Alert archive / West Virginia / Heavy Snow Warnings in 2005
Heavy Snow Warning 1, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this heavy snow warning at Dec 4, 2005, 3:56 PM EST for McDowell County, Wyoming County, West Virginia. It took effect at Dec 5, 2005, 4:00 AM EST. It was in force for . No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 4, 2005, 3:56 PM EST (20:56 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 5, 2005, 4:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Dec 5, 2005, 3:42 AM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
Counties McDowell County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 693 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this heavy snow warning 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 heavy snow warning went out at Dec 4, 3:03 PM EST, 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 4, 3:03 PM EST, 53 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 4, 4:33 AM EST, 11 hours 23 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 433 AM EST SUN DEC 4 2005 VAZ003-004-WVZ033>037-046-050945- DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-MCDOWELL-WYOMING-RALEIGH-FAYETTE-NICHOLAS- POCAHONTAS- 433 AM EST SUN DEC 4 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A WINTER STORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT INTO MONDAY AFTERNOON. DEPENDING ON THE TRACK OF THE STORM...THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY SNOW. HOWEVER...IF THE STORM STAYS FURTHER EAST...OR IS LESS DEVELOPED...THE WATCH WOULD NOT BECOME A WARNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY A WINTER STORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT INTO MONDAY AFTERNOON. DEPENDING ON THE TRACK OF THE STORM...THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY SNOW. HOWEVER...IF THE STORM STAYS FURTHER EAST...OR IS LESS DEVELOPED...THE WATCH WOULD NOT BECOME A WARNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. KYZ101>103-105-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-WVZ005>011-013>020- 024>032-039-040-050945- GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE KY-PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON- JACKSON OH-VINTON-MEIGS-GALLIA-LAWRENCE OH-WAYNE-CABELL-MASON- JACKSON WV-WOOD-PLEASANTS-TYLER-LINCOLN-PUTNAM-KANAWHA-ROANE-WIRT- CALHOUN-RITCHIE-DODDRIDGE-MINGO-LOGAN-BOONE-CLAY-BRAXTON-GILMER- LEWIS-HARRISON-TAYLOR-UPSHUR-BARBOUR- 433 AM EST SUN DEC 4 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...SOUTHEAST OHIO AND WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SOME PATCHY FREEZING DRIZZLE MAY STILL CAUSE A GLAZE ON UNTREATED SURFACES IN PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST OHIO THIS MORNING...OTHERWISE NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. WVZ038-047-050945- WEBSTER-RANDOLPH- 433 AM EST SUN DEC 4 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY A STORM TO OUR EAST AND SOUTH MAY BRUSH US ON MONDAY. THERE IS THE POTENTIAL OF LIGHT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS. DEPENDING ON THE TRACK...ADVISORIES MAY BE POSTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 4, 4:13 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | RLX | McDowell, Wyoming | 23 hr |
| Dec 3, 9:10 PM EST | Winter Storm Warning | RLX | Athens, Morgan, Perry, Vinton, Washington | 6 hr |
Nearby
Heavy Snow Warnings in West Virginia, 2005Every heavy snow warning in 2005
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.