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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV

April 10, 2015Cabell County, Lincoln County, Wayne County, West Virginia; 4 counties in Ohio; 4 counties in Kentucky

NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Apr 10, 2015, 3:34 AM EDT for Cabell County, Lincoln County, Wayne County, West Virginia; 4 counties in Ohio; 4 counties in Kentucky. 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: Apr 10, 2015, 3:34 AM EDT (07:34 UTC)
Expired: Apr 10, 2015, 4:30 AM EDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV

Counties Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Gallia County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Cabell County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Wayne County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 145 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: 849 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1308 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 252 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 283 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 11.8

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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 10, 1:54 AM EDT, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 10, 1:54 AM EDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 9, 10:17 PM EDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 10, 3:34 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
334 AM EDT FRI APR 10 2015

KYZ101>103-105-OHZ083-084-086-087-WVZ005-006-013-100830-
BOYD KY-CABELL WV-CARTER KY-GALLIA OH-GREENUP KY-JACKSON OH-
LAWRENCE OH-LAWRENCE KY-LINCOLN WV-VINTON OH-WAYNE WV-
334 AM EDT FRI APR 10 2015

...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR GREENUP...CARTER...BOYD AND LAWRENCE
COUNTIES IN KENTUCKY...AND VINTON...LAWRENCE...JACKSON AND GALLIA
COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST OHIO...AND WAYNE...CABELL AND NORTHWESTERN
LINCOLN COUNTIES IN WEST VIRGINIA UNTIL 430 AM EDT...

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OVERSPREAD THE AREA THROUGH 430 AM EDT.

WIND GUSTS TO 35 TO 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE
STORMS. VERY HEAVY RAIN OF QUARTER TO HALF INCH PER HOUR IS POSSIBLE
WITH THE STRONGER STORMS...WHICH WILL CAUSE WATER TO POND ON ROADS
AND QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES AND SMALL STREAMS.

THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING INTERSTATES...I-64 BETWEEN MILE
MARKERS 149 AND 191 IN KENTUCKY...AND BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 1 AND 32
IN WEST VIRGINIA.

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 3872 8304 3876 8289 3859 8276 3880 8266
      3895 8281 3937 8276 3939 8240 3859 8219
      3859 8222 3826 8200 3828 8197 3827 8197
      3785 8242 3795 8252 3788 8263 3796 8299
      3817 8292 3823 8331 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 9, 8:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Mason, Wirt, Wood	23 min
Apr 9, 8:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Randolph	52 min
Apr 9, 9:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Barbour, Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison, Lewis, Pleasants and 4 more	63 min
Apr 10, 4:33 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Wayne	117 min
Apr 10, 5:58 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Wood	3 hr
Apr 10, 6:38 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Mason	37 min
Apr 10, 6:40 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Pleasants	35 min
Apr 10, 7:16 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Jackson, Pleasants, Ritchie, Tyler, Wirt, Wood	44 min
Apr 10, 7:41 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Doddridge, Pleasants, Ritchie, Tyler, Wood	3 hr
Apr 10, 7:58 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Doddridge, Harrison, Ritchie	62 min
Apr 10, 8:33 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Braxton, Clay, Gilmer, Kanawha, Lewis, Nicholas and 2 more	57 min
Apr 10, 9:33 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Lewis, Pocahontas, Randolph, Upshur, Webster	57 min
Apr 10, 10:08 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Barbour, Braxton, Calhoun, Gilmer, Harrison, Lewis and 6 more	37 min
Apr 10, 10:16 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Pocahontas, Randolph, Webster	29 min
Apr 10, 12:08 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	RLX	Jackson, Wood	63 hr
Apr 10, 2:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Pleasants, Tyler, Wood	3 hr
Apr 10, 5:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Pleasants, Tyler, Wood	6 hr
Apr 10, 4:39 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Athens, Jackson, Vinton	3 hr
Apr 10, 6:32 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Perry	3 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Ohio, 2015 Special Weather Statements in Kentucky, 2015 Special Weather Statements in West Virginia, 2015 Every special weather statement in 2015

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.