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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Aug 8, 2012, 8:49 PM EDT for Doddridge County, Harrison County, West Virginia. It was in force for 26 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
- Aug 8, 2012, 8:49 PM EDT (00:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2012, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
Counties Doddridge County, WV, Harrison County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KAGC), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 1366 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1625 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WWUS81 KRLX 090049
SPSRLX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
849 PM EDT WED AUG 8 2012
WVZ020-030>032-090115-
DODDRIDGE WV-HARRISON WV-LEWIS WV-TAYLOR WV-
849 PM EDT WED AUG 8 2012
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT DODDRIDGE...HARRISON...NORTHERN
LEWIS AND TAYLOR COUNTIES...
AT 845 PM EDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG A LINE FROM 3 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF MANNINGTON TO 11 MILES WEST OF CLARKSBURG TO 13 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF HARRISVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND SMALL 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.
THIS LINE OF STORMS HAS ALSO PRODUCED HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH COULD
CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND IN POOR DRAINAGE
AREAS...ALONG WITH REDUCED VISIBILITY IN DOWNPOURS.
THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR WOLF SUMMIT AROUND 855 PM...SHINNSTON
AROUND 900 PM...MEADOWBROOK AROUND 905 PM AND WEST MILFORD AROUND 915
PM.
THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING INTERSTATE...I-79 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS
104 AND 129.
PLEASE REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.
LAT...LON 3944 8028 3940 8020 3941 8011 3939 8009
3940 8005 3918 8025 3896 8060 3905 8073
3910 8074 3911 8082 3918 8085 3944 8055
3944 8053 3947 8049
$$
16The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 8:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Doddridge, Harrison | 30 min |
| Aug 8, 9:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Barbour, Harrison, Taylor | 27 min |
| Aug 8, 11:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Gilmer | 23 min |
| Aug 9, 12:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Gilmer, Lewis | 29 min |
| Aug 9, 3:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Barbour | 23 min |
| Aug 9, 3:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Barbour, Randolph | 2 hr |
| Aug 9, 5:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Perry | 63 min |
| Aug 9, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Morgan, Perry | 43 min |
| Aug 9, 7:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Morgan | 32 min |
| Aug 9, 7:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Vinton | 24 min |
| Aug 9, 7:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Athens, Meigs, Vinton | 26 min |
| Aug 9, 6:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Dickenson | 53 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.