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Heat Advisory 2, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this heat advisory at Aug 8, 2007, 3:11 PM EDT for 9 counties in West Virginia; Gallia County, Jackson County, Lawrence County, Ohio; 4 counties in Kentucky. It took effect at Aug 9, 2007, 1:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 2007, 3:11 PM EDT (19:11 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 9, 2007, 1:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2007, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
Counties Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Gallia County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Boone County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Mason County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Wayne County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:11 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 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 1258 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1235 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this heat 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 heat advisory went out at Aug 8, 3:07 PM EDT, 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 3:07 PM EDT, 4 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 3:45 AM EDT | Heat Advisory | RLX | Boone, Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, Mason and 3 more | 15 hr |
Nearby
Heat Advisories in West Virginia, 2007Heat Advisories in Kentucky, 2007Heat Advisories in Ohio, 2007Every heat 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.