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Heat Advisory 6, NWS Charleston, WV

July 23, 201119 counties in West Virginia; 9 counties in Ohio; 4 counties in Kentucky

NWS Charleston, WV issued this heat advisory at Jul 23, 2011, 4:38 AM EDT for 19 counties in West Virginia; 9 counties in Ohio; 4 counties in Kentucky. It took effect at Jul 23, 2011, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 23, 2011, 4:38 AM EDT (08:38 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 23, 2011, 12:00 PM EDT
Expired: Jul 23, 2011, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV

All 32 counties

Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Athens County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Perry County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Washington County, OH, Boone County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Mason County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:41 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 238 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 111 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -262 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1450 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jul 23, 1:47 AM EDT, 2 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 1:47 AM EDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 22, 8:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Nicholas	26 min
Jul 22, 8:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Nicholas	34 min
Jul 22, 10:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Doddridge, Harrison	60 min
Jul 23, 7:50 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Wayne	55 min
Jul 23, 12:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Jackson	40 min
Jul 23, 12:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Lincoln	49 min
Jul 23, 12:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Boone	53 min
Jul 23, 2:24 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Putnam	4 hr
Jul 23, 3:18 PM EDT	Heat Advisory	RLX	Boone, Cabell, Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer, Jackson and 13 more	29 hr
Jul 23, 3:43 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Mason	2 hr
Jul 23, 4:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Vinton	52 min
Jul 23, 5:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Washington	59 min

Nearby

Heat Advisories in West Virginia, 2011 Heat Advisories in Ohio, 2011 Heat Advisories in Kentucky, 2011 Every heat advisory in 2011

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.