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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV

July 22, 2017Clay County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Jul 22, 2017, 2:04 AM EDT for Clay County, West Virginia. It was in force for 26 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 22, 2017, 2:04 AM EDT (06:04 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2017, 2:30 AM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV

County Clay County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:05 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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 257 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: 111 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -126 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1423 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 41 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 Jul 21, 10:51 PM EDT, 3 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 10:51 PM EDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 21, 2:12 PM EDT, 11 hours 52 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 22, 12:03 AM EDT, 2 hours 1 minute before

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Special weather statement, Jul 22, 12:27 AM EDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 22, 12:49 AM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 22, 12:59 AM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 22, 1:31 AM EDT, 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 22, 2:04 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 22, 12:27 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Mason	33 min
Jul 22, 12:49 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Mason	26 min
Jul 22, 12:59 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Putnam	31 min
Jul 22, 1:31 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Kanawha, Putnam	29 min
Jul 22, 2:30 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Clay, Nicholas	30 min
Jul 22, 4:37 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Jackson	23 min
Jul 22, 5:49 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Calhoun	26 min
Jul 22, 6:14 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Braxton	31 min
Jul 22, 8:58 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Wood	32 min
Jul 22, 9:15 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Pleasants	30 min
Jul 22, 9:28 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Jackson, Ritchie, Wirt, Wood	32 min
Jul 22, 9:33 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Doddridge, Pleasants, Tyler	27 min
Jul 22, 9:59 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Doddridge, Harrison, Ritchie	31 min
Jul 22, 11:01 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Barbour	29 min
Jul 22, 11:59 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	RLX	Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 28 more	28 hr
Jul 22, 1:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Upshur	28 min
Jul 22, 1:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Clay	24 min
Jul 22, 2:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Harrison, Taylor	39 min
Jul 22, 2:50 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Barbour, Harrison, Taylor	4 hr
Jul 22, 2:52 PM EDT	Heat Advisory	RLX	Cabell, Lincoln, Logan, Mingo, Wayne	5 hr
Jul 22, 2:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Taylor	33 min
Jul 22, 3:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Barbour, Randolph, Upshur	51 min
Jul 22, 3:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Ritchie	27 min
Jul 22, 3:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Ritchie	38 min
Jul 22, 3:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Doddridge, Harrison, Lewis	41 min
Jul 22, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Pleasants, Wood	45 min
Jul 22, 4:21 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Doddridge, Harrison, Lewis	4 hr
Jul 22, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Doddridge, Lewis, Upshur	45 min
Jul 22, 4:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Ritchie, Wood	49 min
Jul 22, 5:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wood	42 min
Jul 22, 5:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Pleasants, Ritchie	45 min
Jul 22, 5:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Gilmer, Lewis	42 min
Jul 22, 5:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Pleasants, Wood	44 min
Jul 22, 5:34 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Ritchie	26 min
Jul 22, 5:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Doddridge, Gilmer, Lewis, Ritchie	39 min
Jul 22, 5:56 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Pleasants, Ritchie, Wood	4 hr
Jul 22, 5:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Ritchie, Wirt, Wood	31 min
Jul 22, 6:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Braxton, Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison, Lewis and 1 more	44 min
Jul 22, 6:43 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Gilmer, Lewis, Upshur	4 hr
Jul 22, 6:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Randolph, Upshur	46 min
Jul 22, 7:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Ritchie	32 min
Jul 22, 7:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Pocahontas, Randolph, Upshur	43 min
Jul 22, 7:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Calhoun, Gilmer, Ritchie	47 min
Jul 21, 11:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Gallia, Lawrence	35 min
Jul 22, 12:03 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Jackson, Vinton	27 min
Jul 22, 7:36 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Perry	24 min
Jul 22, 8:00 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Jackson, Vinton	30 min
Jul 22, 8:06 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Morgan	24 min
Jul 22, 8:27 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Athens	33 min
Jul 22, 8:48 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Morgan, Washington	27 min
Jul 22, 11:47 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Perry	43 min
Jul 22, 12:05 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Perry	7 hr
Jul 22, 3:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Athens	32 min
Jul 22, 4:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens, Morgan, Perry	51 min
Jul 22, 6:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Vinton	28 min
Jul 22, 6:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Meigs, Vinton	44 min
Jul 22, 6:44 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Jackson, Meigs, Vinton	46 min
Jul 22, 7:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson	49 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.