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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV

July 11, 2011Perry County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Jul 11, 2011, 2:28 PM EDT for Perry County, Ohio. It was in force for 62 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 11, 2011, 2:28 PM EDT (18:28 UTC)
Expired: Jul 11, 2011, 3:30 PM EDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV

County Perry County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:31 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 138 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: 95 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -371 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1367 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 133 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 143 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 Jul 11, 2:26 PM EDT, 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 11, 2:26 PM EDT, 2 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 11, 12:37 PM EDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 11, 2:28 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
228 PM EDT MON JUL 11 2011

OHZ066-067-111930-
MORGAN OH-PERRY OH-
228 PM EDT MON JUL 11 2011

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT NORTHWESTERN MORGAN AND PERRY
COUNTIES...

AT 224 PM EDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG A LINE FROM 26 MILES
NORTHWEST OF ZANESVILLE TO 6 MILES NORTH OF REYNOLDSBURG TO 5 MILES
NORTHEAST OF JEFFERSON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 55 MPH AND HAIL UP TO DIME SIZE ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE
STORMS.

THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR THORNVILLE AROUND 250 PM...GLENFORD AROUND
255 PM...SOMERSET AROUND 300 PM...PERRY STATE FOREST...NEW
LEXINGTON...JUNCTION CITY...AND CROOKSVILLE AROUND 310 PM...NEW
LEXINGTON AROUND 315 PM...SHAWNEE AND NEW STRAITSVILLE AROUND 320 PM.

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

LAT...LON 3992 8218 3990 8216 3982 8216 3982 8207
      3978 8207 3976 8189 3955 8215 3955 8226
      3959 8227 3960 8239 3973 8238 3975 8241
      3983 8241 3984 8248 3993 8247

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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 11, 3:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Wood	64 min
Jul 11, 4:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Doddridge, Pleasants, Ritchie, Tyler, Wirt, Wood	55 min
Jul 11, 4:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Jackson, Mason, Putnam, Roane	63 min
Jul 11, 5:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Barbour, Calhoun, Gilmer, Harrison, Lewis, Taylor and 1 more	57 min
Jul 11, 5:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Braxton, Cabell, Clay, Kanawha, Lincoln, Nicholas and 2 more	63 min
Jul 11, 5:43 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Cabell	78 min
Jul 11, 5:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Nicholas, Pocahontas, Randolph, Webster	54 min
Jul 11, 6:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Lincoln, Wayne	57 min
Jul 11, 6:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Boone, Fayette, Kanawha, Logan	67 min
Jul 11, 6:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Logan, McDowell, Mingo, Raleigh, Wyoming	59 min
Jul 11, 7:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	McDowell	59 min
Jul 11, 2:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens, Morgan, Perry	59 min
Jul 11, 7:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Boyd, Carter, Lawrence	65 min

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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.