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River Flood Warning 18, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this river flood warning at Feb 13, 2025, 12:17 PM EST for Lincoln County, West Virginia. It took effect at Feb 16, 2025, 5:19 AM EST. It was in force for 36 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 13, 2025, 12:17 PM EST (17:17 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 16, 2025, 5:19 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 17, 2025, 5:00 PM EST
- In force
- 36 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Lincoln County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Guyandotte River at Branchland (BRAW2). The gauge peaked at 35.42 ft at Feb 16, 2025, 9:00 PM EST.
- Action stage
- 26 ft
- Minor stage
- 30 ft
- Moderate stage
- 35 ft
- Major stage
- 40 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03204000, 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 Feb 13, 9:41 AM EST, 2 hours 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 13, 9:41 AM EST, 2 hours 36 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 1:52 AM EST | Flood Watch | RLX | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 28 more | 3 days |
| Feb 13, 3:15 AM EST | Wind Advisory | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph | 16 hr |
| Feb 13, 11:56 AM EST | River Flood Warning | RLX | Mingo | 4 days |
| Feb 13, 11:59 AM EST | River Flood Warning | RLX | Mingo, Wayne | 4 days |
| Feb 13, 12:22 PM EST | River Flood Warning | RLX | Boone, Kanawha, Lincoln | 4 days |
| Feb 13, 12:10 PM EST | River Flood Warning | RLX | Carter, Greenup | 4 days |
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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.