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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 2010, 6:01 PM EDT for 5 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 45 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 17, 2010, 6:01 PM EDT (22:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 2010, 6:46 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Boone County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Wayne County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 221 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2000 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 949 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 17, 4:56 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 4:56 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 418 PM EDT SAT JUL 17 2010 KYZ105-VAZ003-004-WVZ005-013>016-018-020-024>040-046-047-182030- LAWRENCE KY-DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-WAYNE-LINCOLN-PUTNAM-KANAWHA-ROANE- CALHOUN-DODDRIDGE-MINGO-LOGAN-BOONE-CLAY-BRAXTON-GILMER-LEWIS- HARRISON-TAYLOR-MCDOWELL-WYOMING-RALEIGH-FAYETTE-NICHOLAS-WEBSTER- UPSHUR-BARBOUR-POCAHONTAS-RANDOLPH- 418 PM EDT SAT JUL 17 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND MUCH OF WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...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 IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. KYZ101>103-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-WVZ006>011-017-019-182030- GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON-JACKSON OH-VINTON- MEIGS-GALLIA-LAWRENCE OH-CABELL-MASON-JACKSON WV-WOOD-PLEASANTS- TYLER-WIRT-RITCHIE- 418 PM EDT SAT JUL 17 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...SOUTHEAST OHIO...CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY. THE MAIN THREAT IS FOR LOCALLY DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
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Special weather statement, Jul 17, 4:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
421 PM EDT SAT JUL 17 2010
KYZ102-103-105-OHZ087-WVZ005-172045-
BOYD KY-CARTER KY-LAWRENCE OH-LAWRENCE KY-WAYNE WV-
421 PM EDT SAT JUL 17 2010
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT BOYD...EAST CENTRAL CARTER...
NORTH CENTRAL LAWRENCE...NORTHWESTERN WAYNE AND SOUTH CENTRAL
LAWRENCE COUNTIES...
AT 417 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTH OF
CANNONSBURG...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND HAIL UP TO DIME SIZE ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM. VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THIS STORM...AND WILL CAUSE
WATER TO POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES AND SMALL
STREAMS.
THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR MAVITY AROUND 425 PM...DURBIN AROUND 435
PM...LOCKWOOD AROUND 440 PM AND CENTERVILLE AROUND 445 PM.
THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING INTERSTATES
I-64 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 180 AND 191 IN KENTUCKY...AND BETWEEN MILE
MARKERS 1 AND 6 IN WEST VIRGINIA.
PLEASE REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.
LAT...LON 3835 8285 3846 8243 3843 8242 3840 8249
3834 8239 3825 8236 3818 8279
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Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 10:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Pleasants, Tyler | 54 min |
| Jul 17, 6:14 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Cabell, Wayne | 46 min |
| Jul 17, 6:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Lincoln, Putnam, Wayne | 46 min |
| Jul 17, 7:15 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Boone, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, Mason, Putnam | 60 min |
| Jul 17, 7:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Clay, Fayette, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln and 3 more | 40 min |
| Jul 17, 8:31 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Braxton, Clay, Fayette, Nicholas, Raleigh, Roane and 2 more | 59 min |
| Jul 17, 8:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette, Nicholas | 34 min |
| Jul 17, 9:25 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Pocahontas, Webster | 65 min |
| Jul 17, 10:58 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Barbour | 32 min |
| Jul 17, 5:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Wayne | 25 min |
| Jul 17, 5:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Lincoln | 34 min |
| Jul 17, 6:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Lincoln | 28 min |
| Jul 17, 6:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Lincoln, Wayne | 31 min |
| Jul 17, 5:22 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Carter, Greenup | 53 min |
| Jul 17, 4:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Boyd | 24 min |
| Jul 17, 5:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Greenup | 30 min |
| Jul 17, 5:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Greenup | 32 min |
| Jul 17, 6:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Boyd | 36 min |
| Jul 17, 7:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Greenup | 28 min |
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.