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Flood Watch 3, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flood watch at Feb 5, 2019, 11:01 AM EST for 19 counties in West Virginia; 9 counties in Ohio; 4 counties in Kentucky. It took effect at Feb 6, 2019, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 44 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 5, 2019, 11:01 AM EST (16:01 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 6, 2019, 7:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 8, 2019, 2:41 AM EST
- In force
- 44 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Flood severity
- None
All 32 counties
Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Athens County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Perry County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Washington County, OH, Boone County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Mason County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:03 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 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 flood watch went out at Feb 5, 10:38 AM EST, 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 5, 10:38 AM EST, 23 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.