Alert archive / West Virginia / Special Weather Statements in 2021
Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Aug 3, 2021, 5:56 PM EDT for Ritchie County, West Virginia. It was in force for 34 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
- Aug 3, 2021, 5:56 PM EDT (21:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2021, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
County Ritchie County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1508 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
903 WWUS81 KRLX 032156 SPSRLX Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Charleston WV 556 PM EDT Tue Aug 3 2021 WVZ009-017-019-032230- Wirt-Ritchie-Wood- 556 PM EDT Tue Aug 3 2021 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN RITCHIE... NORTHEASTERN WIRT AND EAST CENTRAL WOOD COUNTIES... At 555 PM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located near Elizabeth, moving northeast at 20 mph. Wind gusts up to 50 mph and penny size hail are possible with this storm. Locations impacted include... Cairo, Freeport, Nutter Farm and Petroleum. This includes Route 50 in West Virginia between mile markers 22 and 28. LAT...LON 3903 8127 3909 8140 3928 8130 3923 8113 TIME...MOT...LOC 2155Z 207DEG 19KT 3911 8132 $$ RPY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 4:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Roane | 27 min |
| Aug 3, 5:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson, Roane, Wirt | 41 min |
| Aug 3, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pleasants, Ritchie | 32 min |
| Aug 3, 7:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Putnam | 27 min |
| Aug 3, 2:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Buchanan | 44 min |
Nearby
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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.