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Flash Flood Watch 1, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood watch at May 4, 2019, 3:52 AM EDT for 18 counties in West Virginia; Lawrence County, Kentucky. It took effect at May 4, 2019, 5:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 17 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 4, 2019, 3:52 AM EDT (07:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 4, 2019, 5:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- May 5, 2019, 10:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 17 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Lawrence County, KY, Boone County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Clay County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Webster County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 flash flood watch went out at May 4, 3:08 AM EDT, 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 4, 3:08 AM EDT, 44 minutes before
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.