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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV

June 9, 2011Cabell County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Jun 9, 2011, 8:19 PM EDT for Cabell County, West Virginia. It was in force for 26 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: Jun 9, 2011, 8:19 PM EDT (00:19 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2011, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV

County Cabell County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:21 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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 167 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: 468 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1996 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

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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 Jun 9, 8:09 PM EDT, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 8:09 PM EDT, 10 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
809 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2011

.SYNOPSIS...
COLD FRONT KEEPS THE THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL GOING THROUGH SATURDAY.
COOLER AND DRIER WITH HIGH PRESSURE IN THE WAKE OF THE COLD FRONT
SUNDAY THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK.

&&

.NEAR TERM /THROUGH FRIDAY/...
LARGE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM CONVECTION ALL THE WAY UP NEAR CHICAGO
LAST NIGHT...SAILED SE ACROSS FCST AREA EARLIER TODAY...BEFORE
GETTING HUNG UP ACROSS SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE AREA.  THIS IS WHERE
CONVECTION THAT FIRED UP THIS PAST AFTERNOON WAS MOST
PERSISTENT...AND WAS ONGOING ALTHOUGH FADING AS 00Z APPROACHED.
THIS TREND WILL CONTINUE AS THE SUN SETS.

THE FLOOD WATCH FOR SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE AREA WILL LIKELY BE
ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 10 PM IF NOT DROPPED EVEN SOONER.  THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM GOES AT 8 PM.

ONCE THE CONVECTION IS GONE...EXPECT A QUIET THOUGH MUGGY NIGHT
WITH SOME HAZE...ALONG WITH VALLEY MIST.  IN AREAS WHERE IT
RAINED...MAINLY SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE CWA...DENSE VALLEY FOG IS
LIKELY TO DEVELOP.

DO NOT THINK BOUNDARY JUST N OF THE AREA THIS EVENING WILL HAVE MUCH
FARTHER SWD PUSH W OF THE APPALACHIANS...SO EXPECT MUCH OF THE AREA
TO BE S OF THE FRONT FRI.  CONVECTION WILL LIKELY FIRE AGAIN...THIS
TIME WITH THE HIGHER CHANCE FARTHER N...CLOSEST TO THE FRONT.
CONVECTION MAY GET GOING RELATIVELY EARLY FRI DEPENDING UPON TIMING
OF WEAK S/W TROFS ALONG THE SOUTHERN EDGE OF THE WESTERLIES...ABOUT
COINCIDENT WITH THE W-E BOUNDARY JUST TO THE N OF THE AREA.  SPC
FOCUSES SLIGHT RISK FOR FRI TO THE NW...DEEPER INTO THE
WESTERLIES...WHERE THE S/W ENERGY AND SHEAR ARE STRONGER.  THIS AREA
AFFECTS ONLY OUR INTERIOR SE OHIO COUNTIES.

ONLY CAVEAT IS IF COMPLEX FORMS UPSTREAM OVERNIGHT AND THEN SENDS AN
OUTFLOW BOUNDARY INTO THE AREA AGAIN FRI...WHICH WOULD AGAIN
RE-FOCUS CONVECTION NEAR IT.

HAVE LOWER TEMPERATURES FROM THE ONSET TONIGHT S WHERE THE RAIN HAS
COOLED THE AIR CONSIDERABLY.  ACTUALLY LOWS LOOK GOOD AND NO CHANGES
TO HIGHS FRI...WHICH WERE CLOSE TO THE MET...AND A LITTLE LOWER THAN
HIGHS TODAY...ON ACCOUNT OF AM LITTLE MORE CLOUD AND SLIGHTLY LOWER
H85 TEMPERATURES.  RAISED DEW POINTS OVERNIGHT INTO FRI WITH MOST OF
THE AREA STILL S OF THE FRONT.

