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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV

May 2, 2016Buchanan County, Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at May 2, 2016, 1:33 PM EDT for Buchanan County, Virginia. It was in force for 42 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: May 2, 2016, 1:33 PM EDT (17:33 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2016, 2:15 PM EDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV

County Buchanan County, VA

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 212 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: 215 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 706 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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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 May 2, 11:33 AM EDT, 2 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 2, 11:33 AM EDT, 2 hours before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 2, 12:47 PM EDT, 46 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 2, 7:45 AM EDT, 5 hours 48 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 2, 1:04 PM EDT, 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 2, 1:33 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
133 PM EDT MON MAY 2 2016

VAZ004-WVZ033-021815-
BUCHANAN-MCDOWELL-
133 PM EDT MON MAY 2 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN BUCHANAN AND
SOUTHWESTERN MCDOWELL COUNTIES...

AT 132 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 8 MILES WEST OF GLEN BURKE...
OR 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GRUNDY...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH AND DIME SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
GRUNDY...WAR...OAKWOOD AND VANSANT.

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY CAUSE
LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

LAT...LON 3726 8209 3735 8167 3720 8165 3720 8168
      3724 8172 3724 8174 3720 8176 3718 8185
      3713 8192 3713 8196 3712 8197 3713 8199
      3711 8201 3709 8202 3708 8202 3708 8206
TIME...MOT...LOC 1732Z 262DEG 14KT 3719 8199

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 2, 1:57 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Mason, Roane, Wirt, Wood	48 min
May 2, 2:58 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Gilmer, Ritchie, Wirt	62 min
May 2, 3:06 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	RLX	Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 22 more	18 hr
May 2, 6:04 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Pocahontas	26 min
May 2, 2:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	McDowell	43 min
May 2, 2:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Raleigh, Wyoming	40 min
May 2, 2:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boone, Logan, Mingo	53 min
May 2, 2:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Raleigh	49 min
May 2, 3:38 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Boone, Logan, McDowell, Mingo, Raleigh, Wyoming	6 hr
May 2, 3:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	McDowell	42 min
May 2, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	McDowell, Wyoming	35 min
May 2, 4:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Putnam, Wayne	4 hr
May 2, 4:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	McDowell, Raleigh, Wyoming	33 min
May 2, 4:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Fayette, Nicholas, Roane and 1 more	4 hr
May 2, 5:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Pocahontas	39 min
May 2, 5:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Pocahontas	31 min
May 1, 9:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Perry	36 min
May 2, 1:20 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Gallia, Meigs	55 min
May 1, 8:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Dickenson	59 min
May 1, 8:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Buchanan, Dickenson	46 min
May 2, 1:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Buchanan	26 min
May 2, 3:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Buchanan, Dickenson	4 hr
May 2, 4:33 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Buchanan, Dickenson	4 hr

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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.