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Flood Watch 2, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flood watch at Feb 5, 2025, 1:50 PM EST for 31 counties in West Virginia; Gallia County, Lawrence County, Ohio; 4 counties in Kentucky. It took effect at Feb 5, 2025, 10:00 PM EST. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 5, 2025, 1:50 PM EST (18:50 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 5, 2025, 10:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 6, 2025, 12:22 PM EST
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Flood severity
- None
All 37 counties
Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Gallia County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Barbour County, WV, Boone County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Harrison 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, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Webster County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 Feb 5, 1:34 PM EST, 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 5, 1:34 PM EST, 16 minutes before
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.