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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV

March 19, 2012Jackson County, Roane County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Mar 19, 2012, 5:17 AM EDT for Jackson County, Roane County, West Virginia. It was in force for 28 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 19, 2012, 5:17 AM EDT (09:17 UTC)
Expired: Mar 19, 2012, 5:45 AM EDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV

Counties Jackson County, WV, Roane County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:18 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 201 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: 967 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1440 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 160 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 3.1

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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 Mar 19, 3:10 AM EDT, 2 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 19, 3:10 AM EDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 19, 3:48 AM EDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
348 AM EDT MON MAR 19 2012

KYZ101>103-105-OHZ066-083-084-086-087-VAZ003-004-WVZ005>007-013>015-
024>026-033>036-200800-
GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE KY-PERRY-JACKSON OH-VINTON-GALLIA-
LAWRENCE OH-DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-WAYNE-CABELL-MASON-LINCOLN-PUTNAM-
KANAWHA-MINGO-LOGAN-BOONE-MCDOWELL-WYOMING-RALEIGH-FAYETTE-
348 AM EDT MON MAR 19 2012

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST
KENTUCKY...SOUTHEAST OHIO...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...SOUTHERN WEST
VIRGINIA AND WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

OHZ067-075-076-085-WVZ008>011-016>020-027>032-037>040-046-047-200800-
MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON-MEIGS-JACKSON WV-WOOD-PLEASANTS-TYLER-ROANE-
WIRT-CALHOUN-RITCHIE-DODDRIDGE-CLAY-BRAXTON-GILMER-LEWIS-HARRISON-
TAYLOR-NICHOLAS-WEBSTER-UPSHUR-BARBOUR-POCAHONTAS-RANDOLPH-
348 AM EDT MON MAR 19 2012

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OHIO...CENTRAL WEST
VIRGINIA AND NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH THIS MORNING ACROSS
SOUTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA. LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY
RAINFALL ARE THE PRIMARY THREATS WITH ANY CONVECTION.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 19, 3:24 AM EDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 19, 3:28 AM EDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 19, 3:30 AM EDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 19, 4:05 AM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 19, 4:41 AM EDT, 36 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 19, 5:17 AM 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
Mar 18, 11:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Wirt	39 min
Mar 18, 11:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Wood	30 min
Mar 18, 11:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Roane	31 min
Mar 19, 12:13 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Braxton	32 min
Mar 19, 1:20 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Pleasants, Tyler	25 min
Mar 19, 2:07 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wood	38 min
Mar 19, 3:18 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Jackson	27 min
Mar 19, 3:28 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Clay	32 min
Mar 19, 4:05 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Roane	25 min
Mar 19, 4:11 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Roane	49 min
Mar 19, 4:41 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Calhoun, Gilmer, Wirt	34 min
Mar 19, 9:42 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Clay, Fayette, Kanawha, Nicholas	2 hr
Mar 19, 4:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Wood	25 min
Mar 19, 5:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Ritchie	47 min
Mar 19, 5:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Pleasants, Ritchie, Wood	36 min
Mar 19, 5:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Tyler	31 min
Mar 19, 6:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Doddridge, Tyler	46 min
Mar 19, 6:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Upshur	36 min
Mar 19, 7:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Doddridge, Harrison, Lewis, Upshur	27 min
Mar 19, 7:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Barbour	32 min
Mar 19, 7:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Barbour, Harrison, Lewis, Randolph, Upshur	45 min
Mar 18, 8:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens, Morgan, Perry	42 min
Mar 18, 8:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens, Morgan	35 min
Mar 18, 9:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens, Morgan, Washington	46 min
Mar 18, 9:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens, Perry	34 min
Mar 18, 9:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens, Morgan, Perry, Washington	46 min
Mar 18, 10:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Athens	34 min
Mar 18, 11:28 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Athens, Vinton	2 hr
Mar 19, 1:58 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Athens	32 min
Mar 19, 2:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Athens	2 hr
Mar 19, 3:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Athens	36 min
Mar 19, 3:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Athens	71 min

Nearby

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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.