Alert archive / West Virginia / Freezing Rain Advisories in 2007
Freezing Rain Advisory 3, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this freezing rain advisory at Feb 24, 2007, 4:18 AM EST for 18 counties in West Virginia; 8 counties in Ohio. It took effect at Feb 24, 2007, 10:00 PM EST. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 24, 2007, 4:18 AM EST (09:18 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 24, 2007, 10:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 25, 2007, 2:49 AM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
All 26 counties
Athens County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Perry County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Washington County, OH, Barbour County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Mason County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:17 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2059 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freezing rain advisory 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 freezing rain advisory went out at Feb 24, 12:32 AM EST, 3 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 24, 12:32 AM EST, 3 hours 46 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 24, 3:24 AM EST, 54 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 324 AM EST SAT FEB 24 2007 KYZ101>103-105-OHZ083>087-VAZ003-004-WVZ005>008-013>018-024>027- 033>036-250830- GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE KY-JACKSON OH-VINTON-MEIGS-GALLIA- LAWRENCE OH-DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-WAYNE-CABELL-MASON-JACKSON WV- LINCOLN-PUTNAM-KANAWHA-ROANE-WIRT-CALHOUN-MINGO-LOGAN-BOONE-CLAY- MCDOWELL-WYOMING-RALEIGH-FAYETTE- 324 AM EST SAT FEB 24 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...SOUTHEAST OHIO...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. OHZ066-067-075-076-WVZ009>011-019-020-028>032-037>040-047-250830- PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON-WOOD-PLEASANTS-TYLER-RITCHIE- DODDRIDGE-BRAXTON-GILMER-LEWIS-HARRISON-TAYLOR-NICHOLAS-WEBSTER- UPSHUR-BARBOUR-RANDOLPH- 324 AM EST SAT FEB 24 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST OHIO AND WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM TONIGHT UNTIL 6 AM SUNDAY. A SIX TO EIGHT HOUR WINDOW OF FREEZING RAIN IS FORECAST CREATING TRAVEL HEADACHES. TEMPERATURES CLIMB ABOVE FREEZING SUNDAY MORNING MELTING THE ICE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. WVZ046-250830- POCAHONTAS- 324 AM EST SAT FEB 24 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A WINTER STORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT UNTIL 11 PM SUNDAY FOR THE POTENTIAL OF A QUARTER OF AN INCH OF ICE. FREEZING RAIN IS FORECAST TO START AROUND MIDNIGHT AND LAST THROUGH SUNDAY. IF YOU HAVE TRAVEL PLANS DURING THIS TIME WINDOW...BE CAREFUL WHEN DRIVING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY AS STATED ABOVE...A WINTER STORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE DAY SUNDAY AS FREEZING RAIN CONTINUES. THE ICE COMES TO AN END SUNDAY NIGHT AS SURFACE TEMPERATURES CLIMB ABOVE FREEZING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 4:18 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | RLX | 10 hr | |
| Feb 24, 2:26 PM EST | Winter Storm Warning | RLX | 25 hr |
Nearby
Freezing Rain Advisories in West Virginia, 2007Freezing Rain Advisories in Ohio, 2007Every freezing rain advisory in 2007
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.