Alert archive / West Virginia / Freeze Warnings in 2006

Freeze Warning 3, NWS Charleston, WV

October 14, 200620 counties in West Virginia; 4 counties in Ohio; 4 counties in Kentucky

NWS Charleston, WV issued this freeze warning at Oct 14, 2006, 2:31 PM EDT for 20 counties in West Virginia; 4 counties in Ohio; 4 counties in Kentucky. It took effect at Oct 15, 2006, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 9 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 14, 2006, 2:31 PM EDT (18:31 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 15, 2006, 12:00 AM EDT
Expired
Oct 15, 2006, 9:00 AM EDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
All 28 counties

Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Gallia County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Boone County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Mason County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wirt County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 198 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2006-10-14Temperature 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2006-10-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 129 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1967 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
129 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
246 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 14, 2:31 PM EDTFrost AdvisoryRLXPleasants, Tyler, Wood18 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in West Virginia, 2006Freeze Warnings in Ohio, 2006Freeze Warnings in Kentucky, 2006Every freeze warning in 2006

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.