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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV

June 27, 2013Pleasants County, Ritchie County, West Virginia; Morgan County, Washington County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Jun 27, 2013, 8:04 PM EDT for Pleasants County, Ritchie County, West Virginia; Morgan County, Washington County, Ohio. It was in force for 56 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 27, 2013, 8:04 PM EDT (00:04 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2013, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV

Counties Morgan County, OH, Washington County, OH, Pleasants County, WV, Ritchie County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 172 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: 787 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 690 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.0

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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 Jun 27, 7:34 PM EDT, 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 7:34 PM EDT, 30 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 3:39 PM EDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 27, 8:04 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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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 27, 9:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Calhoun, Pleasants, Ritchie, Roane, Wirt, Wood	38 min
Jun 28, 3:31 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Mason	44 min
Jun 28, 11:47 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Barbour	43 min
Jun 28, 12:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Wirt	47 min
Jun 28, 1:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Doddridge, Pleasants, Tyler	61 min
Jun 28, 2:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Barbour, Harrison, Taylor	45 min
Jun 28, 4:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Gilmer, Lewis, Upshur	44 min
Jun 28, 4:58 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Harrison, Taylor	2 hr
Jun 28, 5:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Barbour, Randolph, Upshur	24 min
Jun 28, 5:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Randolph	36 min
Jun 28, 5:45 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Barbour, Randolph, Upshur	3 hr
Jun 27, 9:39 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Morgan, Perry, Washington	3 hr
Jun 28, 2:44 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Gallia, Jackson	46 min
Jun 28, 1:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Athens, Meigs, Vinton	58 min
Jun 28, 2:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens, Meigs, Vinton	56 min
Jun 28, 6:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Athens, Meigs	39 min
Jun 28, 7:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Morgan	55 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.