1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Charleston, WV wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 1, 6:12 AM EST, 5 hours 43 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 712 AM EDT FRI SEP 1 2006 .AVIATION /12Z TO 12Z/... MVFR TO IFR CONDITIONS MUCH OF THE TIME IN RAIN THIS PACKAGE. BAND OF RAIN ALONG OH RIVER NOT DIRECTLY ASSOCIATED WITH ERNESTO WILL KEEP HTS IFR FOR A WHILE LONGER THIS MORNING...EVEN LIFR AT TIMES...WHILE PKB GOES FROM VFR TO MVFR TODAY. CRW...CKB AND EKN REMAIN IN A BREAK...FLUCTUATING BETWEEN VFR AND MVFR/IFR TODAY. BKW WILL REMAIN IFR MUCH OF THE TIME WITH OCCASIONAL LIFR...AS RAIN FROM ERNESTO AFFECT THAT AREA. EKN SHOULD ALSO GO MVFR AND EVENTUALLY IFR TODAY AS RAIN FROM ERNESTO ARRIVES THERE. AS ERNESTO TRACKS N THROUGH VA LATE TODAY INTO TONIGHT...FLOW WILL GO FROM NE TO N TO NW. THIS UPSLOPE FLOW WILL RESULT IN MVFR TO IFR CONDITIONS AT LEAST ON CIGS ALL SITES. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 343 AM EDT FRI SEP 1 2006/ SHORT TERM /TODAY AND TONIGHT/... NAM SOLUTION WAS ALL BUT THROWN OUT AS IT TRACKS ERNESTO ALMOST DUE W FROM CURRENT POSITION. THIS DID NOT MAKE MUCH SENSE SINCE IT IS WELL S OF THE LATITUDE OF THE UPPER LEVEL LOW OVER WESTERN KY. GFS TRACKING LOOKED MUCH MORE REASONABLE TAKING ERNESTO NNW...SIMILAR TO TPC TRACK. RAIN AFFECTS MAINLY MOUNTAINOUS COUNTIES N OF BKW AREA GIVEN THIS SCENARIO. SECONDARY AREA OF RAIN OVER WESTERN COUNTIES IS ASSOCIATED WITH INVERTED SURFACE TROUGH AND AREA OF RELATIVELY WIDESPREAD UPPER DIVERGENCE OUT AHEAD OF AFOREMENTIONED UPPER LOW OVER KY. HOW LONG THIS PERSISTS WAS A LITTLE DIFFICULT TO FIGURE BUT UPPER SUPPORT WILL LIKELY WANE GRADUALLY AS UPPER LOW GETS CLOSER TO UPPER LEVEL COUNTERPART OF ERNESTO LATER TODAY. OTHERWISE GENERALLY ACCEPTED HPC QPF WHICH REFLECTS MOSTLY ERNESTO WITH AMOUNTS TODAY THROUGH TONIGHT TOTALING UP TO TWO INCHES FAR NE PART OF AREA...DOWN TO JUST UNDER AN INCH BKW AREA. DROPPING FLOOD WATCH S OF RALEIGH COUNTY THIS PACKAGE...SEE HYDROLOGY SECTION. SMALL TEMPERATURES RANGES TODAY AND TONIGHT SO NO MAJOR DEVIATIONS FROM THE GUIDANCE. LONG TERM /SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY/... GFS/MREF/ECMWF CONT TO TRACK REMNANTS OF ERNESTO INTO WRN NY BY THE START OF THE LONG TERM...WITH ANY PCPN CONFINED N OF I-64 AT 12Z SAT. BY MIDDAY...ALL PCPN ASSOCIATED WITH THE SYSTM WL BE N OF THE FCST AREA. COOLING ALOFT COURTESY OF H7-H3 DCVA IN CONJUNCTION WITH UPSLOPE FLOW TRANSLATES TO A ISOLD RW IN THE MTNS DURING THE AFTN. MSTR DECREASES RAPIDLY SAT NGT AND WITH LGT WINDS PROGGED...FG IS A GOOD BET OVRNGT. OTHER THAN PASSING MID AND HIGH CLDS BENIGN WX XPCTD THE REMAINDER OF THE HOLIDAY WKND. H8 TEMPS OFF THE 18Z MREF SUPPORT HIGHS IN THE 70S ALONG WITH COMFORTABLE RH LVLS. INVERTED SFC TROF SETS UP E OF THE BLUE RDG MON. BL FLOW IS STRONG ENOUGH TO SHUNT MSTR WWRD TO THE ERN SLOPES. CONTD SCHC/CHC POPS THERE DURING THE AFTN...WHILE NIXING POPS/WX ELSW. HYDROLOGY... HEAVY BAND OF PRECIPITATION THAT FORMED ALONG AND WEST OF AN INVERTED TROUGH ON THURSDAY FINALLY HAS BEGUN TO MOVE WEST INTO OHIO. RAINFALL TOTALS ACROSS WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA RANGED FROM ABOUT A HALF OF A INCH UP TO ABOUT 2.5 INCHES. RAINFALL AMOUNTS WITH THIS BAND NOW ARE GENERALLY A QUARTER OF AN INCH OR LESS PER HOUR SO NOT EXPECTING ANY FLOOD PROBLEMS WITH THIS BAND ON FRIDAY AS THE BAND SHOULD GRADUALLY WEAKEN DURING THE MORNING HOURS. SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS ARE SWOLLEN IN THIS REGION...BUT STILL WITHIN THEIR BANKS. IN THE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN MOUNTAINS ON FRIDAY...THE FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM RALEIGH COUNTY NORTHWARD. THIS REGION IS STILL PRIMED TO RECEIVE BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES OF RAIN AS THE REMNANTS OF ERNESTO CONTINUE