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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV

April 16, 2011Wayne County, West Virginia; Lawrence County, Ohio; Boyd County, Greenup County, Lawrence County, Kentucky

NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Apr 16, 2011, 3:30 AM EDT for Wayne County, West Virginia; Lawrence County, Ohio; Boyd County, Greenup County, Lawrence County, Kentucky. 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 16, 2011, 3:30 AM EDT (07:30 UTC)
Expired: Apr 16, 2011, 4:15 AM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV

Counties Boyd County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lawrence County, OH, Wayne County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 143 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1142 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 182 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 385 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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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 16, 2:25 AM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 16, 2:25 AM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 15, 12:10 PM EDT, 15 hours 20 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 16, 3:30 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
330 AM EDT SAT APR 16 2011

KYZ101>103-105-OHZ083-086-087-WVZ005-006-024-160815-
BOYD KY-CABELL WV-CARTER KY-GALLIA OH-GREENUP KY-JACKSON OH-
LAWRENCE OH-LAWRENCE KY-MINGO WV-WAYNE WV-
330 AM EDT SAT APR 16 2011

...SHOWERS WITH WIND GUSTS WILL AFFECT BOYD...EASTERN
CARTER...EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL JACKSON... GREENUP...
LAWRENCE...NORTHWESTERN MINGO...WAYNE...WEST CENTRAL CABELL AND WEST
CENTRAL GALLIA COUNTIES...

AT 323 AM EDT...SHOWERS WITH STRONG WIND GUSTS WERE ALONG A LINE FROM
WEST PORTSMOUTH TO BLAINE TO 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF HINDMAN...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE SHOWERS.

THESE SHOWERS WILL IMPACT GRAYS BRANCH...RUSH...GREENUP...
ULYSSES...PRINCESS...NAPLES...COALTON...MAVITY... FALLSBURG AND
YATESVILLE LAKE STATE PARK.

THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING INTERSTATES...I-64 BETWEEN MILE
MARKERS 167 AND 191 IN KENTUCKY...AND BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 1 AND 11
IN WEST VIRGINIA.

THE COMBINATION OF WET GROUND AND THESE GUSTY WINDS MAY BE ENOUGH TO
BRING SOME WEAK TREES AND BRANCHES DOWN.

HEAVY RAIN FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE BRIEF.  HOWEVER...THE RAIN MAY
RESULT IN SOME PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS.

PLEASE REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.

LAT...LON 3873 8303 3876 8289 3859 8284 3859 8276
      3868 8277 3869 8271 3884 8266 3887 8277
      3887 8276 3887 8247 3768 8229 3788 8243
      3795 8252 3788 8263 3799 8298 3805 8299
      3812 8290 3817 8292 3819 8301 3863 8308

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 16, 7:26 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Cabell, Mason, Putnam	34 min
Apr 16, 8:26 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Cabell, Lincoln, Logan, Mason, Mingo, Putnam and 1 more	3 hr
Apr 16, 8:57 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Boone, Logan, Mingo	33 min
Apr 16, 9:51 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Calhoun, Clay, Kanawha, Nicholas, Roane	24 min
Apr 16, 10:17 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge, Gilmer, Pleasants and 2 more	28 min
Apr 16, 10:46 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Braxton, Doddridge, Harrison, Lewis, Tyler, Upshur	29 min
Apr 16, 11:03 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Cabell, Lincoln, Mason, Putnam	87 min
Apr 16, 1:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Barbour	25 min
Apr 16, 1:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Webster	36 min
Apr 16, 2:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Pocahontas	32 min
Apr 16, 11:39 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	RLX	Carter, Greenup	2 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Kentucky, 2011 Special Weather Statements in West Virginia, 2011 Special Weather Statements in Ohio, 2011 Every special weather statement in 2011

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.