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Flood Watch 7, NWS Charleston, WV

May 7, 202415 counties in West Virginia; 6 counties in Ohio; 4 counties in Kentucky

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flood watch at May 7, 2024, 9:17 AM EDT for 15 counties in West Virginia; 6 counties in Ohio; 4 counties in Kentucky. It took effect at May 7, 2024, 2:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 40 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 7, 2024, 9:17 AM EDT (13:17 UTC)
In effect from: May 7, 2024, 2:00 PM EDT
Expired: May 9, 2024, 6:14 AM EDT
In force: 40 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Flood severity: None

All 25 counties

Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Athens County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Boone County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Mason County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Roane County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV, Wyoming County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:21 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, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 181 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: 608 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 67 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 May 7, 6:38 AM EDT, 2 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 7, 6:38 AM EDT, 2 hours 39 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
May 7, 3:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Wyoming	32 min
May 7, 4:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Wayne	27 min
May 7, 4:24 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	McDowell, Wyoming	3 hr
May 7, 4:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Wyoming	30 min
May 7, 4:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Wyoming	82 min
May 7, 5:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Raleigh	30 min
May 6, 8:27 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Lawrence	3 hr
May 7, 3:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Boyd, Carter	49 min

Nearby

Flood Watches in West Virginia, 2024 Flood Watches in Ohio, 2024 Flood Watches in Kentucky, 2024 Every flood watch in 2024

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.