Runoff from heavy rains across eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania caused a strong rise on the Ohio River.
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Runoff from heavy rains across eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania caused a strong rise on the Ohio River.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Mar 17, 2:59 PM EST, 3 hours 1 minute earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 359 PM EDT SAT MAR 17 2007 .SYNOPSIS... SNOW SHOWERS END TONIGHT WITH LINGERING FLURRIES IN THE MOUNTAINS SUNDAY MORNING. WARM WEATHER RETURNS FOR EARLY NEXT WEEK WITH A CHANCE OF RAIN MONDAY WITH AN APPROACHING FRONT. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH SUNDAY/... SHSN ARE WINDING DOWN W OF THE OH RVR AS THE HEART OF THE UPR AIR DISTURBANCE CONTS TO PASS. THE BACKED EDGE OF THE CLDS ARE MOVING ACROSS NRN OH ATT AND EXPECT THEM TO REACH WRN ZNS THIS EVNG. CLEARING REACHES I-79 CORRIDOR AFT MDNGT...BUT CLDS WILL BE STUBBORN IN THE MTNS...NOT VACATING UNTIL LATER SUN. NIGHT TIME SN ACCUM WILL BE ANOTHER 1-2 INCHES. SO FAR...2-4 INCHES HAVE BEEN REPORT THROUGHOUT THE NRN WV MTNS. NOT MUCH CHANGE IN THE FCST SUN WITH ANTICYCLONIC FLOW AND LLVL WAA. CONTD FLURRIES IN THE FAVORED UPSLOPE AREAS THRU SUN MRNG...BUT DO NOT EXPECT ANY DAYTIME SN ACCUM. && .SHORT TERM /SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY/... 850HPA THERMAL RIDGE WILL BUILD INTO THE REGION ALLOWING FOR A QUICK WARM UP FROM A RATHER CHILLY WEEKEND. SCALED BACK THE TIMING OF THE WARM SECTOR PRECIPITATION REACHING THE WESTERN AND NORTHWESTERN ZONES UNTIL MONDAY AFTERNOON. WILL NEED TO WATCH FOR A LITTLE ISENTROPIC LIFT OCCURRING PRIOR TO 18Z MONDAY...BUT WILL KEEP ANY POPS OUT OF THE ZONES FOR NOW. LOOKING AT ANOTHER POSSIBLE SCENARIO WHERE THE SUBSEQUENT COLD FRONT MOVING IN FROM THE NORTHWEST WILL SLOW DOWN OR STALL OUT BRIEFLY ACROSS THE SOUTHERN ZONES MONDAY NIGHT. WILL LOOK FOR SOME SLOW CLEARING NORTH TO SOUTH INTO TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. && .LONG TERM /TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY/... ROLLED WITH HPC POPS WITH MINOR TIMING ADJUSTMENTS. A FRONT NEAR S PORTION OF AREA AT START OF PERIOD MOVES N THROUGH THE AREA DAY 4 NECESSITATING POPS. HIGH PRESSURE SETS UP OFF E COAST FOR DAYS 5 AND 6 AS HEIGHTS BUILD ALOFT. PC DRAGS A SURFACE FRONT S TOWARD N PORTION OF AREA LATER ON DAY 6. THIS IS CLOSER TO ECMWF THAN CURRENT GFS AND RESULTS IN CHANCE POPS N INTO SAY 7. NO SIGNIFICANT DEVIATIONS FROM HPC TEMPERATURES BUT DID SLOW DOWN POPS NE PART OF THE AREA WED MORNING TO AVOID SNOW OR RAIN WITH LOWS IN THE 20S IN THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS. WILL LIKELY SEE TEMPERATURES RISE TOWARD DAWN WEDNESDAY OF PRECIPITATION IS INDEED FASTER. && .AVIATION /20Z SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY/... CIGS AND VIS BOUNCING ALL OVER THE PLACE AS CONVECTIVE SHSN BRING IFR TO LIFR CONDS. AS THE WE LOOSE THE DAYTIME INSTABILITY...EXPECT CONDS TO IMPROVE TO MVFR WITH LTL FLUCTUATION IN A SHSN. VFR WX REACHES PKB AND HTS ARND 3Z THEN SPREADS TO CKB AND CRW ARND 6Z. ALLOWED MVFR CLDS THRU SUN MRNG IN THE MTNS AS NW WINDS KEEP STRATOCU IN PLACE. ANY SHSN TMRW WL BE AT EKN/BKW/AND PERHAPS CKB...BUT DO NOT EXPECT ANYTHING LWR THAN MVFR. AVIATION OUTLOOK... SHORT TERM/ NO SIG WX XPCTD. LONG TERM/ NO SIG WX XPCTD && .RLX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WV...SNOW ADVISORY UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR WVZ038-046-047. OH...NONE. KY...NONE. VA...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...29 NEAR TERM...29 SHORT TERM...26 LONG TERM...TRM AVIATION...29
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 502 AM EDT SAT MAR 17 2007 KYZ101>103-105-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-VAZ003-004-WVZ005>011- 013>020-024>037-039-040-180915- 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- RALEIGH-FAYETTE-NICHOLAS-UPSHUR-BARBOUR- 502 AM EDT SAT MAR 17 2007 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...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. WVZ038-046-047-180915- WEBSTER-POCAHONTAS-RANDOLPH- 502 AM EDT SAT MAR 17 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A SNOW ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM THIS EVENING. 2 TO 4 INCHES OF SNOW ARE POSSIBLE...WITH SOME HIGHER ACCUMULATIONS IN THE HIGHEST ELEVATIONS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Minor flooding of roads occurred along the Ohio River and up feeder streams. The Point Pleasant river gauge crested near 41.5 feet on the morning of the 18th. Flood stage is 40 feet.
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