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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV

June 12, 201610 counties in West Virginia; 4 counties in Kentucky

NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Jun 12, 2016, 2:27 PM EDT for 10 counties in West Virginia; 4 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 33 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 12, 2016, 2:27 PM EDT (18:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2016, 3:00 PM EDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV

Counties Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Boone County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wyoming County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 226 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2016-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 425 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2016-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 104 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
425 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-95 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1431 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Jun 12, 2:23 PM EDT, 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 2:23 PM EDT, 4 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 12, 2:27 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 3:17 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXBoone28 min
Jun 12, 3:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXMingo31 min
Jun 12, 4:18 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXLincoln27 min
Jun 12, 4:52 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXFayette23 min
Jun 12, 5:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXWayne29 min
Jun 12, 5:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXSummers30 min
Jun 12, 5:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXWayne31 min
Jun 12, 5:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXFayette31 min
Jun 12, 6:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXWayne30 min
Jun 12, 6:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXWayne31 min
Jun 12, 6:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXWayne32 min
Jun 12, 7:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXWayne31 min
Jun 12, 2:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXMartin31 min
Jun 12, 3:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXLawrence25 min
Jun 12, 3:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXLawrence30 min
Jun 12, 4:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXLawrence15 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in West Virginia, 2016Special Weather Statements in Kentucky, 2016Every special weather statement in 2016

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.