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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at May 22, 2011, 2:48 PM EDT for Boyd County, Carter 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
- May 22, 2011, 2:48 PM EDT (18:48 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2011, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
Counties Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:52 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, 6.8 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
- 460 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 720 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 May 22, 2:18 PM EDT, 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 22, 2:18 PM EDT, 30 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 22, 3:51 AM EDT, 10 hours 57 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 351 AM EDT SUN MAY 22 2011 WVZ010-011-019-020-028>032-038>040-046-047-230800- PLEASANTS-TYLER-RITCHIE-DODDRIDGE-BRAXTON-GILMER-LEWIS-HARRISON- TAYLOR-WEBSTER-UPSHUR-BARBOUR-POCAHONTAS-RANDOLPH- 351 AM EDT SUN MAY 22 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA AND NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. THE AREA IS IN A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY AFTERNOON INTO MONDAY EVENING. THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. AREAS THAT RECEIVE REPEATED HEAVY RAINFALL FROM THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO NEED TO BE MONITORED FOR LOCALIZED WATER PROBLEMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. KYZ101>103-105-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-VAZ003-004-WVZ005>009- 013>018-024>027-033>037-230800- GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE-PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON-JACKSON- VINTON-MEIGS-GALLIA-DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-WAYNE-CABELL-MASON-WOOD- LINCOLN-PUTNAM-KANAWHA-ROANE-WIRT-CALHOUN-MINGO-LOGAN-BOONE-CLAY- MCDOWELL-WYOMING-RALEIGH-FAYETTE-NICHOLAS- 351 AM EDT SUN MAY 22 2011 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...TODAY AND TONIGHT. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. THE AREA IS IN A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY AFTERNOON INTO MONDAY EVENING...AS WELL AS FOR TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE MAIN THREATS EACH DAY WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. AREAS THAT RECEIVE REPEATED HEAVY RAINFALL FROM THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO NEED TO BE MONITORED FOR LOCALIZED WATER PROBLEMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 22, 2:48 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
248 PM EDT SUN MAY 22 2011
KYZ101>103-105-221915-
BOYD KY-CARTER KY-GREENUP KY-LAWRENCE KY-
248 PM EDT SUN MAY 22 2011
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT BOYD...CARTER...NORTHWESTERN
LAWRENCE AND SOUTHERN GREENUP COUNTIES...
AT 242 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF GRAYSON LAKE STATE PARK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND PEA-SIZED HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR WILLARD AROUND 300 PM...HITCHINS AROUND 305
PM...DENTON AROUND 310 PM AND RUSH AROUND 315 PM.
THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING INTERSTATE...I-64 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS
156 AND 188 IN KENTUCKY.
PLEASE REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.
LAT...LON 3829 8328 3857 8286 3831 8258 3826 8257
3800 8296 3804 8300 3811 8290 3817 8292
3817 8298 3819 8302 3818 8306 3822 8309
3826 8316 3823 8322
14The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 3:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wayne | 59 min |
| May 22, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Putnam, Wayne | 54 min |
| May 22, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell, Wyoming | 65 min |
| May 22, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Lincoln, Putnam, Wayne | 53 min |
| May 22, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wayne | 63 min |
| May 22, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Wayne | 64 min |
| May 22, 5:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lincoln, Logan, Mingo, Wayne | 56 min |
| May 22, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Wayne | 57 min |
| May 22, 6:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wayne | 26 min |
| May 22, 6:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Boone, Lincoln, Logan, Wayne | 35 min |
| May 22, 7:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Fayette, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, Raleigh and 2 more | 56 min |
| May 22, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson, Vinton | 24 min |
| May 22, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Athens, Gallia, Jackson, Meigs, Vinton, Washington | 53 min |
| May 22, 7:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Gallia, Jackson, Lawrence, Vinton | 37 min |
| May 22, 7:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Athens, Jackson, Vinton | 31 min |
| May 22, 4:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Dickenson | 29 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.