Alert archive / West Virginia / Winter Storm Watches in 2005
Winter Storm Watch 1, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this winter storm watch at Dec 4, 2005, 4:13 AM EST for McDowell County, Wyoming County, West Virginia. It took effect at Dec 5, 2005, 12:00 AM EST. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 4, 2005, 4:13 AM EST (09:13 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 5, 2005, 12:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Dec 5, 2005, 3:42 AM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- 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 09:13 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 288 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
- 1580 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 81 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 293 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 540 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm watch 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 winter storm watch went out at Dec 4, 1:10 AM EST, 3 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 4, 1:10 AM EST, 3 hours 3 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 333 PM EST SAT DEC 3 2005 OHZ066-067-075-084-042045- PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-VINTON- 333 PM EST SAT DEC 3 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST OHIO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY...IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 6 AM EST SUNDAY...FOR 1 TO 4 INCHES OF SNOW...MIXED WITH SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT. WVZ046-047-042045- POCAHONTAS-RANDOLPH- 333 PM EST SAT DEC 3 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY...IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 6 AM EST SUNDAY...FOR MIXED SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN...BUT TRENDING TO ALL RAIN LATER TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY ACCUMULATING SNOWS OF 3 TO 6 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT AND AGAIN MONDAY. KYZ101>103-105-OHZ076-083-085>087-WVZ005>011-013>020-024>032-039- 040-042045- GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE KY-WASHINGTON-JACKSON OH-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- 333 PM EST SAT DEC 3 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...SOUTHEAST OHIO AND WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. VAZ003-004-WVZ033>038-042045- DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-MCDOWELL-WYOMING-RALEIGH-FAYETTE-NICHOLAS- WEBSTER- 333 PM EST SAT DEC 3 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY ACCUMULATING SNOWS OF 2 TO 5 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED MONDAY.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Dec 4, 12:39 AM EST, 3 hours 34 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 4, 3:56 PM EST | Heavy Snow Warning | RLX | McDowell, Wyoming | 12 hr |
| Dec 3, 9:10 PM EST | Winter Storm Warning | RLX | Athens, Morgan, Perry, Vinton, Washington | 6 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Watches in West Virginia, 2005Every winter storm watch 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.