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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV

July 28, 2016Dickenson County, Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Jul 28, 2016, 1:48 AM EDT for Dickenson County, Virginia. It was in force for 27 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 28, 2016, 1:48 AM EDT (05:48 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2016, 2:15 AM EDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV

County Dickenson County, VA

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 249 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: 1188 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 864 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.5

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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 28, 1:36 AM EDT, 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 1:36 AM EDT, 12 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 27, 2:52 PM EDT, 10 hours 56 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
252 PM EDT WED JUL 27 2016

OHZ066-067-075-076-084-VAZ003-004-WVZ010-011-033>035-281900-
PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON-VINTON-DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-PLEASANTS-
TYLER-MCDOWELL-WYOMING-RALEIGH-
252 PM EDT WED JUL 27 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST
OHIO...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...AND PORTIONS OF NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA
AND SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

A STORM SYSTEM IS FORECAST TO MOVE ACROSS THE REGION THURSDAY INTO
FRIDAY...WITH LOCALIZED DOWNPOURS EXPECTED. THIS COULD PRODUCE
LOCALIZED FLOODING ISSUES ALONG STREAMS...CREEKS...AND ROADS. IF
CONFIDENCE IN THIS INCREASES...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MAY BE
NECESSARY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER
 CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.

KYZ101>103-105-OHZ083-085>087-WVZ005>009-013>020-024>032-036>040-046-
047-281900-
GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE KY-JACKSON OH-MEIGS-GALLIA-LAWRENCE OH-
WAYNE-CABELL-MASON-JACKSON WV-WOOD-LINCOLN-PUTNAM-KANAWHA-ROANE-WIRT-
CALHOUN-RITCHIE-DODDRIDGE-MINGO-LOGAN-BOONE-CLAY-BRAXTON-GILMER-
LEWIS-HARRISON-TAYLOR-FAYETTE-NICHOLAS-WEBSTER-UPSHUR-BARBOUR-
POCAHONTAS-RANDOLPH-
252 PM EDT WED JUL 27 2016

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM THURSDAY MORNING THROUGH FRIDAY
MORNING...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...PORTIONS
OF SOUTHEAST OHIO AND MUCH OF WEST VIRGINIA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE
INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS.

   FLASH FLOOD WATCH.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER
 CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 28, 1:48 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

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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, 8:08 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Wayne	3 hr
Jul 28, 3:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boone, Fayette, Kanawha, Raleigh	31 min
Jul 28, 3:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Nicholas	62 min
Jul 28, 3:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Braxton, Clay, Nicholas, Webster	29 min
Jul 28, 4:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Webster	56 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in 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.