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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV

September 14, 2011Barbour County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Sep 14, 2011, 3:49 PM EDT for Barbour County, West Virginia. It was in force for 41 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: Sep 14, 2011, 3:49 PM EDT (19:49 UTC)
Expired: Sep 14, 2011, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV

County Barbour County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 151 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: 1214 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 623 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.8

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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 Sep 14, 3:41 PM EDT, 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 14, 3:41 PM EDT, 8 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 14, 1:54 AM EDT, 13 hours 55 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
154 AM EDT WED SEP 14 2011

KYZ101>103-105-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-VAZ003-004-WVZ005>011-
013>020-024>040-046-047-150600-
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-
154 AM EDT WED SEP 14 2011

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

.DAY ONE...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.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 14, 3:49 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
349 PM EDT WED SEP 14 2011

WVZ031-039-040-047-142030-
BARBOUR WV-HARRISON WV-RANDOLPH WV-UPSHUR WV-
349 PM EDT WED SEP 14 2011

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTH CENTRAL RANDOLPH...
NORTHEASTERN UPSHUR...SOUTHEASTERN HARRISON AND SOUTHERN BARBOUR
COUNTIES...

AT 347 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTH OF
BUCKHANNON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND HAIL UP TO NICKEL SIZE ARE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR CENTURY AROUND 400 PM...VOLGA AROUND 405
PM...OVERHILL AROUND 410 PM...AUDRA STATE PARK AROUND 415 PM...
ELLAMORE AROUND 420 PM AND BELINGTON AROUND 430 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 3886 8000 3904 8032 3909 8030 3910 8030
      3911 8032 3923 8024 3911 7986

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 14, 2:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Taylor	46 min
Sep 14, 5:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Cabell	45 min
Sep 14, 6:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Putnam	40 min
Sep 14, 7:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Mason	46 min
Sep 14, 7:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Mason	38 min
Sep 14, 6:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Gallia, 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.