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River Flood Warning 1, NWS Charleston, WV

January 31, 2025Barbour County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this river flood warning at Jan 31, 2025, 2:46 AM EST for Barbour County, West Virginia. It took effect at Jan 31, 2025, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for 39 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 31, 2025, 2:46 AM EST (07:46 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 31, 2025, 7:00 PM EST
Expired: Feb 2, 2025, 10:18 AM EST
In force: 39 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Moderate

County Barbour County, WV

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The river

Written for the forecast point Tygart Valley River at Belington (BELW2).

Action stage: 12 ft
Minor stage: 14 ft
Moderate stage: 17 ft
Major stage: 20 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03051000, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river flood warning 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 river flood warning went out at Jan 31, 12:26 AM EST, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 31, 12:26 AM EST, 2 hours 20 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
Jan 31, 2:46 AM EST	River Flood Warning	RLX	Barbour	46 hr
Jan 31, 7:30 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Boone, Cabell, Clay, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln and 4 more	15 hr
Jan 31, 7:57 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Boone, Clay, Fayette, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan and 6 more	17 hr
Jan 31, 8:04 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Jackson, Mason, Roane	6 hr
Jan 31, 9:02 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	McDowell	18 hr
Jan 31, 10:36 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Barbour, Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Gilmer, Harrison and 5 more	29 hr
Jan 31, 11:30 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Braxton, Clay, Nicholas, Pocahontas, Randolph, Upshur and 1 more	23 hr

Nearby

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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; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.