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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Jul 19, 2012, 1:53 PM EDT for Boyd County, Lawrence County, Kentucky. It was in force for 67 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 19, 2012, 1:53 PM EDT (17:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 2012, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
Counties Boyd County, KY, Lawrence County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 922 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1009 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 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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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 19, 11:19 AM EDT, 2 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 11:19 AM EDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 19, 1:09 PM EDT, 44 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
109 PM EDT THU JUL 19 2012
KYZ101-102-191815-
CARTER KY-GREENUP KY-
109 PM EDT THU JUL 19 2012
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN GREENUP AND WESTERN
CARTER COUNTIES...
AT 100 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 13 MILES NORTH OF
MOREHEAD...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
WIND GUSTS TO 40 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. 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 SOLDIER AROUND 135 PM...GLOBE AROUND 140
PM...OLIVE HILL AROUND 150 PM...CARTER CAVES STATE PARK AROUND 155 PM
AND GRAHN AROUND 210 PM.
THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING INTERSTATE...I-64 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS
149 AND 170 IN KENTUCKY.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE ELEVATED LEVELS ON
SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...AND PONDING OF WATER IN URBAN AREAS...
HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER POOR DRAINAGE
AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.
IN HILLY TERRAIN THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS WHICH ARE
POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL ACROSS
FLOODED ROADS. FIND ALTERNATE ROUTES. IT TAKES ONLY A FEW INCHES OF
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER TO CARRY VEHICLES AWAY.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
PLEASE REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.
LAT...LON 3834 8332 3833 8328 3834 8324 3842 8324
3854 8315 3847 8291 3820 8306 3826 8316
3824 8321 3819 8324 3819 8327 3821 8331
3832 8334
14Special weather statement, Jul 19, 1:53 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
153 PM EDT THU JUL 19 2012
KYZ101>103-105-WVZ005-191900-
BOYD KY-CARTER KY-GREENUP KY-LAWRENCE KY-WAYNE WV-
153 PM EDT THU JUL 19 2012
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT BOYD...EASTERN CARTER...
LAWRENCE...NORTHWESTERN WAYNE AND SOUTH CENTRAL GREENUP COUNTIES...
AT 148 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES EAST OF
CARTER CAVES STATE PARK...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
WIND GUSTS TO 40 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. 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 GRAYSON AROUND 200 PM...HITCHINS...
HOPEWELL...AND OLDTOWN AROUND 205 PM...WILLARD AROUND 210 PM...
DENTON...WEBBVILLE...AND MARTHA AROUND 215 PM...HOUCKVILLE AND BLAINE
AROUND 220 PM.
THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING INTERSTATES...I-64 BETWEEN MILE
MARKERS 169 AND 191 IN KENTUCKY...AND BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 1 AND 5 IN
WEST VIRGINIA.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE ELEVATED LEVELS ON
SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...AND PONDING OF WATER IN URBAN AREAS...
HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER POOR DRAINAGE
AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.
IN HILLY TERRAIN THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS WHICH ARE
POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL ACROSS
FLOODED ROADS. FIND ALTERNATE ROUTES. IT TAKES ONLY A FEW INCHES OF
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER TO CARRY VEHICLES AWAY.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
PLEASE REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.
LAT...LON 3848 8291 3838 8245 3787 8262 3789 8267
3799 8291 3799 8296 3796 8299 3798 8303
3803 8301 3811 8290 3817 8292 3817 8298
3819 8302 3818 8306 3820 8307
14The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 9:48 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Cabell | 87 min |
| Jul 18, 10:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Logan | 84 min |
| Jul 19, 10:47 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RLX | Barbour, Braxton, Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison and 6 more | 9 hr |
| Jul 19, 2:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Cabell | 38 min |
| Jul 19, 2:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Lincoln, Putnam | 33 min |
| Jul 19, 3:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Boone, Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer, Kanawha, Lincoln and 7 more | 58 min |
| Jul 19, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Kanawha, Lincoln | 51 min |
| Jul 19, 4:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Barbour, Braxton, Clay, Fayette, Harrison, Lewis and 8 more | 54 min |
| Jul 19, 5:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Barbour, Fayette, Nicholas, Pocahontas, Raleigh, Randolph and 2 more | 46 min |
| Jul 18, 8:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Gallia | 38 min |
| Jul 19, 2:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Lawrence | 27 min |
| Jul 19, 2:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Morgan, Washington | 45 min |
| Jul 19, 1:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Carter | 66 min |
| Jul 19, 4:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Buchanan, Dickenson | 65 min |
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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.