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High Wind Watch 1, NWS Charleston, WV

November 30, 2006McDowell County, Wyoming County, West Virginia; 5 counties in Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this high wind watch at Nov 30, 2006, 3:56 AM EST for McDowell County, Wyoming County, West Virginia; 5 counties in Ohio. It took effect at Nov 30, 2006, 3:28 PM EST. It was in force for 14 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 30, 2006, 3:56 AM EST (08:56 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 30, 2006, 3:28 PM EST
Expired: Dec 1, 2006, 5:06 AM EST
In force: 14 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV

Counties Athens County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Perry County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Washington County, OH, McDowell County, WV, Wyoming County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 173 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 87 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 949 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 219 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 127 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high wind 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 high wind watch went out at Nov 30, 1:10 AM EST, 2 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 30, 1:10 AM EST, 2 hours 46 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 29, 4:24 AM EST, 23 hours 32 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 30, 3:28 PM EST	Wind Advisory	RLX	Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 22 more	26 hr

Nearby

High Wind Watches in Ohio, 2006 High Wind Watches in West Virginia, 2006 Every high wind watch 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.