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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at May 26, 2011, 2:15 AM EDT for Morgan County, Perry County, Ohio. It was in force for 60 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 26, 2011, 2:15 AM EDT (06:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2011, 3:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
Counties Morgan County, OH, Perry County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:14 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 1430 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1362 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 8.2
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 May 26, 1:42 AM EDT, 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 1:42 AM EDT, 33 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 26, 1:33 AM EDT, 42 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 8:02 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Randolph | 73 min |
| May 26, 3:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Lewis | 52 min |
| May 26, 3:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Pocahontas | 40 min |
| May 26, 3:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 48 min |
| May 26, 4:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Harrison | 25 min |
| May 26, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 41 min |
| May 26, 4:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 66 min |
| May 26, 5:16 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 3 hr |
| May 26, 5:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | McDowell | 51 min |
| May 26, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell, Wyoming | 66 min |
| May 26, 6:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Fayette, Raleigh, Wyoming | 54 min |
| May 26, 7:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Braxton, Lewis, Nicholas, Webster | 59 min |
| May 26, 7:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Boone, Lincoln, Logan, Mingo | 42 min |
| May 26, 1:33 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Athens, Jackson, Morgan, Perry, Vinton | 27 min |
| May 26, 7:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Jackson | 36 min |
| May 26, 3:11 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Carter, Greenup | 49 min |
| May 26, 7:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Boyd, Carter, Greenup | 39 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.