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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Jun 21, 2016, 12:05 PM EDT for Fayette County, West Virginia. It was in force for 25 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 21, 2016, 12:05 PM EDT (16:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2016, 12:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
County Fayette County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -192 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1020 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>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 21, 10:13 AM EDT, 1 hour 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 10:13 AM EDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 440 AM EDT TUE JUN 21 2016 KYZ101>103-105-OHZ083-085>087-VAZ003-004-WVZ005>011-013>020-024>040- 046-047-220845- GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE KY-JACKSON OH-MEIGS-GALLIA-LAWRENCE OH- DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-WAYNE-CABELL-MASON-JACKSON WV-WOOD-PLEASANTS- TYLER-LINCOLN-PUTNAM-KANAWHA-ROANE-WIRT-CALHOUN-RITCHIE-DODDRIDGE- MINGO-LOGAN-BOONE-CLAY-BRAXTON-GILMER-LEWIS-HARRISON-TAYLOR-MCDOWELL- WYOMING-RALEIGH-FAYETTE-NICHOLAS-WEBSTER-UPSHUR-BARBOUR-POCAHONTAS- RANDOLPH- 440 AM EDT TUE JUN 21 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST OHIO...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND MUCH OF WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY AND INTO THURSDAY NIGHT...DURING WHICH TIME AN EXCESSIVE RAINFALL THREAT MAY ALSO DEVELOP. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. OHZ066-067-075-076-084-220845- PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON-VINTON- 440 AM EDT TUE JUN 21 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST OHIO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...DURING WHICH TIME AN EXCESSIVE RAINFALL THREAT MAY ALSO DEVELOP. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. TRM / MZ
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 12:05 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
1205 PM EDT TUE JUN 21 2016
WVZ015-026-036-037-211630-
NICHOLAS-KANAWHA-BOONE-FAYETTE-
1205 PM EDT TUE JUN 21 2016
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT WESTERN FAYETTE AND SOUTHEASTERN
KANAWHA COUNTIES...
AT 1205 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER
CHESAPEAKE...OR 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CHARLESTON...MOVING EAST AT 35
MPH.
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH AND DIME SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
FAYETTEVILLE...OAK HILL...MONTGOMERY...CHESAPEAKE...MARMET...
ANSTED...BELLE...CEDAR GROVE...EAST BANK...GLASGOW...SMITHERS...
GAULEY BRIDGE...PRATT...HAWKS NEST STATE PARK...POWELLTON...
BURNWELL...HANDLEY...ESKDALE...SWISS AND SHARON.
THIS INCLUDES WEST VIRGINIA TURNPIKE BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 59 AND 92.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY CAUSE
LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
LAT...LON 3808 8164 3829 8159 3827 8123 3826 8123
3827 8122 3826 8105 3792 8113
TIME...MOT...LOC 1605Z 280DEG 31KT 3819 8151
09The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 12:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Nicholas | 30 min |
| Jun 21, 12:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Randolph | 36 min |
| Jun 21, 12:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Randolph | 34 min |
| Jun 21, 12:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Fayette | 29 min |
| Jun 21, 1:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Calhoun | 36 min |
| Jun 21, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Mason, Putnam | 30 min |
| Jun 21, 1:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Mason, Putnam | 26 min |
| Jun 21, 2:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph | 39 min |
| Jun 21, 2:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Kanawha, Putnam | 33 min |
| Jun 21, 2:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Nicholas, Pocahontas, Webster | 43 min |
| Jun 21, 2:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Clay, Kanawha, Nicholas, Roane | 48 min |
| Jun 21, 2:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wayne | 36 min |
| Jun 21, 2:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Nicholas, Pocahontas, Webster | 32 min |
| Jun 21, 3:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lincoln, Mingo, Wayne | 46 min |
| Jun 21, 3:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Fayette, Kanawha, Raleigh | 26 min |
| Jun 21, 3:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Nicholas, Pocahontas, Webster | 114 min |
| Jun 21, 3:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wayne | 44 min |
| Jun 21, 3:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Fayette, Kanawha | 112 min |
| Jun 21, 3:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Lincoln, Mingo, Wayne | 2 hr |
| Jun 21, 4:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Clay, Fayette, Kanawha, Nicholas, Putnam | 26 min |
| Jun 21, 5:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Summers | 58 min |
| Jun 21, 2:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boyd, Carter, Greenup, Lawrence | 42 min |
| Jun 21, 5:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Buchanan | 26 min |
| Jun 21, 6:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Buchanan | 53 min |
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Special Weather Statements in West Virginia, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.