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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Apr 19, 2011, 5:09 AM EDT for Greenup County, Kentucky. It was in force for 36 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 19, 2011, 5:09 AM EDT (09:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2011, 5:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
County Greenup County, KY
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:11 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 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 1872 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 360 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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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 19, 4:49 AM EDT, 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 4:49 AM EDT, 20 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 441 AM EDT TUE APR 19 2011 VAZ003-004-WVZ024>028-032>040-046-047-200845- DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-MINGO-LOGAN-BOONE-CLAY-BRAXTON-TAYLOR-MCDOWELL- WYOMING-RALEIGH-FAYETTE-NICHOLAS-WEBSTER-UPSHUR-BARBOUR-POCAHONTAS- RANDOLPH- 441 AM EDT TUE APR 19 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. KYZ101>103-105-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-WVZ005>011-013>020-029>031- 200845- GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE-PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON-JACKSON- VINTON-MEIGS-GALLIA-WAYNE-CABELL-MASON-WOOD-PLEASANTS-TYLER-LINCOLN- PUTNAM-KANAWHA-ROANE-WIRT-CALHOUN-RITCHIE-DODDRIDGE-GILMER-LEWIS- HARRISON- 441 AM EDT TUE APR 19 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...SOUTHEAST OHIO...CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA...SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. RAIN AMOUNTS WILL BE MONITORED BOTH THIS MORNING AND AGAIN OVERNIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY. IF REPETITIVE SHOWERS APPEAR MORE LIKELY OVER PREVIOUSLY WET COUNTIES...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH...OR SHORT FUSE FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS...MAY BE POSTED. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS MORNING...THEN AGAIN OVERNIGHT TONIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING. STRONG WIND GUSTS OR LARGE HAIL ARE THE PRIMARY THREATS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. RAIN AMOUNTS WILL BE MONITORED INTO WEDNESDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY MORNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 19, 5:00 AM EDT, 9 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 4:48 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RLX | Barbour, Braxton, Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison and 11 more | 13 hr |
| Apr 19, 6:47 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Jackson, Mason, Putnam, Roane, Wirt | 43 min |
| Apr 19, 7:20 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Cabell, Mason | 25 min |
| Apr 19, 9:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Barbour, Randolph, Upshur | 28 min |
| Apr 19, 12:09 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Harrison | 4 hr |
| Apr 19, 12:14 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Doddridge | 4 hr |
| Apr 19, 12:18 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Barbour, Taylor | 4 hr |
| Apr 19, 1:05 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Gilmer, Ritchie, Wirt | 4 hr |
| Apr 19, 3:50 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Barbour, Taylor | 2 hr |
| Apr 19, 4:08 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Harrison | 2 hr |
| Apr 19, 5:51 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Lawrence | 49 min |
| Apr 19, 10:06 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Athens | 4 hr |
| Apr 19, 2:43 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Athens | 3 hr |
| Apr 19, 2:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Morgan, Perry | 40 min |
| Apr 19, 3:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Morgan, Washington | 38 min |
| Apr 19, 3:37 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Perry | 3 hr |
| Apr 19, 4:31 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | RLX | Athens | 67 hr |
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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.