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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV

August 2, 20164 counties in West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Aug 2, 2016, 2:04 PM EDT for 4 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 116 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: Aug 2, 2016, 2:04 PM EDT (18:04 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 2016, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 116 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV

Counties Braxton County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Roane County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 233 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: 90 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1040 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 32 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 Aug 2, 9:34 AM EDT, 4 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 9:34 AM EDT, 4 hours 30 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 2, 4:51 AM EDT, 9 hours 13 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
451 AM EDT TUE AUG 2 2016

KYZ101>103-105-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-VAZ003-004-WVZ005>011-
013>020-024>040-046-047-030900-
GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE KY-PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON-
JACKSON OH-VINTON-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-
451 AM EDT TUE AUG 2 2016

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

MZ / TRM

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 2, 2:04 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
204 PM EDT TUE AUG 2 2016

WVZ008-016>018-027>029-037-022000-
CLAY-CALHOUN-BRAXTON-NICHOLAS-ROANE-JACKSON-WIRT-GILMER-
204 PM EDT TUE AUG 2 2016

...AN AREA OF STRONG STORMS WILL AFFECT ROANE...SOUTHWESTERN
WIRT...NORTH CENTRAL NICHOLAS...CALHOUN...NORTHEASTERN CLAY...
SOUTHWESTERN GILMER...BRAXTON AND NORTHEASTERN JACKSON COUNTIES...

AT 201 PM EDT...STORMS WERE CLUSTERED OVER ARNOLDSBURG... OR 10
MILES SOUTH OF GRANTSVILLE...DRIFTING NORTHEAST.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
RIPLEY...SPENCER...SUTTON...GASSAWAY...SANDYVILLE...ARNOLDSBURG...
BIRCH RIVER...BIG OTTER...WALLBACK...HARRISON...FLATWOODS...REEDY...
FAIRPLAIN...WILSIE...CHLOE...ORMA...HARMONY...SERVIA...
GANDEEVILLE AND EXCHANGE.

THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS... INTERSTATE 79 NEAR MILE
MARKER 31...AND BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 34 AND 73.  INTERSTATE 77 IN
WEST VIRGINIA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 131 AND 140.

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

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 3878 8179 3902 8161 3874 8048 3844 8074
TIME...MOT...LOC 1801Z 240DEG 49KT 3877 8115

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 2, 2:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Pocahontas	2 hr
Aug 2, 2:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Raleigh	64 min
Aug 2, 3:06 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Fayette, Raleigh	3 hr
Aug 2, 5:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Webster	53 min
Aug 2, 6:24 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Webster	3 hr

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.