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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV

April 3, 2012Clay County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Apr 3, 2012, 3:00 PM EDT for Clay County, West Virginia. It was in force for 30 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, 3:00 PM EDT (19:00 UTC)
Expired: Apr 3, 2012, 3:30 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV

County Clay County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 205 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: 1573 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 136 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 225 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, 2:52 PM EDT, 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 2:52 PM EDT, 8 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 3, 9:11 AM EDT, 5 hours 49 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, 42 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

Local storm report, Apr 3, 2:36 PM EDT, 24 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
236 PM EDT TUE APR 03 2012

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0220 PM     HAIL             2 WSW CLINTWOOD         37.14N  82.49W
04/03/2012  M0.88 INCH       DICKENSON          VA   CO-OP OBSERVER

            DIME AND NICKEL SIZED HAIL

&&

EVENT NUMBER RLX1200235

ARB

Local storm report, Apr 3, 2:39 PM EDT, 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
239 PM EDT TUE APR 03 2012

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0225 PM     HAIL             6 WNW NORA              37.10N  82.45W
04/03/2012  E1.75 INCH       DICKENSON          VA   PUBLIC

&&

EVENT NUMBER RLX1200236

JSH

Local storm report, Apr 3, 2:40 PM EDT, 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
240 PM EDT TUE APR 03 2012

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0228 PM     HAIL             NORA                    37.07N  82.35W
04/03/2012  E0.70 INCH       DICKENSON          VA   PUBLIC

&&

EVENT NUMBER RLX1200237

JSH

Special weather statement, Apr 3, 3:00 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
300 PM EDT TUE APR 3 2012

WVZ016-018-027-028-037-031930-
BRAXTON WV-CALHOUN WV-CLAY WV-NICHOLAS WV-ROANE WV-
300 PM EDT TUE APR 3 2012

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EAST CENTRAL ROANE...NORTH
CENTRAL NICHOLAS...NORTHEASTERN CLAY...SOUTHERN CALHOUN AND
SOUTHWESTERN BRAXTON COUNTIES...

AT 256 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 13 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF SPENCER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND HAIL UP TO DIME SIZE ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR NEBO AROUND 310 PM...SERVIA AROUND 320 PM AND
STRANGE CREEK AROUND 330 PM.

THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING INTERSTATE...I-79 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS
34 AND 57.

PLEASE REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.

LAT...LON 3837 8092 3868 8128 3882 8114 3874 8099
      3872 8098 3873 8097 3858 8070

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 3, 7:17 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	McDowell	2 hr
Apr 3, 2:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Dickenson	27 min
Apr 3, 2:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Buchanan, Dickenson	27 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.