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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV

May 13, 20145 counties in West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at May 13, 2014, 11:31 PM EDT for 5 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 104 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, 11:31 PM EDT (03:31 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 2014, 1:15 AM EDT
In force: 104 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV

Counties Doddridge County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tyler County, WV

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KAGC), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 114 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: 368 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1939 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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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 May 13, 10:27 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 13, 10:27 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 13, 11:06 AM EDT, 12 hours 25 minutes before

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

Local storm report, May 13, 9:56 PM EDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
956 PM EDT TUE MAY 13 2014

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

0955 PM     FLASH FLOOD      1 NW SUTTON             38.68N  80.72W
05/13/2014                   BRAXTON            WV   911 CALL CENTER

            RT 4 19 CLOSED DUE TO 2FT WATER OVER ROAD FROM GRANNY
            CREEK

&&

EVENT NUMBER RLX1400921

JM

Local storm report, May 13, 10:11 PM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 13, 10:22 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 13, 10:29 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 13, 10:36 PM EDT, 55 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 13, 11:31 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
May 13, 9:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Jackson, Kanawha, Mason, Putnam, Roane, Wirt and 1 more	110 min
May 13, 9:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Kanawha, Putnam	29 min
May 13, 9:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Kanawha, Putnam, Roane, Wirt	30 min
May 13, 9:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Calhoun, Jackson, Roane, Wirt	47 min
May 13, 10:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Pleasants, Ritchie, Tyler	39 min
May 14, 9:28 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Putnam	62 min
May 14, 11:33 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Barbour	57 min
May 14, 12:00 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Barbour, Randolph	3 hr
May 14, 12:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Pocahontas, Randolph	59 min
May 14, 1:29 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Pocahontas	3 hr
May 14, 1:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Taylor, Upshur	67 min
May 14, 2:17 PM EDT	Flood Watch	RLX	Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 22 more	20 hr
May 14, 5:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison, Ritchie, Tyler	56 min
May 14, 6:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Doddridge, Ritchie, Tyler	64 min
May 14, 6:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Doddridge, Harrison	39 min
May 14, 2:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Perry	62 min
May 14, 5:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Vinton	46 min
May 14, 6:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Perry, Vinton	52 min
May 14, 7:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens, Morgan, Perry	60 min
May 14, 7:56 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Greenup	64 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in West Virginia, 2014 Every 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.