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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Oct 18, 2012, 3:21 PM EDT for Braxton County, Upshur County, West Virginia. It was in force for 39 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
- Oct 18, 2012, 3:21 PM EDT (19:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 18, 2012, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
Counties Braxton County, WV, Upshur County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 671 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 233 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
105
WWUS81 KRLX 181921
SPSRLX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
321 PM EDT THU OCT 18 2012
WVZ028-030-038-039-047-182000-
BRAXTON WV-LEWIS WV-RANDOLPH WV-UPSHUR WV-WEBSTER WV-
321 PM EDT THU OCT 18 2012
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT BRAXTON...NORTHWESTERN
WEBSTER...SOUTHEASTERN LEWIS...UPSHUR AND WEST CENTRAL RANDOLPH
COUNTIES...
AT 319 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LITTLE
BIRCH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND HAIL UP TO NICKEL SIZE ARE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.
THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR CENTRALIA AROUND 330 PM...KANAWHA HEAD AROUND
345 PM AND TALLMANSVILLE AROUND 400 PM.
THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING INTERSTATE...I-79 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS
55 AND 71.
LAT...LON 3885 7993 3847 8066 3850 8068 3853 8065
3853 8068 3853 8074 3865 8085 3906 8025
$$
30The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 18, 1:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Boone, Kanawha, Lincoln | 46 min |
| Oct 18, 2:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Clay | 48 min |
| Oct 18, 2:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Boone | 42 min |
| Oct 18, 2:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Calhoun, Roane | 40 min |
| Oct 18, 2:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan | 23 min |
| Oct 18, 4:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Fayette, Raleigh | 43 min |
| Oct 18, 4:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Barbour, Nicholas, Randolph, Taylor, Upshur, Webster | 59 min |
| Oct 18, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Barbour | 32 min |
| Oct 18, 5:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph, Webster | 23 min |
| Oct 18, 6:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph | 43 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.