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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Apr 4, 2012, 1:54 PM EDT for Boyd County, Kentucky. It was in force for 51 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 4, 2012, 1:54 PM EDT (17:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 2012, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
County Boyd County, KY
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:58 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 405 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 820 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 Apr 4, 10:30 AM EDT, 3 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 4, 10:30 AM EDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 4, 5:59 AM EDT, 7 hours 55 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 559 AM EDT WED APR 4 2012 KYZ101-OHZ087-WVZ006-014-015-027-036>040-046-047-051000- GREENUP-LAWRENCE OH-CABELL-PUTNAM-KANAWHA-CLAY-FAYETTE-NICHOLAS- WEBSTER-UPSHUR-BARBOUR-POCAHONTAS-RANDOLPH- 559 AM EDT WED APR 4 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...SOUTHEAST OHIO AND MUCH OF WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL THROUGH THIS EVENING...LEADING TO MINOR FLOODING AND/OR SWIFT MOVING CREEKS AND STREAMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. KYZ102-103-105-VAZ003-004-WVZ005-013-024>026-033>035-051000- CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE KY-DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-WAYNE-LINCOLN-MINGO-LOGAN- BOONE-MCDOWELL-WYOMING-RALEIGH- 559 AM EDT WED APR 4 2012 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLASH FLOOD WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. OHZ066-067-075-076-083>086-WVZ007>011-016>020-028>032-051000- PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON-JACKSON OH-VINTON-MEIGS-GALLIA-MASON- JACKSON WV-WOOD-PLEASANTS-TYLER-ROANE-WIRT-CALHOUN-RITCHIE-DODDRIDGE- BRAXTON-GILMER-LEWIS-HARRISON-TAYLOR- 559 AM EDT WED APR 4 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OHIO...CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL THROUGH THIS EVENING...LEADING TO MINOR FLOODING AND/OR SWIFT MOVING CREEKS AND STREAMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. LOW TEMPERATURES ON THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY NIGHT ARE EXPECTED TO DROP INTO THE LOW TO MID 30S...ESPECIALLY IN VALLEY LOCATIONS. TEMPERATURES THIS LOW CAN LEAD TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF PATCHY FROST....WHICH COULD CAUSE HARM TO TENDER VEGETATION. THE FORECAST WILL BE MONITORED FOR A POSSIBLE FROST ADVISORY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 4, 1:54 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
154 PM EDT WED APR 4 2012
KYZ101>103-041845-
BOYD KY-CARTER KY-GREENUP KY-
154 PM EDT WED APR 4 2012
...A STRONG BACK BUILDING THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT
BOYD...NORTHEASTERN CARTER AND SOUTHERN GREENUP COUNTIES...
AT 148 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHEAST
OF GRAYSON...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS ALSO
BACKBUILDING WEST OF THE MAIN CELL.
WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND HAIL UP TO DIME 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 COALTON AROUND 210 PM...PRINCESS AROUND 215
PM...CANNONSBURG AROUND 225 PM...ASHLAND AROUND 235 PM AND
CATLETTSBURG AROUND 245 PM.
THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING INTERSTATE...I-64 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS
174 AND 191 IN KENTUCKY.
PLEASE REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.
LAT...LON 3846 8304 3847 8261 3843 8260 3835 8259
3832 8257 3831 8257 3830 8258 3837 8305The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 3:39 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RLX | Boone, Lincoln, Logan, McDowell, Mingo, Wayne and 1 more | 19 hr |
| Apr 4, 2:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Mingo | 43 min |
| Apr 4, 2:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Wayne | 31 min |
| Apr 4, 3:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Cabell, Wayne | 114 min |
| Apr 4, 3:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Mingo | 38 min |
| Apr 4, 3:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | McDowell | 32 min |
| Apr 4, 4:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Wayne | 40 min |
| Apr 4, 4:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Boone, Logan | 83 min |
| Apr 4, 4:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Lincoln | 39 min |
| Apr 4, 4:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | McDowell | 65 min |
| Apr 4, 4:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Lincoln | 31 min |
| Apr 4, 2:29 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | RLX | Athens, Morgan, Perry, Vinton | 18 hr |
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.