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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Aug 28, 2013, 3:25 PM EDT for Jackson County, Ohio. It was in force for 50 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 28, 2013, 3:25 PM EDT (19:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 2013, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
County Jackson County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 916 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 931 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 7.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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 Aug 28, 2:30 PM EDT, 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 28, 2:30 PM EDT, 55 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 909 AM EDT WED AUG 28 2013 OHZ066-067-075-076-085-WVZ007>011-014>020-027>032-036>040-046-047- 291315- PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON-MEIGS-MASON-JACKSON WV-WOOD-PLEASANTS- TYLER-PUTNAM-KANAWHA-ROANE-WIRT-CALHOUN-RITCHIE-DODDRIDGE-CLAY- BRAXTON-GILMER-LEWIS-HARRISON-TAYLOR-FAYETTE-NICHOLAS-WEBSTER-UPSHUR- BARBOUR-POCAHONTAS-RANDOLPH- 909 AM EDT WED AUG 28 2013 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OHIO AND MUCH OF WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLASH FLOOD WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. KYZ101>103-105-OHZ083-084-086-087-VAZ003-004-WVZ005-006-013-024>026- 033>035-291315- GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE KY-JACKSON OH-VINTON-GALLIA-LAWRENCE OH- DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-WAYNE-CABELL-LINCOLN-MINGO-LOGAN-BOONE-MCDOWELL- WYOMING-RALEIGH- 909 AM EDT WED AUG 28 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...SOUTHEAST OHIO...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST OHIO AND WEST VIRGINIA. SOME THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE HEAVY DOWNPOURS. REPETITIVE HEAVY DOWNPOURS OVER THE SAME AREAS MAY LEAD TO WATER ISSUES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. JSH
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 28, 9:56 AM EDT, 5 hours 29 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
325 PM EDT WED AUG 28 2013
OHZ083-086-087-282015-
GALLIA OH-JACKSON OH-LAWRENCE OH-
325 PM EDT WED AUG 28 2013
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL
LAWRENCE...JACKSON AND WEST CENTRAL GALLIA COUNTIES...
AT 324 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES EAST OF
WAVERLY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND HAIL UP TO DIME SIZE ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM. VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THIS STORM...AND WILL CAUSE
WATER TO POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES AND SMALL
STREAMS.
THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR PETERSBURG AROUND 350 PM...MABEE AROUND 400
PM...OAK HILL AROUND 410 PM AND GALLIA AROUND 415 PM.
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 3917 8279 3918 8277 3921 8277 3921 8272
3882 8232 3877 8266 3884 8266 3885 8277
3894 8276 3894 8279 3895 8281 3901 8281
28The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 7:31 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Barbour, Harrison | 89 min |
| Aug 28, 9:08 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RLX | Barbour, Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge, Gilmer and 14 more | 18 hr |
| Aug 28, 1:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Barbour, Harrison, Randolph, Upshur | 79 min |
| Aug 28, 3:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Jackson, Mason | 51 min |
| Aug 28, 3:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Randolph, Upshur | 48 min |
| Aug 28, 4:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Cabell | 74 min |
| Aug 28, 4:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Gilmer, Nicholas, Webster | 51 min |
| Aug 28, 4:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Randolph | 66 min |
| Aug 28, 5:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Barbour, Doddridge, Harrison, Taylor, Tyler | 68 min |
| Aug 28, 5:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Barbour, Harrison, Taylor, Upshur | 3 hr |
| Aug 28, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Wayne | 66 min |
| Aug 28, 5:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Cabell | 63 min |
| Aug 28, 6:52 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lewis, Upshur | 3 hr |
| Aug 28, 7:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph | 3 hr |
| Aug 28, 6:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson, Lawrence | 3 hr |
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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.