Alert archive / West Virginia / Special Weather Statements in 2012

Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV

July 5, 2012Barbour County, Harrison County, Taylor County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Jul 5, 2012, 2:07 AM EDT for Barbour County, Harrison County, Taylor County, West Virginia. It was in force for 53 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 5, 2012, 2:07 AM EDT (06:07 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2012, 3:00 AM EDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV

Counties Barbour County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Taylor County, WV

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 123 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: 1419 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2023 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 133 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.

126 
WWUS81 KRLX 050607
SPSRLX

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
207 AM EDT THU JUL 5 2012

WVZ020-031-032-040-050700-
BARBOUR WV-DODDRIDGE WV-HARRISON WV-TAYLOR WV-
207 AM EDT THU JUL 5 2012

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT EASTERN DODDRIDGE...HARRISON...
NORTHERN BARBOUR AND TAYLOR COUNTIES...

AT 203 AM EDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG A LINE FROM 8 MILES
SOUTH OF BROOKHAVEN TO MANNINGTON TO 14 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NEW
MARTINSVILLE...MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND PEA-SIZED HAIL 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. 

IF ANY STORM PULSES TO A STRONGER LEVEL...A BRIEF SEVERE 
THUNDERSTORM WARNING MAY BE NEEDED FOR ITS PROJECTED PATH.

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

LAT...LON 3910 7983 3909 8018 3911 8022 3910 8025
      3917 8062 3943 8066 3945 8062 3943 8054
      3947 8047 3944 8027 3940 8020 3941 8010
      3939 8008 3946 7993 3943 7989 3930 7989
      3923 7981

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 4, 8:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Taylor	22 min
Jul 4, 8:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Barbour, Taylor	32 min
Jul 5, 2:50 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Barbour, Randolph, Taylor	38 min
Jul 5, 6:16 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Cabell	44 min
Jul 5, 9:28 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Pleasants, Tyler	77 min
Jul 5, 10:24 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer, Jackson, Lewis, Mason and 4 more	66 min
Jul 5, 11:10 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Gilmer, Jackson, Kanawha and 4 more	50 min
Jul 5, 11:20 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Kanawha, Mason, Putnam	40 min
Jul 5, 11:39 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boone, Fayette, Kanawha, Lincoln, Putnam	36 min
Jul 5, 12:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boone, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, Putnam, Raleigh and 1 more	59 min
Jul 5, 12:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Fayette, Kanawha, Raleigh, Wyoming	43 min
Jul 5, 1:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Logan, McDowell, Mingo, Wyoming	57 min
Jul 5, 1:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Logan, Mingo	43 min
Jul 5, 1:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Raleigh	32 min
Jul 5, 1:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	McDowell	61 min
Jul 5, 3:13 PM EDT	Heat Advisory	RLX	Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge and 18 more	29 hr
Jul 4, 11:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Morgan, Perry	44 min
Jul 5, 3:13 PM EDT	Excessive Heat Warning	RLX	Athens, Jackson, Morgan, Perry, Vinton	29 hr
Jul 5, 5:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Morgan	23 min
Jul 5, 6:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Jackson	50 min
Jul 5, 7:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Jackson	44 min
Jul 5, 7:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Boyd	29 min
Jul 5, 1:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Buchanan, Dickenson	61 min
Jul 5, 2:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Buchanan, Dickenson	59 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.