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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Jun 21, 2011, 8:20 PM EDT for Pleasants County, West Virginia. 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 21, 2011, 8:20 PM EDT (00:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2011, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
County Pleasants County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 1743 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1203 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 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 21, 6:57 PM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 6:57 PM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
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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.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 8:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Doddridge, Harrison, Lewis, Upshur | 34 min |
| Jun 21, 9:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Barbour, Harrison, Randolph, Taylor, Upshur | 23 min |
| Jun 21, 9:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Cabell, Lincoln, Wayne | 46 min |
| Jun 21, 10:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Boone, Logan, McDowell, Mingo, Raleigh, Wyoming | 40 min |
| Jun 21, 11:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Boone, Fayette, Kanawha, Logan, McDowell, Raleigh and 1 more | 42 min |
| Jun 22, 12:31 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Fayette, Nicholas, Webster | 59 min |
| Jun 21, 9:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Boyd, Carter, Greenup, Lawrence | 46 min |
| Jun 21, 10:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Buchanan, Dickenson | 36 min |
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Special Weather Statements in West Virginia, 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.