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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV

February 29, 2012Pocahontas County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Feb 29, 2012, 4:17 PM EST for Pocahontas County, West Virginia. It was in force for 58 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: Feb 29, 2012, 4:17 PM EST (21:17 UTC)
Expired: Feb 29, 2012, 5:15 PM EST
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV

County Pocahontas County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 133 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 651 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 313 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 338 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 Feb 29, 3:27 PM EST, 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 29, 3:27 PM EST, 50 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 29, 3:39 PM EST, 38 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
339 PM EST WED FEB 29 2012

OHZ066-067-VAZ003-004-012045-
PERRY-MORGAN-DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-
339 PM EST WED FEB 29 2012

...TORNADO WATCH 49 IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EST THIS EVENING...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OHIO AND SOUTHWEST
VIRGINIA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

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

   TORNADO WATCH.

REPETITIVE BATCHES OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE POSSIBLE
TODAY INTO THIS EVENING.

THE GROUND IS STILL WETTER THAN NORMAL IN MANY COUNTIES...ESPECIALLY
IN WEST VIRGINIA. RAIN AMOUNTS OF OVER 1.5 INCHES WOULD BE NEEDED
TO RAISE FLOOD CONCERNS. IF THAT THREAT INCREASES...FLOOD WATCHES
MAY BE POSTED FOR THE MOST VULNERABLE COUNTIES.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED.

KYZ101>103-105-OHZ075-076-083>087-WVZ005>011-013>020-024>040-046-047-
012045-
GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE-ATHENS-WASHINGTON-JACKSON-VINTON-MEIGS-
GALLIA-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-
339 PM EST WED FEB 29 2012

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST THIS EVENING...
...TORNADO WATCH 49 IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EST THIS EVENING...

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

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

   TORNADO WATCH.
   FLASH FLOOD WATCH.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED.

In the hours before

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Local storm report, Feb 29, 4:17 PM EST, 0 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Feb 29, 4:17 PM EST, 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
Feb 29, 10:26 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Cabell, Jackson, Lincoln, Mason, Putnam, Wayne and 1 more	34 min
Feb 29, 11:19 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Braxton, Clay, Kanawha, Nicholas, Roane	41 min
Feb 29, 11:25 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Barbour, Doddridge, Harrison, Lewis, Ritchie, Taylor	50 min
Feb 29, 12:19 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Pleasants, Wirt, Wood	71 min
Feb 29, 12:59 PM EST	Flash Flood Watch	RLX	Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 22 more	9 hr
Feb 29, 1:11 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Wayne	34 min
Feb 29, 1:26 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Barbour, Braxton, Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison and 5 more	57 days
Feb 29, 1:54 PM EST	Tornado Warning	RLX	Wayne	36 min
Feb 29, 2:10 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Calhoun, Gilmer, Jackson, Mason, Ritchie, Wirt and 1 more	45 min
Feb 29, 2:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boone, Lincoln, Logan, Mingo, Wayne	60 min
Feb 29, 3:25 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Barbour, Calhoun, Doddridge, Harrison, Jackson, Mason and 7 more	6 hr
Feb 29, 3:29 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boone, Fayette, Kanawha, Nicholas	46 min
Feb 29, 3:35 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boone, Logan, McDowell, Mingo, Raleigh, Wyoming	55 min
Feb 29, 6:01 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Boone, Fayette, Logan, McDowell, Mingo, Nicholas and 4 more	3 hr
Feb 29, 2:43 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Meigs	62 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in West Virginia, 2012 Every special weather statement in 2012

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.