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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV

July 12, 2011Mingo County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Jul 12, 2011, 7:29 PM EDT for Mingo County, West Virginia. 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: Jul 12, 2011, 7:29 PM EDT (23:29 UTC)
Expired: Jul 12, 2011, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV

County Mingo County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 248 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: 1093 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -119 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 894 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.6

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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 12, 6:07 PM EDT, 1 hour 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 12, 6:07 PM EDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 12, 3:49 AM EDT, 15 hours 40 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
349 AM EDT TUE JUL 12 2011

OHZ083-086-WVZ007-014-130800-
JACKSON-GALLIA-MASON-PUTNAM-
349 AM EDT TUE JUL 12 2011

...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 8 PM EDT THIS
EVENING...

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE
INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS.

   HEAT ADVISORY.

.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.

OHZ066-067-075-076-084-085-WVZ008>011-015>020-027>032-036>040-046-
047-130800-
PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON-VINTON-MEIGS-JACKSON-WOOD-PLEASANTS-
TYLER-KANAWHA-ROANE-WIRT-CALHOUN-RITCHIE-DODDRIDGE-CLAY-BRAXTON-
GILMER-LEWIS-HARRISON-TAYLOR-FAYETTE-NICHOLAS-WEBSTER-UPSHUR-BARBOUR-
POCAHONTAS-RANDOLPH-
349 AM EDT TUE JUL 12 2011

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.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-OHZ087-WVZ005-006-013-130800-
GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE-WAYNE-CABELL-LINCOLN-
349 AM EDT TUE JUL 12 2011

...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 8 PM EDT THIS
EVENING...

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE
INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS.

   HEAT ADVISORY.

THERE IS ALSO A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY...WITH A
THREAT FOR DAMAGING WINDS.

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

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.

VAZ003-004-WVZ024>026-033>035-130800-
DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-MINGO-LOGAN-BOONE-MCDOWELL-WYOMING-RALEIGH-
349 AM EDT TUE JUL 12 2011

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

THERE IS ALSO A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY...WITH A
THREAT FOR DAMAGING WINDS.

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

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 12, 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
Jul 11, 10:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Wood	48 min
Jul 11, 11:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Mason	28 min
Jul 11, 11:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Cabell, Mason, Putnam, Wayne	74 min
Jul 11, 11:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Calhoun, Gilmer, Jackson, Ritchie, Roane, Wirt and 1 more	82 min
Jul 12, 12:01 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Boone, Kanawha, Lincoln, Putnam, Wayne	59 min
Jul 12, 12:05 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Wayne	2 hr
Jul 12, 12:50 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Boone, Fayette, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, Mingo	55 min
Jul 12, 1:37 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Logan, McDowell, Wyoming	53 min
Jul 12, 4:13 AM EDT	Heat Advisory	RLX	Cabell, Lincoln, Mason, Putnam, Wayne	14 hr
Jul 11, 9:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Morgan, Perry	59 min
Jul 11, 9:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Perry	50 min
Jul 11, 9:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens, Perry	36 min
Jul 11, 10:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Athens, Morgan	35 min
Jul 11, 11:04 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Athens, Washington	3 hr
Jul 11, 9:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Dickenson	33 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.