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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV

July 13, 2023Wood County, West Virginia; Jackson County, Meigs County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Jul 13, 2023, 8:13 AM EDT for Wood County, West Virginia; Jackson County, Meigs County, Ohio. It was in force for 47 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 13, 2023, 8:13 AM EDT (12:13 UTC)
Expired: Jul 13, 2023, 9:00 AM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 30

Counties Jackson County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Wood County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 305 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: 28 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -252 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1049 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 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 13, 6:49 AM EDT, 1 hour 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 6:49 AM EDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 13, 4:20 AM EDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 13, 6:58 AM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 13, 7:26 AM EDT, 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 13, 8:13 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 13, 8:44 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Jackson	46 min
Jul 13, 8:45 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Doddridge, Ritchie	45 min
Jul 13, 10:15 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Braxton	15 min
Jul 13, 10:31 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Roane	14 min
Jul 13, 10:52 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Clay	8 min
Jul 13, 11:11 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Clay	19 min
Jul 13, 11:28 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Nicholas	17 min
Jul 13, 11:45 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Webster	15 min
Jul 13, 1:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Jackson	13 min
Jul 13, 1:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Roane	28 min
Jul 13, 1:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Roane	21 min
Jul 13, 2:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Clay	22 min
Jul 13, 2:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Kanawha, Putnam	28 min
Jul 13, 2:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Braxton, Clay, Nicholas	31 min
Jul 13, 2:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Braxton, Nicholas, Webster	37 min
Jul 13, 3:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell, Mason	36 min
Jul 13, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Harrison, Lewis	30 min
Jul 13, 3:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Pocahontas	39 min
Jul 13, 3:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell, Mason, Putnam	33 min
Jul 13, 4:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell, Mason, Putnam	26 min
Jul 13, 4:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Kanawha, Putnam	34 min
Jul 13, 4:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Jackson	31 min
Jul 13, 4:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Ritchie	37 min
Jul 13, 4:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Wood	37 min
Jul 13, 4:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Clay, Kanawha, Roane	37 min
Jul 13, 5:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Kanawha, Lincoln	37 min
Jul 13, 5:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Cabell	33 min
Jul 13, 5:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Doddridge, Tyler	24 min
Jul 13, 5:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Clay, Kanawha, Nicholas	33 min
Jul 13, 5:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Putnam	13 min
Jul 13, 5:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Cabell	35 min
Jul 13, 5:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Kanawha	32 min
Jul 13, 5:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Tyler	31 min
Jul 13, 5:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Kanawha	28 min
Jul 13, 5:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Nicholas	31 min
Jul 13, 6:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Tyler	23 min
Jul 13, 6:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Clay	22 min
Jul 13, 6:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Kanawha	15 min
Jul 13, 6:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Tyler	17 min
Jul 13, 6:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Fayette	26 min
Jul 13, 6:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Nicholas	13 min
Jul 13, 7:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Greenbrier	24 min
Jul 13, 7:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Fayette	36 min
Jul 13, 6:58 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Jackson, Vinton	32 min
Jul 13, 7:26 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Jackson, Vinton	49 min
Jul 13, 3:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Gallia	36 min
Jul 13, 4:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Athens	18 min
Jul 13, 5:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Morgan	28 min
Jul 13, 5:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Morgan	8 min
Jul 13, 5:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Morgan, Perry	33 min
Jul 13, 4:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Carter, Greenup	31 min
Jul 13, 4:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Boyd	17 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.