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Flood Watch 2, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flood watch at Mar 2, 2023, 1:37 PM EST for 9 counties in Ohio; Boyd County, Carter County, Greenup County, Kentucky. It took effect at Mar 3, 2023, 4:00 AM EST. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 2, 2023, 1:37 PM EST (18:37 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 3, 2023, 4:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2023, 6:24 PM EST
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Greenup 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
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 1981 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 85 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 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 Mar 2, 12:29 PM EST, 1 hour 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 2, 12:29 PM EST, 1 hour 8 minutes before
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Local storm report, Mar 2, 8:48 AM EST, 4 hours 49 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 10:16 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Mason | 29 min |
| Mar 1, 10:35 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Cabell | 25 min |
| Mar 1, 10:40 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Jackson, Mason | 35 min |
| Mar 1, 10:50 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Cabell | 25 min |
| Mar 1, 11:12 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Calhoun, Roane | 33 min |
| Mar 1, 11:16 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Putnam | 44 min |
| Mar 2, 12:17 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Braxton, Upshur | 43 min |
| Mar 2, 4:23 AM EST | Wind Advisory | RLX | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 28 more | 57 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:21 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Perry | 24 min |
| Mar 1, 9:39 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Carter | 36 min |
| Mar 1, 10:12 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Carter | 33 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.