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Areal Flood Warning 49, NWS Charleston, WV

May 6, 20225 counties in West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this areal flood warning at May 6, 2022, 4:33 PM EDT for 5 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 12 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: May 6, 2022, 4:33 PM EDT (20:33 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 2022, 4:30 AM EDT
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Braxton County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Roane County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 203 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: 478 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 139 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 170 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 May 6, 3:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 6, 3:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 6, 2:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 6, 3:57 PM EDT, 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 6, 4:08 PM EDT, 25 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 6, 4:20 PM EDT, 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 6, 4:23 PM EDT, 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 6, 4:26 PM EDT, 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 6, 4:32 PM EDT, 1 minute 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
May 6, 8:07 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Cabell, Wayne	23 min
May 6, 8:29 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Cabell	31 min
May 6, 8:59 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Cabell, Wayne	31 min
May 6, 9:18 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Putnam	27 min
May 6, 9:30 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Cabell, Mason, Putnam, Wayne	6 hr
May 6, 9:45 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Putnam, Roane	30 min
May 6, 10:04 AM EDT	Flood Watch	RLX	Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 28 more	18 hr
May 6, 10:12 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Kanawha	33 min
May 6, 10:15 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Calhoun, Roane	30 min
May 6, 10:25 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Gilmer, Roane	35 min
May 6, 10:33 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Jackson, Kanawha, Putnam, Roane	5 hr
May 6, 10:51 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Kanawha	24 min
May 6, 10:59 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Braxton, Gilmer, Lewis	31 min
May 6, 11:05 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Putnam, Roane	5 hr
May 6, 11:16 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Clay	29 min
May 6, 11:29 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Upshur	31 min
May 6, 11:45 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Braxton, Clay	30 min
May 6, 11:52 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Gilmer, Roane	5 hr
May 6, 11:59 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Randolph, Upshur	31 min
May 6, 12:42 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Boone, Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, Mingo and 1 more	4 hr
May 6, 12:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Fayette	29 min
May 6, 2:28 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Calhoun, Gilmer, Jackson, Mason, Putnam, Roane and 1 more	4 hr
May 6, 3:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Barbour, Braxton, Harrison, Lewis, Upshur, Webster	6 hr
May 6, 3:51 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Cabell, Mason, Putnam, Wayne	12 hr
May 6, 3:53 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Jackson, Kanawha, Putnam, Roane	11 hr
May 6, 4:07 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Putnam, Roane	6 hr
May 6, 4:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Boone, Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, Mingo and 1 more	12 hr
May 6, 4:58 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Barbour, Braxton, Clay, Fayette, Kanawha, Nicholas and 3 more	12 hr
May 6, 6:05 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Calhoun, Gilmer, Jackson, Mason, Putnam, Roane and 1 more	10 hr
May 6, 7:33 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Gallia, Jackson, Lawrence	4 hr
May 6, 5:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Martin	31 min

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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.