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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Jul 3, 2012, 2:32 PM EDT for Calhoun County, Gilmer County, Lewis County, West Virginia. It was in force for 28 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
- Jul 3, 2012, 2:32 PM EDT (18:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2012, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
Counties Calhoun County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Lewis County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:32 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1812 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 3, 2:08 PM EDT, 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 2:08 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 3, 4:22 AM EDT, 10 hours 10 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 422 AM EDT TUE JUL 3 2012 KYZ101>103-105-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-WVZ005>011-013>020-024>032- 040830- GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE KY-PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON- JACKSON OH-VINTON-MEIGS-GALLIA-LAWRENCE OH-WAYNE-CABELL-MASON- JACKSON WV-WOOD-PLEASANTS-TYLER-LINCOLN-PUTNAM-KANAWHA-ROANE-WIRT- CALHOUN-RITCHIE-DODDRIDGE-MINGO-LOGAN-BOONE-CLAY-BRAXTON-GILMER- LEWIS-HARRISON-TAYLOR- 422 AM EDT TUE JUL 3 2012 ...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...SOUTHEAST OHIO AND MUCH OF 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. HEAT ADVISORY. .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. VAZ003-004-WVZ033>040-046-047-040830- DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-MCDOWELL-WYOMING-RALEIGH-FAYETTE-NICHOLAS-WEBSTER- UPSHUR-BARBOUR-POCAHONTAS-RANDOLPH- 422 AM EDT TUE JUL 3 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND SOUTHERN 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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 2:32 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
232 PM EDT TUE JUL 3 2012
WVZ016-018-028>030-031900-
BRAXTON WV-CALHOUN WV-GILMER WV-LEWIS WV-ROANE WV-
232 PM EDT TUE JUL 3 2012
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT CENTRAL CALHOUN...GILMER...NORTH
CENTRAL ROANE...NORTHWESTERN BRAXTON AND SOUTHERN LEWIS COUNTIES...
AT 228 PM EDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG A LINE FROM 6 MILES
EAST OF GLENVILLE TO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GLENVILLE TO 8 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF GRANTSVILLE TO 8 MILES SOUTH OF GRANTSVILLE...MOVING
EAST AT 20 MPH.
WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND HAIL UP TO NICKEL SIZE ARE POSSIBLE WITH
THESE STORMS. 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 ORMA AROUND 240 PM...STOUTS MILLS AROUND
245 PM...CEDARVILLE AROUND 250 PM...SHOCK AROUND 255 PM AND
BURNSVILLE AROUND 300 PM.
THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING INTERSTATE...I-79 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS
75 AND 93.
PLEASE REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.
LAT...LON 3894 8034 3882 8057 3868 8095 3881 8136
3892 8100 3906 8077 3896 8032
16The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 2:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Calhoun, Gilmer, Roane | 29 min |
| Jul 3, 3:22 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | RLX | Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge and 18 more | 28 hr |
| Jul 3, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mason | 25 min |
| Jul 3, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Roane, Wirt | 34 min |
| Jul 3, 5:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pleasants, Tyler | 26 min |
| Jul 3, 5:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Clay, Kanawha | 36 min |
| Jul 3, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Roane | 31 min |
| Jul 3, 5:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Clay, Kanawha | 29 min |
| Jul 3, 5:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Pleasants, Tyler | 32 min |
| Jul 3, 6:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Roane | 23 min |
| Jul 3, 6:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Fayette | 37 min |
| Jul 3, 6:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Nicholas | 31 min |
| Jul 3, 7:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Kanawha | 36 min |
| Jul 3, 7:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Harrison | 32 min |
| Jul 3, 3:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Meigs | 35 min |
| Jul 3, 3:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Gallia | 26 min |
| Jul 3, 6:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Jackson | 33 min |
| Jul 3, 6:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Vinton | 30 min |
| Jul 3, 7:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Jackson | 84 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.