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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Oct 13, 2011, 2:05 PM EDT for Gilmer County, West Virginia. It was in force for 40 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
- Oct 13, 2011, 2:05 PM EDT (18:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2011, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
County Gilmer County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 158 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 471 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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 Oct 13, 1:23 PM EDT, 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 13, 1:23 PM EDT, 42 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 13, 3:53 AM EDT, 10 hours 12 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 353 AM EDT THU OCT 13 2011 KYZ101>103-105-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-VAZ003-004-WVZ005>011- 013>020-024>040-046-047-140800- 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- 353 AM EDT THU OCT 13 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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 13, 2:05 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
205 PM EDT THU OCT 13 2011
WVZ020-029-030-131845-
DODDRIDGE WV-GILMER WV-LEWIS WV-
205 PM EDT THU OCT 13 2011
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EASTERN GILMER...NORTHWESTERN
LEWIS AND SOUTHERN DODDRIDGE COUNTIES...
AT 200 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTH OF
GLENVILLE...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.
WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH AND HAIL UP TO DIME SIZE ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR GLENVILLE AROUND 215 PM...TROY AROUND 230 PM
AND GROVE AROUND 245 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 3918 8059 3917 8058 3916 8056 3914 8054
3886 8072 3883 8079 3884 8088 3907 8087
3910 8081 3920 8086
30The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 2:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Harrison | 49 min |
| Oct 13, 3:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Calhoun, Pleasants, Ritchie, Tyler, Wirt, Wood | 64 min |
| Oct 13, 4:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Pleasants, Tyler | 45 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.