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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV

April 3, 2012Dickenson County, Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Apr 3, 2012, 2:18 PM EDT for Dickenson County, Virginia. It was in force for 27 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
Apr 3, 2012, 2:18 PM EDT (18:18 UTC)
Expired
Apr 3, 2012, 2:45 PM EDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV

County Dickenson County, VA

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 245 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2012-04-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2012-04-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 75 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1108 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
237 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 Apr 3, 2:13 PM EDT, 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 2:13 PM EDT, 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
213 PM EDT TUE APR 3 2012

.SYNOPSIS...
LOW PRESSURE WITH COLD FRONT LATE THIS EVENING INTO WEDNESDAY
WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM BRINGS SHOWER
CHANCES TO THE SOUTH WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY NIGHT.

&&

.NEAR TERM /THROUGH WEDNESDAY/...
WARM FRONT MOVING NORTHEAST ACROSS CENTRAL KY THIS MORNING WILL
SERVE AS A FOCUSING MECHANISM FOR SHOWER DEVELOPMENT INTO THE
MORNING HOURS. LOOKS LIKE SOUTHERN COAL FIELDS AND SOUTHWEST VA
WILL HAVE TE BEST CHANCES FOR SHOWER DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON.

WARM FRONT LIFTS NORTH LATER TODAY...WITH A COLD FRONT SLIDING
ACROSS TONIGHT BRINGING MORE WIDESPREAD SHOWER ACTIVITY.
CONVECTIVE PARAMETERS HINT THAT SLIGHT CHANCES FOR SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS MAY TOUCH THE WESTERN BOUNDARIES OF THE RLX COUNTY
WARNING AREA DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS.

OVERALL...THE INHERITED PACKAGE IN GOOD SHAPE. MADE MINOR
ADJUSTMENTS TO DEW POINT VALUES FOR TODAY TO ACCOUNT FOR INCREASED
AFTERNOON MIXING. ADJUSTMENTS WERE MINOR...SINCE THERE WILL BE
INCREASED MOISTURE INFLUX IN COMBINATION WITH WAA WITH WARM FRONT
PASSAGE. THIS SHOULD HELP OFFSET BL MIXING IN THE AFTERNOON.

&&

.SHORT TERM /WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY/...
COLD FRONT WILL BE SOUTH OF THE AREA AT THE BEGINNING OF THE PERIOD.
AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL DEVELOP ALONG THE BOUNDARY AND MOVE EAST.
THESE SURFACE FEATURES...IN COMBINATION OF AN UPPER LOW AND TROUGH...
WILL RESULT IN CHANCES OF SHOWERS ACROSS OUR SOUTHERN COUNTIES
THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT.  SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD ACROSS THE
ENTIRE AREA LATE THURSDAY NIGHT...BRINGING PRECIPITATION CHANCES TO
AN END.

LATEST TEMP GUIDANCE IS CLOSE TO PREVIOUS FORECAST NUMBERS AND IS
BELIEVABLE.  SO ONLY TWEAKS MADE.

&&

.LONG TERM /FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY/...
UPPER LEVEL LOW PASSES TO THE SOUTH OF THE AREA THURSDAY NIGHT...AND
PEAK THE POPS AT 00Z FRIDAY ACROSS THE SOUTHERN THREE QUARTERS OF
THE CWA. UPPER LEVEL RIDGING TO RETURN INTO THE WEEKEND WITH MORE
PLEASANT WEATHER IN THE MAKING. COLD FRONT SLATED FOR THE END OF THE
WEEKEND...WITH MANY OF THE LONG RANGE MODELS TRENDING TOWARDS A
COLDER PATTERN BEYOND THE WEEKEND. MODELS POINTING TO A HIGH
AMPLITUDE TROUGH OVER THE EASTERN CONUS EARLY NEXT WEEK...WITH CPC
ON BOARD IN THESE PROJECTIONS IN BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES BEYOND
DAY 8. WILL WATCH THIS POTENTIAL FOR AGRICULTURAL IMPACTS.

