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Flash Flood Warning 36, NWS Charleston, WV

July 14, 2016Cabell County, Wayne County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 14, 2016, 5:05 PM EDT for Cabell County, Wayne County, West Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr. 5 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 14, 2016, 5:05 PM EDT (21:05 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 2016, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Cabell County, WV, Wayne County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:07 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 14, 5:30 PM EDT	FLASH FLOOD	2 Sw Melissa, WV	* 1 FATAL * VEHICLE DROVE THROUGH HIGH WATER ALONG GREEN VALLEY DRIVE AND WAS PICKED UP BY FLOWING WATER AND CARRIED INTO FOURPOLE CREEK. DRIVER AND ONE PASSENGER WERE RESCUED....SECOND PASSENGER DROWNED IN FLOODWATER.
Jul 14, 5:46 PM EDT	FLASH FLOOD	3 Sw Melissa, WV	FOURPOLE CREEK OUT OF ITS BANKS AND FLOODING SEVERAL HOUSES AND BUILIDINGS ALONG GREEN VALLEY ROAD
Jul 14, 5:50 PM EDT	FLASH FLOOD	1 Sw Belmont Park, WV	SEVERAL PHOTOS ON SOCIAL MEDIA FROM WOODVILLE DRIVE OF WATER SURROUNDING HOMES AND BLOCKING THE ROAD.
Jul 14, 5:57 PM EDT	FLASH FLOOD	1 Se Melissa, WV	WATER IN HOMES AND BLOCKING DESTINY DRIVE ALONG ROUTE 10
Jul 14, 7:13 PM EDT	FLASH FLOOD	West Pea Ridge, WV	PHOTO SHOWS DARNELL ROAD IMPASSIBLE DUE TO A WASHOUT.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 172 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: 1232 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

684 
WGUS51 KRLX 142105
FFWRLX
WVC011-099-150000-
/O.NEW.KRLX.FF.W.0036.160714T2105Z-160715T0000Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
505 PM EDT THU JUL 14 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL WAYNE COUNTY IN WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA...
  WEST CENTRAL CABELL COUNTY IN CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA...

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT

* AT 504 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
  HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAVE
  ALREADY FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  HUNTINGTON...BARBOURSVILLE AND PEA RIDGE. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.

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 3841 8226 3835 8226 3833 8247 3840 8249

$$

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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 14, 1:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Cabell	46 min
Jul 14, 2:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Mason, Putnam	63 min
Jul 14, 2:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Kanawha	61 min
Jul 14, 3:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Roane	57 min
Jul 14, 3:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Putnam	44 min
Jul 14, 3:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Kanawha, Putnam	55 min
Jul 14, 4:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell	57 min
Jul 14, 4:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Webster	54 min
Jul 14, 4:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Kanawha, Lincoln, Putnam	47 min
Jul 14, 4:45 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Cabell, Kanawha, Putnam	3 hr
Jul 14, 5:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Nicholas	56 min
Jul 14, 5:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boone, Fayette, Kanawha	59 min
Jul 14, 5:51 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Cabell	3 hr
Jul 14, 6:07 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Fayette	4 hr

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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.