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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Dec 18, 2016, 3:48 AM EST for Buchanan County, Dickenson County, Virginia. It was in force for 57 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
- Dec 18, 2016, 3:48 AM EST (08:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 18, 2016, 4:45 AM EST
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
Counties Buchanan County, VA, Dickenson County, VA
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 294 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
- 19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 733 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 94 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 434 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 523 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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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 Dec 18, 1:50 AM EST, 1 hour 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 18, 1:50 AM EST, 1 hour 58 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 527 PM EST SAT DEC 17 2016 KYZ101>103-105-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-VAZ003-004-WVZ005>009- 013>018-024>028-033-034-515-517-519-521-182230- GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE KY-PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON- JACKSON OH-VINTON-MEIGS-GALLIA-LAWRENCE OH-DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-WAYNE- CABELL-MASON-JACKSON WV-WOOD-LINCOLN-PUTNAM-KANAWHA-ROANE-WIRT- CALHOUN-MINGO-LOGAN-BOONE-CLAY-BRAXTON-MCDOWELL-WYOMING- NORTHWEST RALEIGH-NORTHWEST FAYETTE-NORTHWEST NICHOLAS- NORTHWEST WEBSTER- 527 PM EST SAT DEC 17 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...SOUTHEAST OHIO...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...AND PORTIONS OF CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA...NORTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA...SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA...SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. WVZ516-518-520-522>524-182230- SOUTHEAST RALEIGH-SOUTHEAST FAYETTE-SOUTHEAST NICHOLAS- SOUTHEAST WEBSTER-NORTHWEST POCAHONTAS-SOUTHEAST POCAHONTAS- 527 PM EST SAT DEC 17 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO 7 AM EST SUNDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA AND SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. WIND ADVISORY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. WIND ADVISORY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. WVZ010-011-019-020-029>032-039-040-182230- PLEASANTS-TYLER-RITCHIE-DODDRIDGE-GILMER-LEWIS-HARRISON-TAYLOR- UPSHUR-BARBOUR- 527 PM EST SAT DEC 17 2016 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT EST TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA AND NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLASH FLOOD WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. 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... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. WVZ525-526-182230- NORTHWEST RANDOLPH-SOUTHEAST RANDOLPH- 527 PM EST SAT DEC 17 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO 7 AM EST SUNDAY... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT EST TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. WIND ADVISORY. FLASH FLOOD WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. WIND ADVISORY. FLASH FLOOD WATCH. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
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Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 18, 12:48 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Pleasants, Tyler | 57 min |
| Dec 18, 12:58 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pleasants, Tyler, Wood | 47 min |
| Dec 18, 1:14 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mason | 46 min |
| Dec 18, 1:34 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Cabell, Lincoln, Wayne | 26 min |
| Dec 18, 1:52 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Jackson, Mason, Pleasants, Wirt, Wood | 23 min |
| Dec 18, 2:07 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Cabell, Jackson, Lincoln, Mason, Pleasants, Putnam and 5 more | 53 min |
| Dec 18, 2:10 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Cabell, Jackson, Lincoln, Mason, Pleasants, Putnam and 5 more | 50 min |
| Dec 18, 2:44 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge and 12 more | 46 min |
| Dec 18, 3:33 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Logan, McDowell, Mingo, Raleigh, Wyoming | 57 min |
| Dec 18, 3:37 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Clay, Fayette, Lewis and 6 more | 53 min |
| Dec 18, 6:57 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Washington | 21 hr |
| Dec 18, 9:03 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Washington | 6 hr |
| Dec 18, 11:12 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Washington | 20 hr |
| Dec 18, 2:35 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Washington | 14 hr |
| Dec 18, 12:52 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Greenup | 38 min |
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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.