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Flood Watch 9, NWS Charleston, WV

July 26, 202226 counties in West Virginia; 4 counties in Ohio; 4 counties in Kentucky

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flood watch at Jul 26, 2022, 9:02 AM EDT for 26 counties in West Virginia; 4 counties in Ohio; 4 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 26, 2022, 9:02 AM EDT (13:02 UTC)
Expired: Jul 29, 2022, 10:00 PM EDT
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Flood severity: None

All 34 counties

Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Gallia County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Boone County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Mason County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Pocahontas County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Roane County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Webster County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wyoming County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:03 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 220 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: 1161 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 153 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 209 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 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 26, 6:45 AM EDT, 2 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 6:45 AM EDT, 2 hours 17 minutes 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
Jul 25, 8:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	McDowell	56 min
Jul 26, 10:10 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	McDowell, Mingo, Wyoming	7 hr
Jul 26, 5:02 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	McDowell, Mingo, Wyoming	7 hr

Nearby

Flood Watches in West Virginia, 2022 Flood Watches in Ohio, 2022 Flood Watches in Kentucky, 2022 Every flood watch in 2022

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.