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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV

November 6, 201413 counties in West Virginia; Buchanan County, Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Nov 6, 2014, 1:49 PM EST for 13 counties in West Virginia; Buchanan County, Virginia. It was in force for 56 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: Nov 6, 2014, 1:49 PM EST (18:49 UTC)
Expired: Nov 6, 2014, 2:45 PM EST
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV

Counties Buchanan County, VA, Boone County, WV, Clay County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Roane County, WV, Wyoming County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:50 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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 270 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 765 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 339 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 269 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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
Nov 6, 2:49 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay, Fayette and 16 more	86 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in West Virginia, 2014 Special Weather Statements in 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.