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Areal Flood Warning 7, NWS Charleston, WV

March 1, 20177 counties in West Virginia; Washington County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this areal flood warning at Mar 1, 2017, 12:23 PM EST for 7 counties in West Virginia; Washington County, Ohio. It was in force for 8 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: Mar 1, 2017, 12:23 PM EST (17:23 UTC)
Expired: Mar 1, 2017, 8:15 PM EST
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Washington County, OH, Doddridge County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:25 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 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 150 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: 991 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 605 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 588 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 Mar 1, 12:17 PM EST, 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 1, 12:17 PM EST, 6 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 1, 11:58 AM EST, 25 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 1, 11:31 AM EST, 52 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 1, 11:47 AM EST, 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 1, 11:49 AM EST, 34 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 1, 11:51 AM EST, 32 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 1, 12:15 PM EST, 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 1, 12:23 PM EST, 0 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
Mar 1, 4:14 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wood	31 min
Mar 1, 4:23 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Doddridge, Harrison, Taylor, Tyler	37 min
Mar 1, 5:30 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Mason	30 min
Mar 1, 5:44 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Mason, Wirt, Wood	31 min
Mar 1, 6:15 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Calhoun, Gilmer, Jackson, Ritchie, Roane, Wirt	30 min
Mar 1, 6:44 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Mason	31 min
Mar 1, 6:46 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Barbour, Calhoun, Gilmer, Harrison, Lewis, Ritchie and 1 more	29 min
Mar 1, 6:58 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Doddridge, Harrison, Taylor	32 min
Mar 1, 7:15 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Calhoun, Jackson, Roane	30 min
Mar 1, 7:17 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Barbour, Lewis	28 min
Mar 1, 7:36 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer, Jackson, Lewis, Ritchie and 2 more	5 hr
Mar 1, 8:47 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell, Mason	28 min
Mar 1, 8:58 AM EST	Tornado Warning	RLX	Jackson, Mason, Wood	32 min
Mar 1, 9:01 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell, Wayne	44 min
Mar 1, 9:07 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Jackson, Mason, Wirt	5 hr
Mar 1, 9:09 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Doddridge, Harrison, Pleasants, Ritchie, Tyler, Wirt and 1 more	5 hr
Mar 1, 9:16 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell, Jackson, Mason, Putnam	29 min
Mar 1, 9:26 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boone, Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Mingo, Putnam and 1 more	49 min
Mar 1, 9:28 AM EST	Tornado Warning	RLX	Calhoun, Jackson, Ritchie, Wirt, Wood	32 min
Mar 1, 9:33 AM EST	Tornado Warning	RLX	Calhoun, Jackson, Mason, Putnam, Roane	27 min
Mar 1, 9:41 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Clay, Jackson, Kanawha, Putnam, Roane	34 min
Mar 1, 9:48 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boone, Fayette, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, Mingo and 2 more	27 min
Mar 1, 9:55 AM EST	Tornado Warning	RLX	Braxton, Calhoun, Gilmer, Jackson, Roane	35 min
Mar 1, 10:01 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer, Pleasants, Ritchie, Tyler and 1 more	29 min
Mar 1, 10:07 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	McDowell, Mingo, Wyoming	23 min
Mar 1, 10:16 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Fayette, Kanawha, Nicholas and 2 more	29 min
Mar 1, 10:18 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boone, Fayette, Kanawha, Logan, Mingo, Nicholas and 2 more	27 min
Mar 1, 10:25 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Braxton, Gilmer, Lewis, Randolph, Upshur, Webster	35 min
Mar 1, 10:28 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	McDowell, Mingo, Wyoming	32 min
Mar 1, 10:32 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Doddridge, Harrison, Lewis, Taylor	43 min
Mar 1, 10:44 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Fayette, Nicholas, Pocahontas, Raleigh, Randolph, Webster and 1 more	31 min
Mar 1, 10:59 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Pocahontas, Randolph, Upshur	31 min
Mar 1, 11:33 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Jackson, Mason, Wirt	3 hr
Mar 1, 11:55 AM EST	Wind Advisory	RLX	Pocahontas, Randolph	20 hr
Mar 1, 12:27 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer, Jackson, Lewis, Ritchie and 2 more	2 hr
Mar 1, 6:20 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Harrison	25 min
Mar 1, 6:49 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Nicholas, Webster	41 min
Mar 1, 6:52 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Raleigh, Wyoming	38 min
Mar 1, 3:32 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Athens, Morgan, Vinton	43 min
Mar 1, 3:36 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Morgan, Perry	39 min
Mar 1, 3:48 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens, Morgan, Vinton, Washington	27 min
Mar 1, 5:04 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Gallia, Jackson	26 min
Mar 1, 6:08 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Gallia, Jackson, Lawrence	3 hr
Mar 1, 6:12 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Gallia, Lawrence	33 min
Mar 1, 7:02 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Lawrence	28 min
Mar 1, 7:53 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Meigs	3 hr
Mar 1, 8:02 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Washington	3 hr
Mar 1, 8:22 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Gallia, Jackson, Lawrence	23 min
Mar 1, 8:23 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Athens, Jackson, Morgan, Perry, Vinton	3 hr
Mar 1, 8:28 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Athens, Morgan, Vinton	32 min
Mar 1, 8:34 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Perry	3 hr
Mar 1, 9:03 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Washington	27 min
Mar 1, 9:12 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Gallia, Jackson, Lawrence	5 hr
Mar 1, 11:05 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Athens, Jackson, Morgan, Perry, Vinton	9 hr
Mar 1, 11:39 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Gallia, Jackson, Lawrence	16 hr
Mar 1, 2:40 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Meigs	12 hr
Mar 1, 6:15 PM EST	River Flood Warning	RLX	Washington	7 hr
Mar 1, 4:38 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Greenup	22 min
Mar 1, 8:35 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boyd, Carter, Greenup, Lawrence	25 min

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 2017 Areal Flood Warnings in Ohio, 2017 Every areal flood warning in 2017

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.