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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Jun 18, 2015, 8:14 PM EDT for Wood County, West Virginia; Meigs County, Ohio. It was in force for 46 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 18, 2015, 8:14 PM EDT (00:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 2015, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
Counties Meigs County, OH, Wood County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KAGC), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 192 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 563 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1146 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 4.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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 18, 7:45 PM EDT, 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 7:45 PM EDT, 29 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 521 PM EDT THU JUN 18 2015 KYZ101>103-105-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-WVZ005>011-013-014-017-019- 192130- GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE KY-PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON- JACKSON OH-VINTON-MEIGS-GALLIA-LAWRENCE OH-WAYNE-CABELL-MASON- JACKSON WV-WOOD-PLEASANTS-TYLER-LINCOLN-PUTNAM-WIRT-RITCHIE- 521 PM EDT THU JUN 18 2015 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 311 IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...SOUTHEAST OHIO AND MUCH OF WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. ALSO...IF HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS WERE TO MOVE OVER THE SAME AREA...FLASH FLOODING COULD OCCUR. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. ROUNDS OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE WEEKEND COULD CAUSE FLASH FLOODING...PARTICULARLY IF REPETITIVE STORMS OCCUR. THE AREAL COVERAGE IS EXPECTED TO BE GREATEST SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND SATURDAY NIGHT. SOME HEADWATER RIVERS COULD SHOW SIGNIFICANT RISES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. VAZ003-004-WVZ015-016-018-020-024>040-046-047-192130- DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-KANAWHA-ROANE-CALHOUN-DODDRIDGE-MINGO-LOGAN-BOONE- CLAY-BRAXTON-GILMER-LEWIS-HARRISON-TAYLOR-MCDOWELL-WYOMING-RALEIGH- FAYETTE-NICHOLAS-WEBSTER-UPSHUR-BARBOUR-POCAHONTAS-RANDOLPH- 521 PM EDT THU JUN 18 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...AND PORTIONS OF CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. HEAVIER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE TO MOVE OVER THE SAME AREA...FLASH FLOODING COULD OCCUR ALONG SMALL STREAMS. A FEW STORMS COULD PULSE TO STRONGER LEVELS THIS EVENING... RESULTING IN SOME LOCAL STRONG WIND GUSTS AND HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. ROUNDS OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE WEEKEND COULD CAUSE FLASH FLOODING...PARTICULARLY IF REPETITIVE STORMS OCCUR. THE AREAL COVERAGE IS EXPECTED TO BE GREATEST SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND SATURDAY NIGHT. SOME HEADWATER RIVERS COULD SHOW SIGNIFICANT RISES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. KTB
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Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 8:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Pleasants, Tyler | 40 min |
| Jun 18, 9:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Randolph | 53 min |
| Jun 18, 10:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Randolph | 66 min |
| Jun 19, 2:42 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RLX | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 22 more | 32 hr |
| Jun 19, 5:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Mingo | 64 min |
| Jun 19, 2:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Carter, Greenup | 55 min |
| Jun 19, 4:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Carter, Lawrence | 64 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in West Virginia, 2015Special Weather Statements in Ohio, 2015Every 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.