&&

.SHORT TERM /FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT/...
MODELS INDICATE THE COLD STALLS BRIEFLY ACROSS THE CENTRAL PART OF
OUR AREA...THEN LIFT NORTH AS A WARM FRONT DURING FRIDAY NIGHT. THE
BEST CHANCE FOR CONVECTION FRIDAY NIGHT WILL BE ACROSS THE
NORTH...MORE ON A SCATTERED BASIS WITH LACK OF DIURNAL HEATING.

BY SATURDAY...THE REGION SHOULD BE FIRMLY LOCATED IN THE WARM
SECTOR. HOWEVER...A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE AREA FROM THE
NORTHWEST LATER SATURDAY...AS A VIGOROUS SHORT WAVE DROPS SOUTH
AND EAST. AS A RESULT...EXPECT THUNDERSTORM CHANCES TO BE GREATEST
ACROSS THE NORTHWEST COUNTIES SATURDAY AFTERNOON...WITH A CHANCE OF
THUNDERSTORMS JUST ABOUT ANYWHERE IN THE DAY TIME HEATING. BEST
THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL THEN PROGRESS EAST ACROSS THE AREA
SATURDAY NIGHT WITH THE FRONT.

MUCH BETTER MODEL AGREEMENT ON BEING QUITE PROGRESSIVE WITH THE COLD
FRONT...WITH THE FRONT EXITING OUR AREA BY SUNDAY MORNING.

&&

.LONG TERM /SUNDAY THROUGH THURSDAY/...
EXPECT SHOWERS TO END FROM WEST TO EAST SUNDAY MORNING...BUT HAVE
HELD ONTO POPS FOR MOUNTAIN SHOWERS SUNDAY AFTERNOON WITH A BIT OF
COLD ADVECTION UP SLOPE. MUCH COOLER AND DRIER AIR UNDER CANADIAN
HIGH PRESSURE IS EXPECTED FOR SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH EARLY NEXT
WEEK...NEAR NORMAL TEMPERATURES.

&&

.AVIATION /00Z FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY/...
CONVECTION IS DONE FOR THE EVENING.

HAVE ALL BUT BKW DEVELOPING MVFR FOG AFTER 03Z.  VLIFR DENSE FOG
WILL DEVELOP AFTER 06Z AT EKN...WITH A RETURN TO VFR CONDITIONS BY
12 OR 13Z AS USUAL.  VALLEYS WHERE IT RAINED...ACROSS SOUTHERN
WV...SW VA AND NE KY...COULD SEE IFR FOG AFTER 04Z.

FRI WILL LIKELY BE ANOTHER HAZY DAY.  CONVECTION WILL FIRE UP MAINLY
IN THE AFTERNOON THOUGH CANNOT BE RULED OUT EVEN ANYTIME AFTER
DAYBREAK...WITH FRONT NEARLY STATIONARY ACROSS NORTHERN WV AND
E-CNTRL OHIO.

FLOW WILL BE LIGHT AND VARIABLE AT THE SURFACE AND LIGHT...MAINLY W
ALOFT.

FORECAST CONFIDENCE AND ALTERNATE SCENARIOS THROUGH 00Z SATURDAY...

FORECAST CONFIDENCE: MEDIUM.

ALTERNATE SCENARIOS: TIMING AND EXTENT OF THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT
MAY VARY.  ALSO AREAS THAT SEE RAIN LATER THIS AFTERNOON MAY DEVELOP
MORE FOG THAN FORECAST.

EXPERIMENTAL TABLE OF FLIGHT CATEGORY OBJECTIVELY SHOWS CONSISTENCY
OF WFO FORECAST TO AVAILABLE MODEL INFORMATION:
H = HIGH:   TAF CONSISTENT WITH ALL MODELS OR ALL BUT ONE MODEL.
M = MEDIUM: TAF HAS VARYING LEVEL OF CONSISTENCY WITH MODELS.
L = LOW:    TAF INCONSISTENT WITH ALL MODELS OR ALL BUT ONE MODEL.

