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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV

June 24, 2014Roane County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Jun 24, 2014, 8:18 PM EDT for Roane County, West Virginia. It was in force for 27 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 24, 2014, 8:18 PM EDT (00:18 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2014, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV

County Roane County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KAGC), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 216 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: 652 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1347 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 122 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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The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 8:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Putnam	37 min
Jun 24, 8:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Jackson, Roane, Wirt, Wood	46 min
Jun 24, 9:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Tyler	45 min
Jun 25, 11:39 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Pleasants, Ritchie, Tyler, Wirt, Wood	36 min
Jun 25, 1:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Pleasants	64 min
Jun 24, 9:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Washington	32 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.