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Areal Flood Warning 28, NWS Charleston, WV

June 24, 2017Boyd County, Carter County, Greenup County, Kentucky

NWS Charleston, WV issued this areal flood warning at Jun 24, 2017, 6:00 AM EDT for Boyd County, Carter County, Greenup County, Kentucky. 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: Jun 24, 2017, 6:00 AM EDT (10:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2017, 9:00 AM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Greenup County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:00 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 138 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: 11 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -122 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 708 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -227 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 Jun 23, 7:53 PM EDT, 10 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 7:53 PM EDT, 10 hours 7 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 23, 8:00 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Cabell, Mason, Putnam, Wayne	7 hr
Jun 23, 8:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Doddridge, Harrison, Taylor	45 min
Jun 23, 8:05 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Jackson	10 min
Jun 23, 8:26 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Cabell, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln, Mason, Putnam and 3 more	4 hr
Jun 23, 8:35 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Putnam	4 hr
Jun 23, 8:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Taylor	33 min
Jun 23, 9:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Boone, Clay, Fayette, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan and 2 more	116 min
Jun 23, 9:24 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison, Lewis, Ritchie and 2 more	3 hr
Jun 23, 9:41 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Boone, Braxton, Clay, Fayette, Kanawha, Lincoln and 6 more	3 hr
Jun 23, 10:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	McDowell	92 min
Jun 23, 10:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Raleigh, Wyoming	72 min
Jun 23, 11:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Barbour, Braxton, Lewis, Pocahontas, Randolph, Taylor and 2 more	114 min
Jun 24, 2:55 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Cabell, Wayne	3 hr
Jun 24, 6:11 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Wood	18 hr
Jun 24, 10:27 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Vinton	9 hr
Jun 24, 1:20 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	RLX	Carter, Greenup	17 hr
Jun 24, 8:50 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Boyd, Carter, Greenup	18 hr

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.