DATE                                                            FRI 06/10/11
UTC 1HRLY       00   01   02   03   04   05   06   07   08   09   10   11
EDT 1HRLY       20   21   22   23   00   01   02   03   04   05   06   07
CRW CONSISTENCY  H    H    H    H    M    M    M    M    L    L    M    M
HTS CONSISTENCY  H    H    H    H    M    M    M    M    M    M    M    H
BKW CONSISTENCY  M    H    H    H    H    H    L    H    H    H    H    H
EKN CONSISTENCY  H    H    H    H    M    L    L    M    L    L    L    L
PKB CONSISTENCY  H    H    H    H    M    M    M    M    M    M    M    M
CKB CONSISTENCY  H    H    H    H    M    M    M    M    M    M    M    M

AFTER 00Z SATURDAY...
NO WIDESPREAD IFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED.

&&

.RLX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
WV...NONE.
OH...NONE.
KY...NONE.
VA...NONE.

&&

SYNOPSIS...JEE/JMV/TRM
NEAR TERM...TRM
SHORT TERM...JMV
LONG TERM...JMV
AVIATION...TRM

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 9, 8:15 PM EDT, 4 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
815 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2011

KYZ101>103-105-VAZ003-004-WVZ005-006-013>015-024>028-033>039-046-047-
110015-
GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE-DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-WAYNE-CABELL-LINCOLN-
PUTNAM-KANAWHA-MINGO-LOGAN-BOONE-CLAY-BRAXTON-MCDOWELL-WYOMING-
RALEIGH-FAYETTE-NICHOLAS-WEBSTER-UPSHUR-POCAHONTAS-RANDOLPH-
815 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2011

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST
KENTUCKY...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND MUCH OF WEST VIRGINIA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-WVZ007>011-016>020-029>032-040-110015-
PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON-JACKSON-VINTON-MEIGS-GALLIA-LAWRENCE-
MASON-WOOD-PLEASANTS-TYLER-ROANE-WIRT-CALHOUN-RITCHIE-DODDRIDGE-
GILMER-LEWIS-HARRISON-TAYLOR-BARBOUR-
815 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2011

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OHIO...CENTRAL WEST
VIRGINIA...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST OHIO
FRIDAY...NORTHWEST OF A MCARTHUR TO ATHENS TO MARIETTA LINE. THAT
SLIGHT CHANCE EXPANDS ON SATURDAY TO INCLUDE ALL OF SOUTHEAST
OHIO...AND INTO THE NORTHERN LOWLANDS OF WEST VIRGINIA. DAMAGING
WINDS AND LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 9, 3:40 PM EDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
340 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2011

WVZ024-092045-
MINGO WV-
340 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2011

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WILL AFFECT MINGO COUNTY...

AT 335 PM EDT...A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG A LINE
FROM 11 MILES EAST OF INEZ TO 6 MILES SOUTH OF WILLIAMSON...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. HEAVY RAIN OF
UP TO AN INCH IN AN HOUR WILL FALL FROM THESE STORMS. THIS WILL
CAUSE WATER TO POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES AND
SMALL STREAMS...ESPECIALLY FOR WESTERN PARTS OF THE COUNTY THAT
ALREADY RECEIVED RAINFALL EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON.

THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR LENORE...WILLIAMSON...AND CHATTAROY AROUND
345 PM...CHATTAROY AROUND 350 PM...MYRTLE...MATEWAN...AND DELBARTON
AROUND 410 PM...EDGARTON AROUND 415 PM...RED JACKET AROUND 420 PM AND
VARNEY AROUND 425 PM.

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

LAT...LON 3755 8213 3758 8213 3762 8218 3762 8221
      3765 8224 3768 8231 3775 8233 3781 8241
      3784 8241 3782 8213 3777 8210 3775 8212
      3774 8209 3770 8208 3770 8205 3755 8195

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Special weather statement, Jun 9, 4:32 PM EDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
432 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2011

VAZ004-WVZ024-033-092130-
BUCHANAN VA-MCDOWELL WV-MINGO WV-
432 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2011

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WILL AFFECT WESTERN
BUCHANAN...NORTHWESTERN MCDOWELL AND SOUTHEASTERN MINGO COUNTIES...

