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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 229, NWS Charleston, WV

October 4, 2006Roane County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 4, 2006, 10:08 PM EDT for Roane County, West Virginia. It was in force for 37 min. 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 4, 2006, 10:08 PM EDT (02:08 UTC)
Expired
Oct 4, 2006, 10:45 PM EDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Roane County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:11 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 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 226 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 00:00Z on 2006-10-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1376 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2006-10-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 207 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1376 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
951 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
207 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
231 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.6
Supercell composite
8.2

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 4, 9:34 PM EDTFlash Flood WatchRLXJackson, Mason, Wood5 hr
Oct 4, 9:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXJackson41 min
Oct 5, 3:20 AM EDTFlash Flood WatchRLXCabell, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln, Mason, Putnam and 1 more5 hr
Oct 4, 9:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMeigs33 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 2006Every severe thunderstorm 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.