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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Mar 23, 2011, 1:48 PM EDT for Boyd County, Kentucky. It was in force for 27 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 23, 2011, 1:48 PM EDT (17:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 23, 2011, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
County Boyd County, KY
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:51 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, 5.8 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1527 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 311 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 327 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 23, 11:00 AM EDT, 2 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 23, 11:00 AM EDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 23, 1:27 PM EDT, 21 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 127 PM EDT WED MAR 23 2011 KYZ101>103-105-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-VAZ003-004-WVZ005>011- 013>020-024>040-046-047-241730- 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- 127 PM EDT WED MAR 23 2011 ...TORNADO WATCH 55 IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING... 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. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. TORNADO WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 23, 1:48 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
148 PM EDT WED MAR 23 2011
KYZ101>103-OHZ087-WVZ005-231815-
BOYD KY-CARTER KY-GREENUP KY-LAWRENCE OH-WAYNE WV-
148 PM EDT WED MAR 23 2011
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT BOYD...EAST CENTRAL CARTER...
NORTHWESTERN WAYNE...SOUTHEASTERN GREENUP AND SOUTHERN LAWRENCE
COUNTIES...
AT 146 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 3 MILES NORTH OF
GRAYSON...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.
WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND HAIL UP TO DIME SIZE ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR CATLETTSBURG AROUND 200 PM AND SOUTH POINT
AROUND 210 PM.
THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING INTERSTATES...I-64 BETWEEN MILE
MARKERS 169 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 3861 8242 3844 8238 3841 8249 3836 8242
3836 8243 3833 8303 3845 8304
30The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 2:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Mason | 40 min |
| Mar 23, 3:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Harrison, Taylor | 30 min |
| Mar 23, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell, Raleigh, Wyoming | 25 min |
| Mar 23, 4:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wood | 72 min |
| Mar 23, 4:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wood | 38 min |
| Mar 23, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Pleasants, Ritchie, Tyler, Wood | 50 min |
| Mar 23, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Jackson, Mason, Wayne | 47 min |
| Mar 23, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay, Jackson, Kanawha and 5 more | 69 min |
| Mar 23, 5:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Lincoln, Logan, Mingo, Wayne | 67 min |
| Mar 23, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison, Jackson and 5 more | 55 min |
| Mar 23, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Barbour, Harrison, Pocahontas, Randolph, Taylor, Upshur | 81 min |
| Mar 23, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Clay, Nicholas, Pocahontas, Randolph, Upshur and 1 more | 74 min |
| Mar 23, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Fayette, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, Mingo and 2 more | 82 min |
| Mar 23, 6:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 42 min |
| Mar 23, 6:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell, Wyoming | 78 min |
| Mar 23, 3:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Athens, Vinton | 64 min |
| Mar 23, 3:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Morgan, Perry | 44 min |
| Mar 23, 4:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Lawrence | 25 min |
Nearby
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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.