AT 421 PM EDT...A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEARLY
STATIONARY OVER WESTERN BUCHANAN...SOUTHEASTERN MINGO...AND WESTERN
BUCHANAN COUNTIES.

VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THESE STORMS...AT A RATE IN EXCESS OF
AN INCH PER HOUR...WHICH WILL CAUSE WATER TO POND ON ROADS AND
QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES AND SMALL STREAMS. WIND GUSTS TO 40
MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE IMPACTED INCLUDE BUT WILL NOT BE LIMITED TO
GILBERT CREEK...PANTHER...HURLEY...BIG ROCK...ROSEANN...AND GRUNDY.

IN HILLY TERRAIN THERE ARE MANY LOW WATER CROSSINGS WHICH ARE
POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL ACROSS
FLOODED ROADS. FIND ALTERNATE ROUTES. IT TAKES ONLY A FEW INCHES OF
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER TO CARRY VEHICLES AWAY.

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

LAT...LON 3732 8225 3741 8216 3754 8198 3753 8202
      3754 8203 3766 8194 3763 8181 3756 8185
      3744 8190 3724 8208

19

Local storm report, Jun 9, 7:13 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON, WV
713 PM EDT THU JUN 09 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0515 PM     HAIL             1 SW ULYSSES            37.94N  82.70W
06/09/2011  E1.00 INCH       LAWRENCE           KY   EMERGENCY MNGR

&&

EVENT NUMBER RLX1100692

ARB

Special weather statement, Jun 9, 8:19 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
819 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2011

OHZ086-WVZ006-007-100045-
CABELL WV-GALLIA OH-MASON WV-
819 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2011

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTH CENTRAL CABELL...SOUTH
CENTRAL GALLIA AND SOUTHWESTERN MASON COUNTIES...

AT 816 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 12 MILES NORTHEAST
OF PROCTORVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND HAIL UP TO DIME SIZE ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM. A QUICK DOWNPOUR OF AROUND A HALF INCH...AND CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED IN ITS PATH.

THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR ASHTON AROUND 840 PM.

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

LAT...LON 3869 8205 3861 8205 3861 8206 3852 8206
      3853 8230 3857 8230 3858 8229 3859 8235
      3868 8236

19

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 8:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Putnam	48 min
Jun 9, 8:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Taylor	42 min
Jun 9, 8:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Barbour, Harrison, Taylor	39 min
Jun 9, 9:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Cabell	41 min
Jun 9, 9:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Barbour, Doddridge, Harrison, Lewis, Taylor, Upshur	40 min
Jun 9, 9:24 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Doddridge, Harrison, Ritchie, Taylor	2 hr
Jun 9, 9:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Barbour, Doddridge, Harrison, Lewis, Taylor, Upshur	45 min
Jun 9, 10:08 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Barbour, Harrison, Lewis, Taylor, Upshur	112 min
Jun 9, 10:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Doddridge, Gilmer, Lewis, Ritchie	53 min
Jun 9, 10:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Wood	63 min
Jun 9, 11:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Calhoun, Gilmer, Ritchie, Wirt, Wood	58 min
Jun 9, 11:18 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	RLX	Barbour, Braxton, Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison and 11 more	24 hr
Jun 9, 11:44 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Braxton, Calhoun, Gilmer, Lewis, Randolph, Ritchie and 3 more	2 hr
Jun 10, 12:34 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Barbour, Harrison, Taylor	116 min
Jun 10, 12:55 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Pocahontas	65 min
Jun 10, 1:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Wayne	25 min
Jun 10, 1:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Lincoln, Wayne	37 min
Jun 10, 3:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Jackson	58 min
Jun 9, 9:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Morgan	39 min
Jun 9, 10:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Vinton	59 min
Jun 9, 11:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Meigs	41 min
Jun 10, 4:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Lawrence	66 min

Nearby

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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.