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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV

June 18, 2013Pleasants County, Wood County, West Virginia; Athens County, Morgan County, Washington County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Jun 18, 2013, 11:36 AM EDT for Pleasants County, Wood County, West Virginia; Athens County, Morgan County, Washington County, Ohio. It was in force for 114 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: Jun 18, 2013, 11:36 AM EDT (15:36 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 2013, 1:30 PM EDT
In force: 114 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV

Counties Athens County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Washington County, OH, Pleasants County, WV, Wood County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 168 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: 152 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -122 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1033 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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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 Jun 18, 9:58 AM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 9:58 AM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 18, 6:31 AM EDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
631 AM EDT TUE JUN 18 2013

OHZ066-067-075-083-084-191045-
PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-JACKSON OH-VINTON-
631 AM EDT TUE JUN 18 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OHIO.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON
AND EVENING. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE THE MAIN THREAT
FROM THESE STORMS. WATER PROBLEMS CAN NOT BE RULED OUT WITH SLOW
MOVING STORMS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER
CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.

KYZ101>103-105-OHZ076-085>087-VAZ003-004-WVZ005>011-013>020-024>040-
046-047-191045-
GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE KY-WASHINGTON-MEIGS-GALLIA-LAWRENCE OH-
DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-WAYNE-CABELL-MASON-JACKSON WV-WOOD-PLEASANTS-
TYLER-LINCOLN-PUTNAM-KANAWHA-ROANE-WIRT-CALHOUN-RITCHIE-DODDRIDGE-
MINGO-LOGAN-BOONE-CLAY-BRAXTON-GILMER-LEWIS-HARRISON-TAYLOR-MCDOWELL-
WYOMING-RALEIGH-FAYETTE-NICHOLAS-WEBSTER-UPSHUR-BARBOUR-POCAHONTAS-
RANDOLPH-
631 AM EDT TUE JUN 18 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST
KENTUCKY...SOUTHEAST OHIO...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND MUCH OF WEST
VIRGINIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

A COLD FRONT AND DAYTIME HEATING COULD RESULT IN A FEW STRONG
STORMS TODAY THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. SOME OF THESE STORMS
COULD PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN. WATER
PROBLEMS CAN NOT BE RULED OUT WITH SLOW MOVING STORMS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 18, 9:45 AM EDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 18, 9:54 AM EDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 18, 10:54 AM EDT, 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
1054 AM EDT TUE JUN 18 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1015 AM     FLASH FLOOD      6 E SPENCER             38.80N  81.25W
06/18/2013                   ROANE              WV   BROADCAST MEDIA

            PORTION OF LAUREL RUN OUT OF ITS BANKS AND FLOODING
            ARNOLDSBURG ROAD.

&&

EVENT NUMBER RLX1300654

NW

Local storm report, Jun 18, 11:11 AM EDT, 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
1111 AM EDT TUE JUN 18 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1109 AM     FLASH FLOOD      THORNTON                39.35N  79.94W
06/18/2013                   TAYLOR             WV   PUBLIC

            WATER APPROXIMATELY 1 FOOT DEEP FLOWING ACROSS ROUTE
            50.

&&

EVENT NUMBER RLX1300655

LZ

Special weather statement, Jun 18, 11:17 AM EDT, 19 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
1117 AM EDT TUE JUN 18 2013

OHZ076-WVZ010-011-019-020-030>032-040-181715-
BARBOUR WV-DODDRIDGE WV-HARRISON WV-LEWIS WV-PLEASANTS WV-RITCHIE WV-
TAYLOR WV-TYLER WV-WASHINGTON OH-
1117 AM EDT TUE JUN 18 2013

...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL AFFECT
BARBOUR...DODDRIDGE...HARRISON...NORTHEASTERN RITCHIE...NORTHEASTERN
WASHINGTON...NORTHERN LEWIS...PLEASANTS...TAYLOR AND TYLER
COUNTIES...

AT 1112 AM EDT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL
WERE SLOWLY MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH THROUGH THE AREA.

VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THESE STORMS...AND WILL CAUSE
WATER TO POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES AND SMALL
STREAMS.

THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING INTERSTATE...I-79 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS
104 AND 129.

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 3948 8071 3944 8055 3947 8049 3944 8028
      3940 8020 3939 8008 3946 7993 3931 7989
      3923 7980 3911 7982 3906 7986 3907 8016
      3911 8022 3908 8031 3909 8071 3958 8139
      3958 8104 3955 8103 3959 8099 3959 8083

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Special weather statement, Jun 18, 11:36 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
1136 AM EDT TUE JUN 18 2013

OHZ066-067-075-076-WVZ009-010-019-181730-
ATHENS OH-MORGAN OH-PERRY OH-PLEASANTS WV-RITCHIE WV-WASHINGTON OH-
WOOD WV-
1136 AM EDT TUE JUN 18 2013

...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL AFFECT
ATHENS...MORGAN...NORTHERN RITCHIE...NORTHERN
WOOD...PLEASANTS...SOUTHEASTERN PERRY AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES...

AT 1130 AM EDT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL
WERE SLOWLY MOVING EAST THROUGH THE AREA.

VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THESE STORMS...AND WILL CAUSE WATER
TO POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES AND SMALL
STREAMS.

THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING INTERSTATES...I-77 BETWEEN MILE
MARKERS 1 AND 17 IN OHIO...AND BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 171 AND 186 IN
WEST VIRGINIA.

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 3970 8163 3967 8162 3966 8158 3959 8158
      3959 8149 3965 8147 3924 8092 3919 8169
      3921 8218 3955 8217 3955 8218 3972 8218

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 8:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Summers	57 min
Jun 17, 9:14 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Raleigh	3 hr
Jun 17, 10:09 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Raleigh	3 hr
Jun 18, 1:28 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Cabell, Lincoln	62 min
Jun 18, 2:14 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Boone, Kanawha	61 min
Jun 18, 3:18 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Clay	57 min
Jun 18, 4:15 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Calhoun, Gilmer	60 min
Jun 18, 8:36 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Roane	3 hr
Jun 18, 9:54 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Calhoun, Gilmer, Pleasants, Ritchie, Wirt, Wood	111 min
Jun 18, 11:17 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Barbour, Doddridge, Harrison, Taylor, Tyler	118 min
Jun 18, 3:44 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	RLX	Barbour, Braxton, Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison and 10 more	6 hr
Jun 18, 8:29 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Vinton	46 min
Jun 18, 3:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Perry	61 min
Jun 18, 3:55 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Perry	3 hr

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.