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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV

June 3, 2014Perry County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Jun 3, 2014, 2:13 PM EDT for Perry County, Ohio. It was in force for 32 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 3, 2014, 2:13 PM EDT (18:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2014, 2:45 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV

County Perry County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:16 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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 146 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: 374 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 673 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.2

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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 3, 1:38 PM EDT, 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 1:38 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 3, 4:31 AM EDT, 9 hours 42 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
431 AM EDT TUE JUN 3 2014

KYZ101>103-105-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-VAZ003-004-WVZ005>011-
013>020-024>040-046-047-040845-
GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE KY-PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON-
JACKSON OH-VINTON-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-
431 AM EDT TUE JUN 3 2014

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

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

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE A POSSIBILITY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT.
THE TIMING AND THE LEVEL OF THE THREAT REMAIN IN QUESTION.
HOWEVER...DAMAGING WIND GUSTS APPEAR TO BE THE PRIMARY THREAT.
LOCALIZED HIGH WATER MAY ALSO BE SEEN IN AREAS THAT RECEIVE
REPEATED DOWNPOURS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

KMC / TRM

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 3, 2:13 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
213 PM EDT TUE JUN 3 2014

OHZ066-031845-
PERRY OH-
213 PM EDT TUE JUN 3 2014

...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR NORTHERN PERRY COUNTY UNTIL 245 PM
EDT...

AT 212 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHEAST
OF SOMERSET...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR CROOKSVILLE AROUND 230 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 3992 8218 3991 8217 3990 8216 3983 8216
      3983 8210 3981 8207 3973 8208 3973 8209
      3980 8240 3993 8241

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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 3, 4:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Tyler	43 min
Jun 3, 4:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Pleasants, Ritchie	35 min
Jun 3, 5:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Doddridge, Pleasants, Ritchie, Tyler	27 min
Jun 3, 5:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wood	32 min
Jun 3, 5:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Doddridge, Harrison, Tyler	59 min
Jun 3, 5:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison, Lewis, Ritchie	36 min
Jun 3, 6:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Wirt, Wood	48 min
Jun 3, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Braxton, Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison, Lewis, Ritchie and 1 more	47 min
Jun 3, 6:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Ritchie, Roane, Wirt, Wood	41 min
Jun 3, 7:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Mason	45 min
Jun 3, 7:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Calhoun, Jackson, Roane, Wirt	26 min
Jun 3, 7:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Jackson, Mason, Putnam	49 min
Jun 3, 7:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell, Jackson, Kanawha, Mason, Putnam	34 min
Jun 3, 2:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Morgan	39 min
Jun 3, 4:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Athens	38 min
Jun 3, 4:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens, Morgan, Washington	33 min
Jun 3, 6:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Jackson	66 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.