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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at May 13, 2014, 1:39 PM EDT for Pocahontas County, West Virginia. It was in force for 51 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
- May 13, 2014, 1:39 PM EDT (17:39 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2014, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
County Pocahontas County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 204 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -145 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1157 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 May 13, 1:16 PM EDT, 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 13, 1:16 PM EDT, 23 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1106 AM EDT TUE MAY 13 2014 KYZ103-105-OHZ076-VAZ003-004-WVZ005>011-013>020-024>040-046-047- 141515- BOYD-LAWRENCE KY-WASHINGTON-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- 1106 AM EDT TUE MAY 13 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...SOUTHEAST OHIO...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND MUCH OF WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THERE IS A POSSIBILITY OF HIGH WATER ON STREAMS...CREEKS...AND RIVERS THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. KYZ101-102-OHZ066-067-075-083>087-141515- GREENUP-CARTER-PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-JACKSON OH-VINTON-MEIGS-GALLIA- LAWRENCE OH- 1106 AM EDT TUE MAY 13 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST OHIO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE OHIO VALLEY ON WEDNESDAY. THERE IS A POSSIBILITY OF HIGH WATER ON STREAMS...CREEKS...AND RIVERS THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 13, 1:39 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 2:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 3 hr |
| May 13, 5:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Braxton, Clay, Fayette, Lewis, Nicholas, Raleigh and 2 more | 2 hr |
| May 13, 5:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Fayette, Nicholas | 2 hr |
| May 13, 7:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Boone, Cabell, Calhoun, Gilmer, Kanawha, Lewis and 7 more | 91 min |
| May 13, 7:36 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Barbour, Braxton, Harrison, Lewis, Taylor, Upshur and 1 more | 84 min |
| May 13, 7:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Logan, Mingo | 2 hr |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in West Virginia, 2014Every special weather statement in 2014
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.