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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV

April 3, 2015Carter County, Greenup County, Kentucky

NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Apr 3, 2015, 9:50 AM EDT for Carter County, Greenup County, Kentucky. It was in force for 115 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: Apr 3, 2015, 9:50 AM EDT (13:50 UTC)
Expired: Apr 3, 2015, 11:45 AM EDT
In force: 115 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV

Counties Carter County, KY, Greenup County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:54 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, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -82 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 840 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -55 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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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 Apr 3, 7:03 AM EDT, 2 hours 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 7:03 AM EDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 3, 6:43 AM EDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 3, 9:50 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
950 AM EDT FRI APR 3 2015

KYZ101-102-031545-
CARTER KY-GREENUP KY-
950 AM EDT FRI APR 3 2015

...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR GREENUP AND CARTER COUNTIES UNTIL
1145 AM EDT...

AT 941 AM EDT...AN AREA OF SHOWERS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL THIS MORNING
HAS CAUSED RISES ON AREA STREAMS AND PONDING IN LOW LYING ARRAS.
SOME VULNERABLE SECTIONS OF ROADWAY MAY BE WATER COVERED.

THE RAIN HAS BEGUN DIMINISHING AND THIS TREND WILL CONTINUE THIS
MORNING.  HOWEVER...ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IS
EXPECTED LATER TODAY...AND A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE
AREA.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE ELEVATED LEVELS ON
SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...AND PONDING OF WATER ON COUNTRY ROADS AND
FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

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 3834 8323 3842 8323 3859 8307 3872 8303
      3876 8289 3859 8285 3856 8280 3855 8270
      3851 8267 3839 8281 3836 8277 3824 8280
      3819 8285 3817 8294 3820 8302 3818 8305
      3823 8309 3826 8318 3819 8327 3832 8334

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 2, 8:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Calhoun, Ritchie, Wirt	28 min
Apr 2, 8:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Cabell, Lincoln, Putnam, Wayne	31 min
Apr 3, 5:08 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Wayne	6 hr
Apr 3, 5:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Cabell, Mason, Putnam	6 hr
Apr 3, 6:30 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Lincoln, Wayne	3 hr
Apr 3, 6:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wayne	24 min
Apr 3, 7:31 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Boone, Fayette, Kanawha, Logan, Raleigh, Wyoming	3 hr
Apr 3, 11:56 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Lawrence	6 hr
Apr 3, 12:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Gallia, Meigs	118 min
Apr 3, 10:36 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	RLX	Carter, Greenup	43 hr

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.