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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV

July 5, 2012Cabell County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Jul 5, 2012, 6:16 AM EDT for Cabell County, West Virginia. It was in force for 44 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, 6:16 AM EDT (10:16 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2012, 7:00 AM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV

County Cabell County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 162 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: 2070 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1974 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.7

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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 Jul 5, 4:02 AM EDT, 2 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 4:02 AM EDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 5, 2:11 AM EDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 5, 12:30 AM EDT, 5 hours 46 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 5, 2:07 AM EDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 5, 6:16 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

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

OHZ086-087-WVZ006-007-051100-
CABELL WV-GALLIA OH-LAWRENCE OH-MASON WV-
616 AM EDT THU JUL 5 2012

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CABELL...SOUTHEASTERN
LAWRENCE...SOUTHERN GALLIA AND SOUTHWESTERN MASON COUNTIES...

AT 615 AM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTH OF
RIO GRANDE...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH AND HAIL UP TO DIME SIZE ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR ASHTON AROUND 640 AM...CROWN CITY AROUND 645
AM...SCOTTOWN AROUND 655 AM AND ATHALIA AROUND 700 AM.

THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING INTERSTATE...I-64 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS
6 AND 31 IN WEST VIRGINIA.

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

LAT...LON 3881 8242 3882 8221 3848 8206 3838 8205
      3832 8229 3840 8251

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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, 2:07 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Barbour, Harrison, Taylor	53 min
Jul 5, 2:50 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Barbour, Randolph, Taylor	38 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

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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.