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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV

November 1, 2018Athens County, Meigs County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Nov 1, 2018, 11:31 PM EDT for Athens County, Meigs County, Ohio. It was in force for 44 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: Nov 1, 2018, 11:31 PM EDT (03:31 UTC)
Expired: Nov 2, 2018, 12:15 AM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV

Counties Athens County, OH, Meigs County, OH

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:33 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, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 173 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: 88 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 651 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 273 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 229 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 1, 11:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Wayne	30 min
Nov 2, 12:01 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Cabell, Jackson, Lincoln, Mason, Putnam, Wayne	29 min
Nov 2, 12:24 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Pleasants, Wirt, Wood	36 min
Nov 2, 12:34 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Jackson, Kanawha, Roane	56 min
Nov 2, 1:08 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Doddridge, Pleasants, Ritchie, Tyler, Wirt	37 min
Nov 2, 3:25 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Nicholas, Pocahontas, Randolph, Webster	35 min
Nov 1, 10:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Jackson	31 min
Nov 1, 11:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Perry	27 min
Nov 1, 10:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Carter, Greenup	24 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Ohio, 2018 Every special weather statement in 2018

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.