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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV

June 21, 2011Jackson County, Ohio; Greenup County, Kentucky

NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Jun 21, 2011, 7:29 PM EDT for Jackson County, Ohio; Greenup County, Kentucky. It was in force for 31 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 21, 2011, 7:29 PM EDT (23:29 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 2011, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV

Counties Greenup County, KY, Jackson County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 109 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: 2237 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 911 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 21, 6:57 PM EDT, 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 6:57 PM EDT, 32 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 21, 1:45 PM EDT, 5 hours 44 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
145 PM EDT TUE JUN 21 2011

VAZ003-004-WVZ008>011-013>020-024>040-046-047-221745-
DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-JACKSON-WOOD-PLEASANTS-TYLER-LINCOLN-PUTNAM-
KANAWHA-ROANE-WIRT-CALHOUN-RITCHIE-DODDRIDGE-MINGO-LOGAN-BOONE-CLAY-
BRAXTON-GILMER-LEWIS-HARRISON-TAYLOR-MCDOWELL-WYOMING-RALEIGH-
FAYETTE-NICHOLAS-WEBSTER-UPSHUR-BARBOUR-POCAHONTAS-RANDOLPH-
145 PM EDT TUE JUN 21 2011

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...CENTRAL
WEST VIRGINIA...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR MUCH OF THE
AREA THROUGH TONIGHT. THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE WIND. HEAVY
RAIN...AND LOCALIZED FLOODING IS ALSO POSSIBLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

KYZ101>103-105-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-WVZ005>007-221745-
GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE-PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON-JACKSON-
VINTON-MEIGS-GALLIA-WAYNE-CABELL-MASON-
145 PM EDT TUE JUN 21 2011

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST
KENTUCKY...SOUTHEAST OHIO AND WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR MUCH OF THE
AREA THROUGH TONIGHT. THE PRIMARY THREATS WILL BE WIND. HEAVY
RAIN...AND LOCALIZED FLOODING IS ALSO POSSIBLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHEAST
OHIO...NORTHEAST KENTUCKY AND THE WEST VIRGINIA COUNTIES ALONG THE
OHIO RIVER WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THE PRIMARY THREATS
WILL BE WIND AND HAIL. HEAVY RAIN...AND LOCALIZED FLOODING IS
ALSO POSSIBLE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 21, 7:07 PM EDT, 22 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 21, 7:10 PM EDT, 19 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 21, 7:13 PM EDT, 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 21, 7:17 PM EDT, 12 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 21, 7:19 PM EDT, 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 21, 7:29 PM 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 21, 12:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Upshur	27 min
Jun 21, 1:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Randolph	30 min
Jun 21, 1:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Randolph	27 min
Jun 21, 1:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Pocahontas	32 min
Jun 21, 3:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Wyoming	23 min
Jun 21, 3:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Raleigh, Wyoming	32 min
Jun 21, 4:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Raleigh	31 min
Jun 21, 4:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Kanawha	23 min
Jun 21, 4:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Wayne	22 min
Jun 21, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Logan, Mingo	48 min
Jun 21, 5:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Cabell, Lincoln, Wayne	26 min
Jun 21, 5:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell, Wayne	50 min
Jun 21, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boone, Lincoln, Logan, Mingo	58 min
Jun 21, 5:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Putnam	35 min
Jun 21, 6:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Kanawha	23 min
Jun 21, 7:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Calhoun, Roane	35 min
Jun 21, 7:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Pleasants, Ritchie, Wirt, Wood	34 min
Jun 21, 7:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Braxton, Calhoun, Gilmer	26 min
Jun 21, 6:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Gallia, Jackson	36 min
Jun 21, 6:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens, Gallia, Jackson, Meigs, Vinton	34 min
Jun 21, 7:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Athens, Meigs, Perry	38 min
Jun 21, 7:56 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Gallia, Jackson, Lawrence	4 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Ohio, 2011 Special Weather Statements in Kentucky, 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.