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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV

July 8, 2011Pleasants County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Jul 8, 2011, 7:47 AM EDT for Pleasants County, West Virginia. It was in force for 43 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: Jul 8, 2011, 7:47 AM EDT (11:47 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 2011, 8:30 AM EDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV

County Pleasants County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:50 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 218 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: 509 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1610 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -10 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 Jul 8, 6:09 AM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 6:09 AM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 8, 3:28 AM EDT, 4 hours 19 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
328 AM EDT FRI JUL 8 2011

VAZ003-004-WVZ024>026-033>036-090730-
DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-MINGO-LOGAN-BOONE-MCDOWELL-WYOMING-RALEIGH-
FAYETTE-
328 AM EDT FRI JUL 8 2011

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING. THE MAIN THREATS ARE DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL.

IF THUNDERSTORMS TODAY MOVE OVER THE SAME AREA MULTIPLE
TIMES...FLASH FLOODING COULD BECOME A PROBLEM.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER
CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.

KYZ101>103-105-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-WVZ005>011-013>020-027>032-
037>040-046-047-090730-
GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE-PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON-JACKSON-
VINTON-MEIGS-GALLIA-WAYNE-CABELL-MASON-WOOD-PLEASANTS-TYLER-LINCOLN-
PUTNAM-KANAWHA-ROANE-WIRT-CALHOUN-RITCHIE-DODDRIDGE-CLAY-BRAXTON-
GILMER-LEWIS-HARRISON-TAYLOR-NICHOLAS-WEBSTER-UPSHUR-BARBOUR-
POCAHONTAS-RANDOLPH-
328 AM EDT FRI JUL 8 2011

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

IF THUNDERSTORMS TODAY MOVE OVER THE SAME AREA MULTIPLE
TIMES...FLASH FLOODING COULD BECOME A PROBLEM.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER
CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 8, 6:30 AM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
630 AM EDT FRI JUL 8 2011

OHZ075-076-081100-
ATHENS OH-WASHINGTON OH-
630 AM EDT FRI JUL 8 2011

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EAST CENTRAL ATHENS AND
SOUTHWESTERN WASHINGTON COUNTIES...

AT 629 AM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES NORTHWEST
OF COOLVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE HAIL UP TO NICKEL SIZE.

THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR BARTLETT AROUND 655 AM AND FLEMING AROUND 700
AM.

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

LAT...LON 3933 8156 3923 8192 3935 8196 3949 8176
      3948 8171 3951 8171

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Special weather statement, Jul 8, 7:47 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
747 AM EDT FRI JUL 8 2011

OHZ076-081230-
WASHINGTON OH-
747 AM EDT FRI JUL 8 2011

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EASTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY...

AT 746 AM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHEAST
OF MARIETTA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

THIS STORM WILL STAY OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN
WASHINGTON COUNTY.

THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING INTERSTATE...I-77 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS
1 AND 12 IN OHIO.

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

LAT...LON 3961 8127 3958 8126 3958 8104 3957 8103
      3954 8103 3953 8105 3937 8140 3939 8140
      3941 8144 3951 8154 3961 8140 3960 8129

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 7, 8:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Raleigh	25 min
Jul 7, 8:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Fayette	24 min
Jul 8, 8:58 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Jackson, Mason, Wirt, Wood	47 min
Jul 8, 9:59 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Jackson, Pleasants, Ritchie, Tyler, Wirt, Wood	46 min
Jul 8, 11:13 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Barbour, Braxton, Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison, Lewis and 5 more	47 min
Jul 8, 12:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Barbour, Randolph, Taylor, Upshur, Webster	41 min
Jul 8, 3:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Boone, Lincoln, Logan, Mingo	37 min
Jul 8, 4:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Logan, Mingo	49 min
Jul 8, 4:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Raleigh, Wyoming	36 min
Jul 8, 6:30 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Washington	30 min
Jul 8, 8:03 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Gallia, Jackson, Lawrence	42 min
Jul 8, 1:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Boyd, Carter, Greenup, Lawrence	45 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.