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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV

April 26, 2012McDowell County, West Virginia; Buchanan County, Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Apr 26, 2012, 4:09 AM EDT for McDowell County, West Virginia; Buchanan County, Virginia. 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 26, 2012, 4:09 AM EDT (08:09 UTC)
Expired: Apr 26, 2012, 5:00 AM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV

Counties Buchanan County, VA, McDowell County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 189 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: 1345 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 413 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 25, 10:30 PM EDT, 5 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 25, 10:30 PM EDT, 5 hours 39 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 25, 4:04 PM EDT, 12 hours 5 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 25, 11:10 PM EDT, 4 hours 59 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 26, 2:57 AM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
257 AM EDT THU APR 26 2012

KYZ101>103-105-WVZ005-006-013-015-024>026-034>036-260830-
BOONE WV-BOYD KY-CABELL WV-CARTER KY-FAYETTE WV-GREENUP KY-KANAWHA WV-
LAWRENCE KY-LINCOLN WV-LOGAN WV-MINGO WV-RALEIGH WV-WAYNE WV-
WYOMING WV-
257 AM EDT THU APR 26 2012

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT BOONE...BOYD...CARTER...
FAYETTE...LAWRENCE...LINCOLN...LOGAN...NORTH CENTRAL WYOMING...
NORTHWESTERN MINGO...RALEIGH...SOUTH CENTRAL CABELL...SOUTH CENTRAL
GREENUP...SOUTHERN KANAWHA AND WAYNE COUNTIES...

AT 253 AM EDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG A LINE FROM 6 MILES
WEST OF YATESVILLE LAKE STATE PARK TO 15 MILES SOUTH OF HAMLIN TO 7
MILES SOUTHWEST OF FAYETTEVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 80 MPH.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE TRAINING OVER THE SAME AREAS.  THIS MEANS
VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THESE STORMS...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO
POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES AND SMALL STREAMS.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE ELEVATED LEVELS ON
SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...AND PONDING OF WATER IN URBAN AREAS...
HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER POOR DRAINAGE
AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.

EXPECT INTENSE LIGHTNING FROM THESE STORMS. DO NOT STAY IN THE OPEN
NOR SEEK SHELTER UNDER TREES WHEN LIGHTNING THREATENS...MOVE INDOORS
WHEN A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES. WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL
ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR GLENHAYES...CLIFFORD...WHITESVILLE...AND
HARTS AROUND 305 AM...DUNLOW...KERMIT...JEFFREY...AND ARTIE AROUND
310 AM...WILSONDALE AND BREEDEN AROUND 315 AM.

THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING INTERSTATES...I-64 BETWEEN MILE
MARKERS 150 AND 191 IN KENTUCKY...I-64 NEAR BECKLEY BETWEEN MILE
MARKERS 120 AND 137...THE WEST VIRGINIA TURNPIKE BETWEEN MILE MARKERS
31 AND 85.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE ELEVATED LEVELS ON
SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...AND PONDING OF WATER IN URBAN AREAS...
HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER POOR DRAINAGE
AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.

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

LAT...LON 3834 8324 3847 8318 3810 8089 3806 8080
      3786 8075 3782 8093 3767 8088 3771 8095
      3763 8107 3782 8238 3795 8252 3788 8263
      3799 8293 3796 8301 3802 8302 3811 8290
      3817 8292 3826 8316 3819 8324 3832 8334

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Special weather statement, Apr 26, 4:09 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
409 AM EDT THU APR 26 2012

VAZ004-WVZ024-033>035-260900-
BUCHANAN VA-MCDOWELL WV-MINGO WV-RALEIGH WV-WYOMING WV-
409 AM EDT THU APR 26 2012

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT BUCHANAN...MCDOWELL...
SOUTHEASTERN MINGO...SOUTHEASTERN RALEIGH AND SOUTHERN WYOMING
COUNTIES...

AT 406 AM EDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG A LINE FROM 10 MILES
SOUTH OF WILLIAMSON TO 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PINEVILLE TO 3 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF SANDSTONE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.
VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THESE STORMS...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO
POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES AND SMALL STREAMS.
EXPECT INTENSE LIGHTNING FROM THESE STORMS. DO NOT STAY IN THE OPEN
NOR SEEK SHELTER UNDER TREES WHEN LIGHTNING THREATENS...MOVE INDOORS
WHEN A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES.

THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR HURLEY AROUND 415 AM...BIG ROCK AROUND 420
AM...ELBERT AROUND 425 AM...GRUNDY AROUND 430 AM...VANSANT AROUND 435
AM AND OAKWOOD AROUND 440 AM.

THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING INTERSTATES...I-64 NEAR BECKLEY NEAR
MILE MARKER 136...THE WEST VIRGINIA TURNPIKE BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 28
AND 36.

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

LAT...LON 3735 8224 3754 8198 3755 8213 3759 8214
      3760 8213 3760 8150 3777 8089 3774 8092
      3768 8087 3771 8095 3760 8107 3757 8119
      3742 8128 3727 8142 3720 8156 3719 8167
      3723 8173 3713 8192 3712 8200 3705 8204

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 26, 2:04 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Boone, Cabell, Lincoln, Logan, Putnam, Wayne	56 min
Apr 26, 2:57 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Boone, Fayette, Lincoln, Logan, Raleigh, Wayne	93 min
Apr 26, 8:52 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Cabell, Jackson, Lincoln, Mason, Putnam, Roane and 3 more	83 min
Apr 26, 4:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Logan	39 min
Apr 26, 4:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Lincoln	41 min
Apr 26, 4:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Logan, McDowell, Mingo, Wyoming	46 min
Apr 26, 5:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Logan, McDowell, Mingo, Wyoming	53 min
Apr 26, 5:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boone, Raleigh	35 min
Apr 26, 5:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	McDowell, Wyoming	32 min
Apr 26, 6:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Raleigh	40 min
Apr 26, 7:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	McDowell	43 min
Apr 26, 7:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	McDowell, Wyoming	61 min
Apr 26, 7:36 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens, Jackson, Vinton	39 min
Apr 26, 8:14 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Jackson, Vinton	31 min
Apr 26, 12:49 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Carter, Lawrence	41 min
Apr 26, 8:32 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Greenup	28 min
Apr 25, 11:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Dickenson	35 min
Apr 26, 1:14 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Dickenson	31 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.