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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV

July 15, 20236 counties in West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Jul 15, 2023, 4:00 PM EDT for 6 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 30 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 15, 2023, 4:00 PM EDT (20:00 UTC)
Expired: Jul 15, 2023, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 40

Counties Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Wirt County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 184 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: 130 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1086 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted.

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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 14, 7:40 PM EDT, 20 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 7:40 PM EDT, 20 hours 20 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 15, 1:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Cabell	32 min
Jul 15, 1:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Cabell	31 min
Jul 15, 2:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Mason	31 min
Jul 15, 2:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Jackson, Putnam, Wirt, Wood	31 min
Jul 15, 3:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Calhoun, Roane, Wirt	30 min
Jul 15, 3:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Boone, Kanawha, Lincoln	27 min
Jul 15, 4:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Lincoln	26 min
Jul 15, 4:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge, Gilmer, Lewis and 2 more	31 min
Jul 15, 5:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Harrison, Lewis, Nicholas, Upshur, Webster	29 min
Jul 15, 5:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Barbour, Randolph, Taylor, Upshur	28 min
Jul 15, 6:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Barbour, Randolph, Taylor	30 min
Jul 15, 2:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Gallia, Meigs	29 min
Jul 15, 2:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Meigs	29 min
Jul 15, 2:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Boyd	36 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.