TO PUSH NORTH. THE 850 MB AND 700 MB FLOW INCREASE FROM 20 TO 40 KTS OUT OF THE EAST THIS AFTERNOON. THIS SHOULD PUSH MORE MOISTURE INTO THE MOUNTAINS AND THE UPSLOPE CONDITIONS SHOULD ENHANCE THE PRECIPITATION. THE ONLY DRAW BACK AT THIS POINT IS THAT SURFACE DEW POINTS HAVE LOWERED INTO THE 50S FOR MOST OF THE LOCATIONS IN THE WATCH AREA...WHICH COULD LOWER THE PRECIPITATION RATES SLIGHTLY. FOR AREAS SOUTH OF RALEIGH COUNTY...THE BEST LIFT AND IN FLOW REMAIN TO THE NORTH OF THIS AREA. WITHOUT THE ADDITIONAL MOISTURE SOURCE AND THE SURFACE DEW POINT DROPPING HERE AS WELL...NOT EXPECTING ENOUGH RAIN FALL TO PRODUCE WATER PROBLEMS...WITH QPF GENERALLY LESS THAN AN INCH. FURTHERMORE...MOST AREAS IN SOUTHERN WV AND SOUTHWESTERN VA ONLY RECEIVED AN INCH OF RAIN OR LESS ON THURSDAY...EXCEPT IN EXTREME EASTERN DICKENSON COUNTY...AND WITH FFG VALUES AROUND AN INCH IN AN HOUR TO 2 INCHES IN 6...DO NOT THINK FLOODING WILL BE AN ISSUE HERE SO WILL PULL DOWN THE FLOOD WATCH FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT. PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 159 AM EDT FRI SEP 1 2006/ AVIATION /06Z TO 06Z/... MVFR TO IFR CONDITIONS MUCH OF THE TIME IN RAIN THIS PACKAGE. BAND OF RAIN ALONG OH RIVER NOT DIRECTLY ASSOCIATED WITH ERNESTO WILL KEEP HTS IFR MUCH OF THE NIGHT...EVEN LIFR AT TIMES...WHILE PKB GOES FROM VFR TO MVFR AND AT TIMES IFR. CRW AND EKN REMAIN IN A BREAK OVERNIGHT...FLUCTUATING BETWEEN VFR AND MVFR/IFR. BKW WILL REMAIN IFR MUCH OF THE TIME WITH OCCASIONAL LIFR. RAIN FROM ERNESTO WILL AFFECT EKN AND BKW TOWARD DAWN AND DURING THE DAY FRIDAY INTO FRIDAY NIGHT...RESULTING IN IFR TO LIFR CONDITIONS MUCH OF THE TIME. CONDITIONS DURING THE DAY FRIDAY AND INTO FRIDAY NIGHT WILL BE PRIMARILY MVFR TO AT TIMES IFR. AS ERNESTO TRACKS N THROUGH VA LATE FRIDAY INTO FRIDAY NIGHT...FLOW WILL GO FROM NE TO N TO NW. THIS UPSLOPE FLOW WILL RESULT IN MVFR TO IFR CONDITIONS AT LEAST ON CIGS ALL SITES. && .RLX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WV...FLOOD WATCH FOR WVZ035>038-046-047 UNTIL 8 AM SATURDAY. OH...NONE. KY...NONE. VA...NONE. && AVIATION...TRM
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 403 AM EDT FRI SEP 1 2006 KYZ101>103-105-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-VAZ003-004-WVZ005>011- 013>020-024>034-039-040-020815- GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE KY-PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON- JACKSON OH-VINTON-MEIGS-GALLIA-LAWRENCE OH-DICKENSON-BUCHANAN- WAYNE-CABELL-MASON-JACKSON WV-WOOD-PLEASANTS-TYLER-LINCOLN-PUTNAM- KANAWHA-ROANE-WIRT-CALHOUN-RITCHIE-DODDRIDGE-MINGO-LOGAN-BOONE- CLAY-BRAXTON-GILMER-LEWIS-HARRISON-TAYLOR-MCDOWELL-WYOMING-UPSHUR- BARBOUR- 403 AM EDT FRI SEP 1 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...SOUTHEAST OHIO...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. WVZ035>038-046-047-020815- RALEIGH-FAYETTE-NICHOLAS-WEBSTER-POCAHONTAS-RANDOLPH- 403 AM EDT FRI SEP 1 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN MOUNTAINS OF WEST VIRGINIA FROM 8 AM TODAY TO 8 AM SATURDAY. AS THE REMNANTS OF ERNESTO MOVE NORTHWARD...RAIN ASSOCIATED WITH IT WILL SPREAD WESTWARD INTO OUR NORTHERN AND CENTRAL MOUNTAINS THIS MORNING. THE RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THIS EVENING...BEFORE TAPERING OFF OVERNIGHT TONIGHT. WITH THE AREA ALREADY WET...AND ONE TO TWO INCHES RAINFALL EXPECTED FROM THE REMNANTS OF ERNESTO...WE WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF WATER PROBLEMS THROUGH TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT. TRM
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Rains of 2 to 2.5 inches fell in over 12 hours causing small streams to flood in the western portion of the county. Rush Creek and Trace Creek flooded fields and roads. No damage to homes was reported.
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