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Flood Watch 7, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flood watch at Jul 6, 2022, 2:27 AM EDT for 18 counties in West Virginia; 9 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 2022, 2:27 AM EDT (06:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2022, 8:39 PM EDT
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Flood severity
- None
All 27 counties
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, Braxton County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Mason County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 1808 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1121 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 234 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 11.5
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 Jul 6, 1:38 AM EDT, 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 1:38 AM EDT, 49 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 8:19 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Lincoln | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 3:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | McDowell, Wyoming | 37 min |
| Jul 6, 3:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson, Kanawha, Roane | 52 min |
| Jul 6, 3:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Clay | 31 min |
| Jul 6, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Clay, Roane | 35 min |
| Jul 6, 4:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Kanawha | 35 min |
| Jul 6, 4:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Nicholas | 31 min |
| Jul 6, 5:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha, Putnam | 58 min |
| Jul 6, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Mason, Wayne | 30 min |
| Jul 6, 5:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Kanawha | 42 min |
| Jul 6, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Mason, Putnam and 1 more | 30 min |
| Jul 6, 5:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Randolph | 25 min |
| Jul 6, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Kanawha, Lincoln, Putnam | 30 min |
| Jul 6, 6:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Fayette, Kanawha | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 6:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Boone | 28 min |
| Jul 6, 6:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Fayette | 37 min |
| Jul 6, 7:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Mingo | 35 min |
| Jul 6, 12:31 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Perry | 29 min |
| Jul 6, 12:58 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Perry | 32 min |
| Jul 6, 1:29 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Morgan, Perry | 31 min |
| Jul 6, 1:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson, Vinton | 36 min |
| Jul 6, 2:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Athens, Meigs | 35 min |
| Jul 6, 2:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Washington | 35 min |
| Jul 6, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Gallia, Jackson, Lawrence | 27 min |
| Jul 6, 6:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Lawrence | 25 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.