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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV

June 10, 2011Pocahontas County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Jun 10, 2011, 12:55 AM EDT for Pocahontas County, West Virginia. It was in force for 65 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 10, 2011, 12:55 AM EDT (04:55 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2011, 2:00 AM EDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV

County Pocahontas County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 168 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 214 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: 275 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1606 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.2

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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, 11:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 11:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 9, 11:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 9, 10:59 PM EDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON, WV
1059 PM EDT THU JUN 09 2011

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

1018 PM     TSTM WND DMG     JANE LEW                39.11N  80.41W
06/09/2011                   LEWIS              WV   911 CALL CENTER

            TREES DOWN

&&

EVENT NUMBER RLX1100707

ARB

Local storm report, Jun 9, 11:18 PM EDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON, WV
1118 PM EDT THU JUN 09 2011

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

1035 PM     TSTM WND DMG     CREOLA                  39.32N  82.47W
06/09/2011                   VINTON             OH   911 CALL CENTER

            TREE DOWN

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EVENT NUMBER RLX1100708

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Local storm report, Jun 9, 11:26 PM EDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 9, 11:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 9, 11:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 10, 12:55 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 8:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Cabell	26 min
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, 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

Special Weather Statements in West Virginia, 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.