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Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Charleston, WV

July 4, 2016Ritchie County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 4, 2016, 10:55 PM EDT for Ritchie County, West Virginia. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 4, 2016, 10:55 PM EDT (02:55 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2016, 1:00 AM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Ritchie County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:00 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 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 161 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: 618 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 162 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted.

294 
WGUS51 KRLX 050255
FFWRLX
WVC085-050500-
/O.NEW.KRLX.FF.W.0032.160705T0255Z-160705T0500Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
1055 PM EDT MON JUL 4 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL RITCHIE COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN WEST VIRGINIA...

* UNTIL 100 AM EDT

* AT 1053 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
  HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAVE
  ALREADY FALLEN AND ABOUT ANOTHER HALF INCH WILL FALL...BUT WATERS
  ARE ALREADY RUNNING HIGH AND FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO
  BEGIN AGAIN SHORTLY.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  HARRISVILLE...PENNSBORO...NORTH BEND STATE PARK...ELLENBORO...
  CAIRO...PULLMAN...PIKE...HIGHLAND...PETROLEUM AND NUTTER FARM.

PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING TOLL FREE...800 401 9535...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.

YOU MAY ALSO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER BY POSTING YOUR REPORT TO THE
CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FACEBOOK PAGE...OR
BY USING THE TWITTER HASHTAG...NWSRLX.

LAT...LON 3934 8091 3929 8089 3927 8091 3919 8086
      3910 8126 3911 8128 3913 8129 3913 8130
      3915 8133 3918 8130 3920 8130 3925 8127

$$

KISTNER

1 follow-up statement

271 
WGUS71 KRLX 050424
FFSRLX

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
1224 AM EDT TUE JUL 5 2016

WVC085-050430-
/O.CAN.KRLX.FF.W.0032.000000T0000Z-160705T0500Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
RITCHIE WV-
1224 AM EDT TUE JUL 5 2016

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CENTRAL RITCHIE COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED. ALTHOUGH SCATTERED LIGHT RAIN SHOWERS WILL
CONTINUE OVERNIGHT...NO ADDITIONAL FLOODING IS EXPECTED. PLEASE
CONTINUE TO HEED ANY REMAINING ROAD CLOSURES.

LAT...LON 3934 8091 3929 8089 3927 8091 3919 8086
      3910 8126 3911 8128 3913 8129 3913 8130
      3915 8133 3918 8130 3920 8130 3925 8127

$$

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 4, 8:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Barbour	16 min
Jul 5, 3:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Kanawha	54 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 2016 Every flash 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.