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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Mar 21, 2011, 2:34 PM EDT for Perry County, Ohio. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 21, 2011, 2:34 PM EDT (18:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 21, 2011, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
County Perry County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -199 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1258 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 496 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 479 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Mar 21, 2:04 PM EDT, 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 21, 2:04 PM EDT, 30 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1122 AM EDT MON MAR 21 2011 KYZ101>103-105-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-VAZ003-004-WVZ005>011- 013>020-024>040-046-047-221530- GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE-PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON-JACKSON- VINTON-MEIGS-GALLIA-DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-WAYNE-CABELL-MASON-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-WEBSTER-UPSHUR- BARBOUR-POCAHONTAS-RANDOLPH- 1122 AM EDT MON MAR 21 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...SOUTHEAST OHIO...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA...SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON INTO WEDNESDAY EVENING. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 21, 2:34 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
234 PM EDT MON MAR 21 2011
OHZ066-067-211900-
MORGAN OH-PERRY OH-
234 PM EDT MON MAR 21 2011
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHERN PERRY AND NORTHWESTERN
MORGAN COUNTIES...
AT 231 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER SOMERSET...
MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND HAIL UP TO DIME SIZE ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR PERRY STATE FOREST AROUND 245 PM...
CROOKSVILLE AROUND 255 PM AND EAGLEPORT AROUND 300 PM.
PLEASE REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.
LAT...LON 3982 8216 3982 8208 3981 8207 3977 8206
3977 8186 3976 8184 3969 8185 3976 8240
3988 8241 3989 8215
10The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 21, 4:25 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Randolph, Upshur | 35 min |
| Mar 21, 5:39 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Barbour, Lewis, Taylor | 36 min |
| Mar 21, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Pleasants, Ritchie, Tyler | 25 min |
| Mar 21, 3:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Harrison, Pleasants, Ritchie, Tyler | 47 min |
| Mar 21, 3:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Pleasants | 29 min |
| Mar 21, 4:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Barbour | 26 min |
| Mar 21, 4:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Barbour | 42 min |
| Mar 21, 5:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Lewis, Randolph, Upshur | 43 min |
| Mar 21, 5:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mason | 38 min |
| Mar 21, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph, Upshur | 47 min |
| Mar 21, 5:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Calhoun, Gilmer, Lewis | 45 min |
| Mar 21, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Roane, Wirt | 41 min |
| Mar 21, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson, Mason, Roane | 48 min |
| Mar 21, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Mason, Wayne | 44 min |
| Mar 21, 7:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Nicholas, Pocahontas, Webster | 41 min |
| Mar 21, 7:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Wayne | 34 min |
| Mar 21, 4:11 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Athens | 34 min |
| Mar 21, 2:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Washington | 24 min |
| Mar 21, 3:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Morgan, Washington | 28 min |
| Mar 21, 4:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Athens | 41 min |
| Mar 21, 5:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lawrence | 43 min |
| Mar 21, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Morgan, Perry | 44 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.