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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV

March 18, 2021Lawrence County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Mar 18, 2021, 4:16 PM EDT for Lawrence 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: Mar 18, 2021, 4:16 PM EDT (20:16 UTC)
Expired: Mar 18, 2021, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV

County Lawrence County, OH

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 156 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 531 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

240 
WWUS81 KRLX 182016
SPSRLX

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Charleston WV
416 PM EDT Thu Mar 18 2021

OHZ086-087-WVZ006-007-182100-
Gallia-Lawrence-Mason-Cabell-
416 PM EDT Thu Mar 18 2021

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN GALLIA...
SOUTHEASTERN LAWRENCE...SOUTHWESTERN MASON AND NORTH CENTRAL CABELL
COUNTIES...

At 416 PM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located 9 miles east of Lake
Vesuvius, moving northeast at 25 mph.

Wind gusts up to 50 mph and nickel size hail are possible with this
storm.

Locations impacted include...
Aid, Crown City, Athalia, Green Bottom, Scottown and Ashton. 

Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm, and may cause
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

LAT...LON 3845 8249 3861 8259 3880 8223 3856 8208
TIME...MOT...LOC 2016Z 243DEG 20KT 3857 8246 

$$

JP

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 18, 12:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Cabell, Wayne	41 min
Mar 18, 1:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Jackson, Putnam	36 min
Mar 18, 1:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Putnam	32 min
Mar 18, 2:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wayne	30 min
Mar 18, 2:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Roane	31 min
Mar 18, 2:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Cabell	45 min
Mar 18, 2:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Boone, Kanawha	27 min
Mar 18, 2:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Logan, Mingo	36 min
Mar 18, 2:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Wayne	34 min
Mar 18, 3:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Roane	25 min
Mar 18, 3:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Mason	39 min
Mar 18, 3:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell, Lincoln, Wayne	34 min
Mar 18, 3:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Logan	43 min
Mar 18, 3:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Lincoln, Wayne	47 min
Mar 18, 3:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Mingo	46 min
Mar 18, 4:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Mingo	47 min
Mar 18, 4:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Lincoln	37 min
Mar 18, 4:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Jackson, Wirt	28 min
Mar 18, 4:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Doddridge, Ritchie, Tyler	24 min
Mar 18, 4:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Logan, Mingo	46 min
Mar 18, 4:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Mason	47 min
Mar 18, 5:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Logan	52 min
Mar 18, 5:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Mason, Putnam	42 min
Mar 18, 5:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Mason	47 min
Mar 18, 5:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Cabell	36 min
Mar 18, 5:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Raleigh, Wyoming	34 min
Mar 18, 6:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Mason, Putnam, Wayne	36 min
Mar 18, 6:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Kanawha, Mason, Putnam, Roane	30 min
Mar 18, 6:23 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Wyoming	112 min
Mar 18, 6:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Raleigh, Wyoming	45 min
Mar 18, 6:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Putnam	29 min
Mar 18, 7:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Raleigh	31 min
Mar 18, 7:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Lincoln, Wayne	23 min
Mar 18, 7:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Kanawha	39 min
Mar 18, 7:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Lincoln, Wayne	36 min
Mar 18, 7:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Braxton	36 min
Mar 18, 2:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Gallia, Meigs	42 min
Mar 18, 3:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Athens, Meigs	33 min
Mar 18, 5:53 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Gallia	112 min
Mar 18, 1:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boyd, Carter, Greenup	33 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.