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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Apr 8, 2011, 2:16 PM EDT for Kanawha County, Putnam County, West Virginia. It was in force for 44 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
- Apr 8, 2011, 2:16 PM EDT (18:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 2011, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
Counties Kanawha County, WV, Putnam County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:17 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 722 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 337 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 445 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 Apr 8, 1:55 PM EDT, 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 8, 1:55 PM EDT, 21 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Apr 8, 2:16 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 216 PM EDT FRI APR 8 2011 WVZ014-015-081900- KANAWHA WV-PUTNAM WV- 216 PM EDT FRI APR 8 2011 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL PUTNAM AND NORTHERN KANAWHA COUNTIES... AT 213 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES WEST OF NITRO...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. WIND GUSTS TO 40 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 NITRO AROUND 230 PM...SOUTH CHARLESTON AROUND 240 PM AND PINCH AROUND 250 PM. THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING INTERSTATES...I-64 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 32 AND 57 IN WEST VIRGINIA...I-77 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 96 AND 113 IN WEST VIRGINIA...I-79 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 1 AND 17...THE WEST VIRGINIA TURNPIKE BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 92 AND 95. PLEASE REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. LAT...LON 3851 8205 3852 8138 3823 8143 3837 8205 30
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 3:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Kanawha, Nicholas | 45 min |
| Apr 8, 3:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Cabell, Mason | 62 min |
| Apr 8, 3:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson, Mason, Putnam | 41 min |
| Apr 8, 3:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Wayne | 54 min |
| Apr 8, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Nicholas, Roane | 48 min |
| Apr 8, 4:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Clay, Jackson, Kanawha, Nicholas, Putnam and 1 more | 68 min |
| Apr 8, 4:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Kanawha, Mason, Putnam | 59 min |
| Apr 8, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Cabell, Lincoln, Logan, Wayne | 46 min |
| Apr 8, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Putnam | 44 min |
| Apr 8, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Nicholas, Pocahontas, Webster | 32 min |
| Apr 8, 5:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Clay, Fayette, Kanawha, Nicholas, Pocahontas, Webster | 57 min |
| Apr 8, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Logan, Mingo, Raleigh, Wyoming | 51 min |
| Apr 8, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Raleigh | 17 min |
| Apr 8, 5:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell, Raleigh, Wyoming | 54 min |
| Apr 8, 7:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Wayne | 32 min |
| Apr 8, 7:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Boone | 44 min |
| Apr 8, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Lincoln, Logan, Mingo, Wayne | 51 min |
| Apr 8, 3:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Gallia, Meigs | 56 min |
| Apr 8, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Buchanan, Dickenson | 48 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.