County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this areal flood warning at Sep 30, 2016, 9:40 AM EDT for Pocahontas County, Randolph County, West Virginia. It was in force for 6 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, 9:40 AM EDT (13:40 UTC)
Expired: Sep 30, 2016, 3:30 PM EDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Pocahontas County, WV, Randolph County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:42 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 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 155 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1335 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 1 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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, 6:57 AM EDT, 2 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 30, 6:57 AM EDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 30, 6:42 AM EDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before

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, 3 hours 23 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 30, 8:33 AM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
833 AM EDT FRI SEP 30 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0800 AM     FLOOD            3 SSE GREENBANK         38.38N  79.81W
09/30/2016                   POCAHONTAS         WV   CO-OP OBSERVER

            PORTIONS OF WV 84 NEAR COOP OBSERVERS HOME IS COVERED
            IN DEBRIS AND AROUND 5 INCHES OF SWIFT MOVING WATER

&&

EVENT NUMBER RLX1601313

COOPER

Local storm report, Sep 30, 8:35 AM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
835 AM EDT FRI SEP 30 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0800 AM     FLOOD            DUNMORE                 38.35N  79.88W
09/30/2016                   POCAHONTAS         WV   CO-OP OBSERVER

            FLOODING HAS CLOSED PORTIONS OF HIGHWAYS 28 AND 92 NEAR
            DUNMORE

&&

EVENT NUMBER RLX1601314

COOPER

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, 6:46 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Barbour, Pocahontas, Randolph, Taylor, Upshur	3 hr
Sep 30, 8:46 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Pocahontas	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

Areal Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 2016 Every areal flood warning 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.