Alert archive / West Virginia / Snow Advisories in 2006
Snow Advisory 3, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this snow advisory at Feb 4, 2006, 3:11 PM EST for Barbour County, Upshur County, West Virginia. It took effect at Feb 5, 2006, 12:00 AM EST. It was in force for 24 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 4, 2006, 3:11 PM EST (20:11 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 5, 2006, 12:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 6, 2006, 12:00 AM EST
- In force
- 24 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
Counties Barbour County, WV, Upshur County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:12 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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 209 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 558 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 84 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 399 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 591 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
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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.