&&

.AVIATION /18Z TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY/...
VFR CONDITIONS PREVAIL. DYING ELEVATED CONVECTION WILL SKIRT SE
OH ZONES...AND A WARM FRONT WILL LIFT NORTH OF THE AREA LATER THIS
AFTERNOON. THIS SHOULD RESULT IN MID LEVEL CLOUDS...MOSTLY AT OR
ABOVE VFR. COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH LATER THIS EVENING AND
TONIGHT...BRINGING CONVECTION WITH GENERAL MVFR CONDITIONS FOR
THE REMAINDER OF THE PERIOD. ISOLD IFR AND LIFR WILL OCCUR WITH
THE HEAVIER DOWNPOURS.

FORECAST CONFIDENCE AND ALTERNATE SCENARIOS THROUGH 18Z WEDNESDAY...

FORECAST CONFIDENCE...HIGH.

ALTERNATE SCENARIOS: TIMING OF DROPS INTO MVFR TONIGHT COULD VARY
BASED ON PROGRESSION OF SHOWERS AND STORMS. BRIEF IFR CONDITIONS
MAY PREVAIL IN HEAVIER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS.

EXPERIMENTAL TABLE OF FLIGHT CATEGORY OBJECTIVELY SHOWS CONSISTENCY
OF WFO FORECAST TO AVAILABLE MODEL INFORMATION:
H = HIGH:   TAF CONSISTENT WITH ALL MODELS OR ALL BUT ONE MODEL.
M = MEDIUM: TAF HAS VARYING LEVEL OF CONSISTENCY WITH MODELS.
L = LOW:    TAF INCONSISTENT WITH ALL MODELS OR ALL BUT ONE MODEL.

UTC 1HRLY       18   19   20   21   22   23   00   01   02   03   04   05
EDT 1HRLY       14   15   16   17   18   19   20   21   22   23   00   01
CRW CONSISTENCY  H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H
HTS CONSISTENCY  H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H
BKW CONSISTENCY  H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H
EKN CONSISTENCY  H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H
PKB CONSISTENCY  H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H
CKB CONSISTENCY  H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H    H

AFTER 18Z WEDNESDAY...
IFR CONDITIONS POSSIBLE IN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY.

&&

.RLX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
WV...NONE.
OH...NONE.
KY...NONE.
VA...NONE.

&&

SYNOPSIS...JSH/KMC/JMV
NEAR TERM...KMC
SHORT TERM...JSH
LONG TERM...26
AVIATION...KMC
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 3, 9:11 AM EDT, 5 hours 7 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
911 AM EDT TUE APR 3 2012

OHZ066-067-075-076-084-085-VAZ003-004-WVZ007>011-013>020-024>040-046-
047-041315-
PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON-VINTON-MEIGS-DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-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-
911 AM EDT TUE APR 3 2012

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR 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...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

KYZ101>103-105-OHZ083-086-087-WVZ005-006-041315-
GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE KY-JACKSON OH-GALLIA-LAWRENCE OH-WAYNE-
CABELL-
911 AM EDT TUE APR 3 2012

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

OVERNIGHT THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

.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, Apr 3, 2:18 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
218 PM EDT TUE APR 3 2012

VAZ003-031845-
DICKENSON VA-
218 PM EDT TUE APR 3 2012

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHERN DICKENSON COUNTY...

AT 215 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF CLINTWOOD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND HAIL UP TO NICKEL SIZE ARE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM. VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THIS STORM...AND WILL
CAUSE WATER TO POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES AND
SMALL STREAMS.

THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR MCCLURE AROUND 235 PM...NORA AROUND 240 PM
AND NORA 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 3698 8238 3701 8247 3704 8250 3713 8255
      3720 8256 3723 8250 3706 8214 3705 8214
      3702 8220 3699 8225 3699 8229 3695 8236

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 3, 3:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXClay30 min
Apr 3, 7:17 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXMcDowell2 hr
Apr 3, 2:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBuchanan, Dickenson27 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Virginia, 2012Every 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.