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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV

May 29, 2012Wyoming County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at May 29, 2012, 3:08 PM EDT for Wyoming County, West Virginia. It was in force for 22 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 29, 2012, 3:08 PM EDT (19:08 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 2012, 3:30 PM EDT
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV

County Wyoming County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 200 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: 190 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -92 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 708 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -49 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.

878 
WWUS81 KRLX 291908
SPSRLX

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
308 PM EDT TUE MAY 29 2012

WVZ025-026-034-291930-
BOONE WV-LOGAN WV-WYOMING WV-
308 PM EDT TUE MAY 29 2012

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHERN WYOMING...SOUTHEASTERN
BOONE AND SOUTHEASTERN LOGAN COUNTIES...

AT 306 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 12 MILES NORTHWEST
OF PINEVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH AND A LOT OF SMALL HAIL 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. EXPECT INTENSE LIGHTNING FROM THIS STORM. DO NOT STAY IN 
THE OPEN NOR SEEK SHELTER UNDER TREES WHEN LIGHTNING 
THREATENS...MOVE INDOORS WHEN A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES. 

THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR OCEANA AROUND 320 PM AND KOPPERSTON AROUND
330 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 3760 8182 3762 8180 3766 8180 3767 8185
      3770 8188 3785 8157 3783 8156 3782 8152
      3779 8151 3778 8146 3768 8139 3754 8178

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 10:35 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Tyler	25 min
May 29, 1:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Gilmer	36 min
May 29, 11:46 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Lawrence	29 min
May 29, 12:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Gallia, Lawrence	35 min
May 29, 3:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Dickenson	28 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in West Virginia, 2012 Every 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.