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Flood Watch 3, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flood watch at Apr 28, 2020, 12:59 PM EDT for 8 counties in West Virginia. It took effect at Apr 29, 2020, 8:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 16 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 2020, 12:59 PM EDT (16:59 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 29, 2020, 8:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2020, 11:53 AM EDT
- In force
- 16 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Fayette County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Pocahontas County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Webster County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:04 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 238 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2187 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Apr 28, 8:21 AM EDT, 4 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 8:21 AM EDT, 4 hours 38 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.