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River Flood Warning 22, NWS Charleston, WV

February 15, 2025Logan County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this river flood warning at Feb 15, 2025, 7:51 PM EST for Logan County, West Virginia. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 15, 2025, 7:51 PM EST (00:51 UTC)
Expired: Feb 16, 2025, 6:03 AM EST
In force: 10 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Logan County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Guyandotte River at Logan (LOGW2).

Action stage: 21 ft
Minor stage: 23 ft
Moderate stage: 28 ft
Major stage: 35 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03203600, 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.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 15, 7:15 PM EST, 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 15, 7:20 PM EST, 31 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 15, 7:27 PM EST, 24 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Charleston WV
727 PM EST Sat Feb 15 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0724 PM     Flash Flood      Clintwood               37.15N 82.46W
02/15/2025                   Dickenson          VA   911 Call Center

            Ralph Cummins Ave & Wave Dr.

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JRM

Local storm report, Feb 15, 7:32 PM EST, 19 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 15, 7:35 PM EST, 16 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Charleston WV
735 PM EST Sat Feb 15 2025

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0734 PM     Flash Flood      8 ESE Vansant           37.20N 81.94W
02/15/2025                   Buchanan           VA   911 Call Center

            Water rescue along Contrary Creek.

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Local storm report, Feb 15, 7:42 PM EST, 9 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
Feb 15, 7:18 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	RLX	Boone, Logan, McDowell, Raleigh, Wyoming	3 hr
Feb 15, 8:09 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning EmergencyCatastrophic damage threat	RLX	McDowell	7 hr
Feb 15, 8:28 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Boone, Lincoln, Logan, Mingo, Wayne	3 hr
Feb 15, 8:28 PM EST	River Flood Warning	RLX	Wyoming	10 hr
Feb 15, 8:47 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Boone, Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, Putnam and 2 more	3 hr
Feb 15, 10:51 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Cabell, Jackson, Kanawha, Mason, Putnam, Roane	7 hr
Feb 16, 2:17 AM EST	Cold Weather Advisory	RLX	Pocahontas, Randolph	32 hr
Feb 16, 2:19 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Jackson, Mason, Wirt, Wood	6 hr
Feb 16, 2:52 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Pleasants, Ritchie, Roane, Wirt, Wood	8 hr
Feb 16, 6:12 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Cabell, Jackson, Kanawha, Mason, Putnam, Roane	4 days
Feb 16, 8:27 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Pleasants, Tyler	12 hr
Feb 16, 8:33 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Jackson, Mason, Wirt, Wood	35 hr
Feb 16, 9:47 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Lincoln, Mingo, Wayne	43 min
Feb 16, 10:24 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boone, Logan, McDowell, Mingo, Raleigh, Wyoming	51 min
Feb 16, 10:37 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Boone, Lincoln	23 min
Feb 16, 10:56 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Clay, Kanawha	49 min
Feb 16, 11:07 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Fayette, Nicholas, Raleigh	38 min
Feb 16, 11:13 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boone, Clay, Fayette, Kanawha, Nicholas, Raleigh and 2 more	47 min
Feb 16, 11:24 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Braxton, Gilmer, Lewis, Upshur	36 min
Feb 16, 11:50 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	RLX	Braxton, Clay, Lewis, Nicholas, Pocahontas, Randolph and 2 more	40 min
Feb 16, 12:03 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Barbour, Lewis, Upshur	42 min
Feb 16, 12:24 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Barbour, Pocahontas, Randolph	36 min
Feb 16, 12:57 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Barbour, Harrison, Randolph, Taylor	33 min
Feb 16, 2:06 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Fayette	7 hr
Feb 16, 5:13 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Athens, Jackson, Morgan, Perry, Vinton, Washington	37 hr

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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.