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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Mar 15, 2012, 4:05 AM EDT for Greenup County, Kentucky. It was in force for 25 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
- Mar 15, 2012, 4:05 AM EDT (08:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2012, 4:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
County Greenup County, KY
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -152 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2195 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 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 Mar 15, 3:00 AM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 3:00 AM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 15, 3:43 AM EDT, 22 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 343 AM EDT THU MAR 15 2012 KYZ101>103-105-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-VAZ003-004-WVZ005>011- 013>020-024>040-046-047-160745- GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE KY-PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON- JACKSON OH-VINTON-MEIGS-GALLIA-LAWRENCE OH-DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-WAYNE- CABELL-MASON-JACKSON WV-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- 343 AM EDT THU MAR 15 2012 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, Mar 15, 4:05 AM EDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 7:24 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Boone, Kanawha, Lincoln, Putnam | 66 min |
| Mar 15, 7:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Mason, Putnam | 32 min |
| Mar 15, 7:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Putnam | 33 min |
| Mar 15, 8:35 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Boone, Kanawha, Logan, Mingo | 70 min |
| Mar 15, 9:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Logan, Mingo | 35 min |
| Mar 15, 9:37 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RLX | Boone, Cabell, Lincoln, Logan, McDowell, Mason and 4 more | 12 hr |
| Mar 15, 9:44 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boone, Lincoln, Logan, Mingo | 10 hr |
| Mar 15, 10:51 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Logan, McDowell, Mingo, Wyoming | 4 hr |
| Mar 15, 11:40 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Kanawha, Mason, Putnam | 65 min |
| Mar 15, 11:52 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lincoln, Putnam | 8 hr |
| Mar 15, 12:22 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Cabell, Mason, Putnam, Wayne | 113 min |
| Mar 15, 4:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Logan, Mingo | 4 hr |
| Mar 15, 4:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lawrence | 50 min |
| Mar 15, 6:45 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Perry | 3 hr |
| Mar 15, 1:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Buchanan, Dickenson | 63 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.