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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Apr 9, 2011, 1:57 PM EDT for Buchanan County, Virginia. It was in force for 63 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 9, 2011, 1:57 PM EDT (17:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 9, 2011, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
County Buchanan County, VA
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:00 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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 235 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
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 460 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 271 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 9, 12:57 PM EDT, 1 hour earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 9, 12:57 PM EDT, 1 hour before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 9, 5:05 AM EDT, 8 hours 52 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 505 AM EDT SAT APR 9 2011 KYZ101>103-105-OHZ083-086-087-VAZ003-004-WVZ005>008-013>016-024>027- 033>037-100915- GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE-JACKSON-GALLIA-DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-WAYNE- CABELL-MASON-LINCOLN-PUTNAM-KANAWHA-ROANE-MINGO-LOGAN-BOONE-CLAY- MCDOWELL-WYOMING-RALEIGH-FAYETTE-NICHOLAS- 505 AM EDT SAT APR 9 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...SOUTHEAST OHIO...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA...SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. STRONG TO POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS COULD AFFECT THE AREA MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. OHZ066-067-075-076-084-085-WVZ009>011-017>020-028>032-038>040-046- 047-100915- PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON-VINTON-MEIGS-WOOD-PLEASANTS-TYLER- WIRT-CALHOUN-RITCHIE-DODDRIDGE-BRAXTON-GILMER-LEWIS-HARRISON-TAYLOR- WEBSTER-UPSHUR-BARBOUR-POCAHONTAS-RANDOLPH- 505 AM EDT SAT APR 9 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OHIO...CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA AND NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. STRONG TO POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS COULD AFFECT THE AREA MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 9, 12:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
1230 PM EDT SAT APR 9 2011
KYZ101>103-105-WVZ005-091730-
BOYD KY-CARTER KY-GREENUP KY-LAWRENCE KY-WAYNE WV-
1230 PM EDT SAT APR 9 2011
...THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT BOYD...CARTER...GREENUP...NORTHERN
LAWRENCE AND NORTHWESTERN WAYNE COUNTIES...
AT 1228 PM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG A LINE FROM 35 MILES
NORTHWEST OF MOREHEAD TO 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF MOREHEAD TO MOREHEAD
TO 4 MILES NORTH OF WEST LIBERTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND HAIL UP TO NICKEL SIZE ARE POSSIBLE WITH
THESE STORMS. VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THESE STORMS...AND WILL
CAUSE WATER TO POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES AND
SMALL STREAMS.
THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR GLOBE AROUND 1245 PM...GRAHN AROUND 100
PM...HOPEWELL AROUND 115 PM AND WURTLAND AROUND 130 PM.
THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING INTERSTATES...I-64 BETWEEN MILE
MARKERS 149 AND 191 IN KENTUCKY...AND BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 1 AND 5 IN
WEST VIRGINIA.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE ELEVATED LEVELS ON
SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...AND PONDING OF WATER IN URBAN AREAS...
HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER POOR DRAINAGE
AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.
PLEASE REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.
LAT...LON 3834 8324 3842 8324 3856 8310 3872 8304
3876 8289 3859 8284 3854 8270 3847 8261
3842 8260 3841 8253 3824 8236 3799 8302
3803 8301 3811 8290 3817 8292 3818 8306
3826 8316 3819 8327 3832 8334
30Special weather statement, Apr 9, 1:57 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
157 PM EDT SAT APR 9 2011
VAZ003-004-WVZ033-091900-
BUCHANAN VA-DICKENSON VA-MCDOWELL WV-
157 PM EDT SAT APR 9 2011
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT BUCHANAN...NORTHERN DICKENSON
AND WESTERN MCDOWELL COUNTIES...
AT 155 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES NORTHWEST
OF CLINTWOOD...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND HAIL UP TO NICKEL 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. EXPECT INTENSE LIGHTNING FROM THIS STORM. DO NOT STAY
IN THE OPEN NOR SEEK SHELTER UNDER TREES WHEN LIGHTNING THREATENS...
MOVE INDOORS WHEN A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES.
THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR BREAKS INTERSTATE PARK AROUND 215 PM...GRUNDY
AROUND 230 PM AND STACY AROUND 245 PM.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE ELEVATED LEVELS ON
SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...AND PONDING OF WATER IN URBAN AREAS...
HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER POOR DRAINAGE
AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.
PLEASE REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.
LAT...LON 3720 8256 3721 8255 3727 8235 3747 8208
3751 8182 3750 8181 3720 8176 3718 8179
3716 8187 3716 8255
30The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 8:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Logan, McDowell, Mingo, Wyoming | 55 min |
| Apr 8, 8:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Fayette, Kanawha, Raleigh | 35 min |
| Apr 8, 8:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lincoln, Logan, Mingo, Wayne | 36 min |
| Apr 8, 8:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wayne | 44 min |
| Apr 8, 8:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Logan, Mingo | 25 min |
| Apr 8, 8:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell, Wyoming | 51 min |
| Apr 8, 9:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Logan, McDowell, Mingo, Wyoming | 42 min |
| Apr 8, 10:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | McDowell, Mingo, Wyoming | 68 min |
| Apr 9, 1:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wayne | 48 min |
| Apr 9, 2:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Lincoln, Logan, Wayne | 64 min |
| Apr 9, 2:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell | 57 min |
| Apr 9, 2:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Logan, Mingo | 54 min |
| Apr 9, 2:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Logan, McDowell, Mingo, Raleigh, Wyoming | 62 min |
| Apr 9, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan | 29 min |
| Apr 9, 3:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Boone, Fayette, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, McDowell and 3 more | 27 min |
| Apr 9, 3:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell | 65 min |
| Apr 9, 3:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Boone, Fayette, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, Mingo and 3 more | 86 min |
| Apr 9, 4:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Raleigh, Wyoming | 52 min |
| Apr 9, 4:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boone, Lincoln, Logan | 4 hr |
| Apr 9, 4:26 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wyoming | 2 hr |
| Apr 9, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell, Raleigh, Wyoming | 30 min |
| Apr 9, 12:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Boyd, Carter, Greenup | 60 min |
| Apr 8, 10:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Buchanan, Dickenson | 53 min |
| Apr 8, 11:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Dickenson | 30 min |
| Apr 9, 12:03 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Buchanan, Dickenson | 42 min |
| Apr 9, 3:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Buchanan, Dickenson | 66 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.