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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV

August 25, 2011Summers County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Aug 25, 2011, 3:01 PM EDT for Summers County, West Virginia. It was in force for 29 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: Aug 25, 2011, 3:01 PM EDT (19:01 UTC)
Expired: Aug 25, 2011, 3:30 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV

County Summers County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 144 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: 459 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -147 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1055 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 77 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 Aug 25, 2:28 PM EDT, 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 2:28 PM EDT, 33 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 25, 4:11 AM EDT, 10 hours 50 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
411 AM EDT THU AUG 25 2011

KYZ101>103-105-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-VAZ003-004-WVZ005>011-
013>020-024>040-046-047-260815-
GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE-PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON-JACKSON-
VINTON-MEIGS-GALLIA-DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-WAYNE-CABELL-MASON-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-
411 AM EDT THU AUG 25 2011

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

TRM / ARJ

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 25, 9:24 AM EDT, 5 hours 37 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
924 AM EDT THU AUG 25 2011

KYZ101>103-OHZ083-085>087-WVZ005>008-014-251430-
BOYD KY-CABELL WV-CARTER KY-GALLIA OH-GREENUP KY-JACKSON WV-
JACKSON OH-LAWRENCE OH-MASON WV-MEIGS OH-PUTNAM WV-WAYNE WV-
924 AM EDT THU AUG 25 2011

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT BOYD...CABELL...CARTER...
GALLIA...GREENUP...LAWRENCE...MASON...NORTHWESTERN PUTNAM...
NORTHWESTERN WAYNE...SOUTH CENTRAL MEIGS...SOUTHEASTERN JACKSON AND
WEST CENTRAL JACKSON COUNTIES...

AT 924 AM EDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG A LINE FROM 4 MILES
NORTHWEST OF POINT PLEASANT TO PORTSMOUTH TO 31 MILES NORTH OF
MOREHEAD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. VERY HEAVY RAIN
WILL FALL FROM THESE STORMS...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO POND ON ROADS
AND QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES AND SMALL STREAMS. EXPECT INTENSE
LIGHTNING FROM THESE STORMS. DO NOT STAY IN THE OPEN NOR SEEK SHELTER
UNDER TREES WHEN LIGHTNING THREATENS...MOVE INDOORS WHEN A
THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES.

THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR HARTFORD CITY...SOUTH PORTSMOUTH...AND
SOUTH SHORE AROUND 930 AM...POINT PLEASANT...NEW HAVEN...SYRACUSE...
AND GAGE AROUND 935 AM...GALLIPOLIS...AND HENDERSON AROUND 940 AM AND
VERNON AROUND 945 AM.

THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING INTERSTATES...I-64 BETWEEN MILE
MARKERS 149 AND 191 IN KENTUCKY...AND BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 1 AND 29
IN WEST VIRGINIA.

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

LAT...LON 3834 8324 3842 8324 3856 8310 3872 8304
      3876 8289 3860 8285 3858 8279 3884 8266
      3885 8271 3905 8198 3873 8170 3845 8204
      3828 8245 3826 8269 3818 8300 3826 8316
      3819 8324 3823 8331 3832 8334

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Local storm report, Aug 25, 2:13 PM EDT, 48 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 25, 3:01 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
Aug 25, 3:45 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Taylor	60 min
Aug 25, 7:02 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Pleasants	43 min
Aug 25, 8:28 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Mason, Wood	47 min
Aug 25, 8:35 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Doddridge, Pleasants, Tyler	25 min
Aug 25, 9:24 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Cabell, Mason	66 min
Aug 25, 2:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Fayette, Raleigh	20 min
Aug 25, 5:18 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Athens, Morgan	57 min
Aug 25, 6:37 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Athens, Morgan, Washington	4 hr
Aug 25, 8:00 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Morgan, Washington	2 hr

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.