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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV

January 30, 2013Buchanan County, Dickenson County, Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Jan 30, 2013, 3:03 PM EST for Buchanan County, Dickenson County, Virginia. It was in force for 87 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: Jan 30, 2013, 3:03 PM EST (20:03 UTC)
Expired: Jan 30, 2013, 4:30 PM EST
In force: 87 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV

Counties Buchanan County, VA, Dickenson County, VA

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 227 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: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 561 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 299 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 488 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.

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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 Jan 30, 2:28 PM EST, 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 30, 2:28 PM EST, 35 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 30, 12:45 PM EST, 2 hours 18 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 30, 11:45 AM EST, 3 hours 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 30, 11:46 AM EST, 3 hours 17 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 30, 11:47 AM EST, 3 hours 16 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jan 30, 12:01 PM EST, 3 hours 2 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 30, 12:06 PM EST, 2 hours 57 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jan 30, 3:03 PM EST, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
303 PM EST WED JAN 30 2013

VAZ003-004-WVZ024-033-302130-
BUCHANAN VA-DICKENSON VA-MCDOWELL WV-MINGO WV-
303 PM EST WED JAN 30 2013

...HEAVY RAINFALL WILL AFFECT BUCHANAN...DICKENSON...SOUTHEASTERN
MINGO AND WESTERN MCDOWELL COUNTIES...

AT 256 PM EST...HEAVY RAINFALL WAS LOCATED OVER THE REGION AND WILL
CAUSE WATER TO POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES AND
SMALL STREAMS.

MANY STREAMS AND CREEKS ARE RUNNING HIGH AND THERE MAY BE SOME MINOR
WATER PROBLEMS IN THE USUAL LOW AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.

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.

YOU MAY REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER BY POSTING YOUR REPORT TO THE
CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FACEBOOK PAGE...OR
BY USING THE TWITTER HASHTAG...NWSRLX.

LAT...LON 3705 8250 3721 8255 3729 8233 3753 8199
      3753 8205 3763 8194 3723 8156 3719 8166
      3723 8173 3718 8180 3713 8192 3712 8200
      3704 8204 3703 8217 3695 8235

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 30, 4:18 AM EST	High Wind Warning	RLX		29 hr
Jan 30, 4:18 AM EST	Wind Advisory	RLX	Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 22 more	29 hr
Jan 30, 8:00 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Mason	60 min
Jan 30, 8:10 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell, Lincoln, Mingo, Wayne	65 min
Jan 30, 8:44 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Jackson, Pleasants, Putnam, Roane, Wirt, Wood	46 min
Jan 30, 8:55 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Boone, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, Mingo	50 min
Jan 30, 9:32 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Boone, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge, Gilmer, Kanawha and 7 more	43 min
Jan 30, 10:07 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Barbour, Braxton, Clay, Fayette, Gilmer, Harrison and 6 more	38 min
Jan 30, 10:12 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	McDowell, Wyoming	48 min
Jan 30, 10:50 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Barbour, Fayette, Nicholas, Pocahontas, Raleigh, Randolph and 3 more	40 min
Jan 30, 11:03 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Pocahontas, Randolph, Webster	42 min
Jan 30, 11:36 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Pocahontas	39 min
Jan 30, 11:37 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Tucker	38 min
Jan 30, 12:01 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Pocahontas	44 min
Jan 30, 4:09 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Fayette, McDowell, Nicholas, Raleigh, Wyoming	6 hr
Jan 30, 4:14 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Barbour, Pocahontas, Randolph, Upshur, Webster	3 hr
Jan 30, 7:25 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Gallia, Jackson, Lawrence, Perry, Vinton	65 min
Jan 30, 8:27 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Lawrence	33 min
Jan 30, 9:50 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Dickenson	40 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Virginia, 2013 Every special weather statement in 2013

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.