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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Jun 10, 2011, 1:05 PM EDT for Wayne County, West Virginia; Lawrence County, Kentucky. It was in force for 25 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, 1:05 PM EDT (17:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2011, 1:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
Counties Lawrence County, KY, Wayne County, WV
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 286 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
- 198 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -119 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 886 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 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 Jun 10, 10:26 AM EDT, 2 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 10:26 AM EDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 10, 1:05 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| 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, 12:55 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Pocahontas | 65 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, 2011Special Weather Statements in Kentucky, 2011Every 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.