Alert archive / West Virginia / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at May 21, 2012, 9:21 PM EDT for Wyoming County, West Virginia. It was in force for 84 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
- May 21, 2012, 9:21 PM EDT (01:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 21, 2012, 10:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 84 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
County Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:23 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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1206 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
711
WWUS81 KRLX 220121
SPSRLX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
921 PM EDT MON MAY 21 2012
WVZ034-220245-
WYOMING WV-
921 PM EDT MON MAY 21 2012
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTH CENTRAL WYOMING COUNTY...
AT 918 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF PINEVILLE...MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH.
WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH 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.
RADAR ESTIMATED NEAR TWO INCHES OF RAIN PER HOURS WITH THIS STORM
ALONG PINNACLE CREEK AND THE GUYANDOTTE RIVER BASINS.
THIS STORM WILL STAY OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTH CENTRAL WYOMING
COUNTY.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE ELEVATED LEVELS ON
SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...AND PONDING OF WATER ON COUNTRY ROADS AND
FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.
PLEASE REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.
LAT...LON 3748 8145 3748 8152 3749 8154 3759 8154
3760 8144 3751 8133 3747 8145
$$
08The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 3:35 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RLX | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Clay, Harrison and 11 more | 18 hr |
| May 22, 1:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Wood | 3 hr |
| May 22, 1:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Pocahontas | 2 hr |
| May 22, 4:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Raleigh | 46 min |
| May 22, 5:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Raleigh | 48 min |
| May 22, 6:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Randolph | 38 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.