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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV

July 27, 2016Raleigh County, Wyoming County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Jul 27, 2016, 2:47 PM EDT for Raleigh County, Wyoming County, West Virginia. It was in force for 58 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: Jul 27, 2016, 2:47 PM EDT (18:47 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 2016, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV

Counties Raleigh County, WV, Wyoming County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 203 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: 783 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 959 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.6

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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 Jul 27, 11:34 AM EDT, 3 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 11:34 AM EDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 27, 4:04 AM EDT, 10 hours 43 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 27, 12:57 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
1257 PM EDT WED JUL 27 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0645 PM     TSTM WND DMG     GRANTSVILLE             38.92N  81.09W
07/26/2016                   CALHOUN            WV   911 CALL CENTER

            MULTIPLE TREES DOWN ON ROUTE 5 JUST WEST OF TOWN

&&

EVENT NUMBER RLX1601276

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Special weather statement, Jul 27, 2:47 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
247 PM EDT WED JUL 27 2016

WVZ024-025-033>035-271945-
LOGAN-MCDOWELL-MINGO-WYOMING-RALEIGH-
247 PM EDT WED JUL 27 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN RALEIGH...
SOUTHEASTERN MINGO...NORTHWESTERN MCDOWELL...SOUTHERN LOGAN AND
WYOMING COUNTIES...

AT 246 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER HINCH...OR 16
MILES EAST OF WILLIAMSON...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

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

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
PINEVILLE...MULLENS...OCEANA...SOPHIA...MAN...R.D. BAILEY LAKE...
TWIN FALLS STATE PARK...MALLORY...GILBERT CREEK...HANOVER...HINCH...
CRAB ORCHARD...COAL CITY...AMHERSTDALE-ROBINETTE...GILBERT...
LESTER...RHODELL...HERNDON...CLEAR FORK AND JOSEPHINE.

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 3750 8195 3751 8193 3752 8194 3753 8194
      3753 8197 3755 8197 3753 8201 3755 8204
      3753 8205 3756 8208 3772 8210 3778 8158
      3776 8157 3778 8155 3781 8126 3756 8120
      3751 8121 3750 8126 3748 8127
TIME...MOT...LOC 1846Z 264DEG 32KT 3761 8198

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 27, 2:04 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	RLX	Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 20 more	30 hr
Jul 27, 3:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Mingo	67 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in West Virginia, 2016 Every 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.