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Snow Advisory 3, NWS Charleston, WV

January 28, 20077 counties in West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this snow advisory at Jan 28, 2007, 4:00 AM EST for 7 counties in West Virginia. It took effect at Jan 28, 2007, 1:00 PM EST. It was in force for 18 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 28, 2007, 4:00 AM EST (09:00 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 28, 2007, 1:00 PM EST
Expired
Jan 29, 2007, 7:00 AM EST
In force
18 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV

Counties Barbour County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Upshur County, WV

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:00 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 137 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 2007-01-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 2007-01-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 14 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
733 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.