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Snow Advisory 1, NWS Charleston, WV

November 23, 2005Barbour County, Upshur County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this snow advisory at Nov 23, 2005, 11:16 AM EST for Barbour County, Upshur County, West Virginia. It took effect at Nov 23, 2005, 4:00 PM EST. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 23, 2005, 11:16 AM EST (16:16 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 23, 2005, 4:00 PM EST
Expired
Nov 23, 2005, 7:35 PM EST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV

Counties Barbour County, WV, Upshur County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:21 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 155 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2005-11-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2005-11-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 130 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
877 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
130 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
181 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this snow advisory 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 snow advisory went out at Nov 23, 11:06 AM EST, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 23, 11:06 AM EST, 10 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 23, 5:20 AM EST, 5 hours 56 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
520 AM EST WED NOV 23 2005

KYZ101>103-105-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-VAZ003-004-WVZ005>011-
013>020-024>037-039-040-241030-
GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE KY-PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON-
JACKSON OH-VINTON-MEIGS-GALLIA-LAWRENCE OH-DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-
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-MCDOWELL-WYOMING-
RALEIGH-FAYETTE-NICHOLAS-UPSHUR-BARBOUR-
520 AM EST WED NOV 23 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST
KENTUCKY...SOUTHEAST OHIO...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND MUCH OF WEST
VIRGINIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

WVZ038-046-047-241030-
WEBSTER-POCAHONTAS-RANDOLPH-
520 AM EST WED NOV 23 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST VIRGINIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A WARM FRONT WILL BRING AN INCH OR TWO OF SNOW ACCUMULATION TO THE
MOUNTAINOUS COUNTIES OF NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA TONIGHT...WITH
LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS ACROSS HIGHER TERRAIN. THE SNOW MAY MIX
WITH OR CHANGE TO RAIN FOR A SHORT TIME TONIGHT.

IF IT APPEARS THE HIGHER AMOUNTS WILL BE MORE WIDESPREAD...THEN A
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW MAY NEED ISSUED LATER TODAY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

A COLD FRONT...FOLLOWED BY STRONG WESTERLY UPSLOPE WINDS...WILL BRING
ANOTHER INCH OR TWO OF SNOW ACCUMULATION TO THE MOUNTAINOUS COUNTIES OF
NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA THANKSGIVING DAY...WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS
ACROSS HIGHER TERRAIN.

AGAIN...IF IT APPEARS THE HIGHER AMOUNTS WILL BE MORE WIDESPREAD...THEN A
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW MAY NEED ISSUED FOR OR CONTINUED
INTO THANKSGIVING DAY.

ALSO...STRONG WINDS AND FALLING TEMPERATURES WILL RESULT IN WIND
CHILL INDICES IN THE SINGLE DIGITS BELOW ZERO BY FRIDAY MORNING IN
THE NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA MOUNTAINS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

TRM

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.