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Frost Advisory 9, NWS Charleston, WV

October 14, 2006Pleasants County, Tyler County, Wood County, West Virginia; 4 counties in Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this frost advisory at Oct 14, 2006, 2:31 PM EDT for Pleasants County, Tyler County, Wood County, West Virginia; 4 counties in Ohio. It took effect at Oct 15, 2006, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

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

Counties Athens County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Washington County, OH, Pleasants County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Wood County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 120 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 186 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 EDTFreeze WarningRLXBoone, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge, Gilmer and 14 more18 hr

Nearby

Frost Advisories in Ohio, 2006Frost Advisories in West Virginia, 2006Every frost advisory 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.