Alert archive / Virginia / Special Weather Statements in 2016
Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Jul 8, 2016, 4:11 PM EDT for McDowell County, West Virginia; Buchanan County, Dickenson County, Virginia. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2016, 4:11 PM EDT (20:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2016, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
Counties Buchanan County, VA, Dickenson County, VA, McDowell County, WV
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 163 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -186 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 898 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
650
WWUS81 KRLX 082011
SPSRLX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
411 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2016
VAZ003-004-WVZ033-082215-
BUCHANAN-DICKENSON-MCDOWELL-
411 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2016
...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WILL AFFECT
DICKENSON...BUCHANAN AND SOUTHERN MCDOWELL COUNTIES...
AT 410 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY
RAINFALL WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM BEEFHIDE TO 8
MILES SOUTHEAST OF GRUNDY. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CLINTWOOD...GRUNDY...HAYSI...JOHN FLANNAGAN LAKE...DAVENPORT...
BREAKS INTERSTATE...GARY...WAR...NORTHFORK...BIG ROCK...TRAMMEL...
BRADSHAW...CLINCHCO...KEYSTONE...ANAWALT...JOLO...OAKWOOD...
COALWOOD...NORA AND CUCUMBER.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY CAUSE
LOCALIZED FLOODING. SHOULD MORE WIDEPSREAD FLOODING BECOME LIKELY
DUE TO REPETITIVE CELLS OVER ONE LOCATION...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
WOULD BE ISSUED.
IN HILLY TERRAIN THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS WHICH ARE
POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL ACROSS
FLOODED ROADS. FIND ALTERNATE ROUTES. IT TAKES ONLY A FEW INCHES OF
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER TO CARRY VEHICLES AWAY.
LAT...LON 3702 8248 3713 8255 3720 8255 3727 8235
3737 8222 3742 8132 3728 8142 3726 8150
3721 8156 3720 8168 3724 8174 3720 8176
3718 8185 3713 8192 3712 8200 3705 8204
3704 8217 3699 8226 3700 8229 3696 8235
TIME...MOT...LOC 2010Z 316DEG 13KT 3726 8264 3721 8198
$$
16The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 10:06 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RLX | Boone, Cabell, Clay, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan and 5 more | 10 hr |
| Jul 8, 1:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Cabell | 65 min |
| Jul 8, 2:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Lincoln, Mason, Putnam, Wayne | 44 min |
| Jul 8, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Logan, Mingo | 35 min |
| Jul 8, 2:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Kanawha, Lincoln, Putnam | 25 min |
| Jul 8, 3:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Kanawha, Logan, Mingo, Raleigh, Wyoming | 44 min |
| Jul 8, 3:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Boone, Fayette, Kanawha, Logan, Nicholas, Raleigh and 1 more | 110 min |
| Jul 8, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette, Raleigh, Wyoming | 40 min |
| Jul 8, 1:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Greenup | 41 min |
| Jul 8, 1:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Boyd, Carter | 52 min |
| Jul 8, 2:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Martin | 49 min |
Nearby
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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.