Alert archive / West Virginia / Snow Advisories in 2005
Snow Advisory 1, NWS Charleston, WV
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.
- 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
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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</html>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
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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.