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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Mar 21, 2018, 5:52 PM EDT for Kanawha County, Roane County, West Virginia. It was in force for 38 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
- Mar 21, 2018, 5:52 PM EDT (21:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 21, 2018, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
Counties Kanawha County, WV, Roane County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 621 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -123 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>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 Mar 20, 7:55 PM EDT, 21 hours 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 20, 7:55 PM EDT, 21 hours 57 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 21, 6:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Calhoun, Clay, Fayette, Roane | 42 min |
| Mar 21, 6:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Braxton | 32 min |
| Mar 21, 9:50 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Athens, Gallia, Jackson, Lawrence, Meigs, Morgan and 3 more | 10 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.