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Winter Weather Advisory 3, NWS Charleston, WV

January 11, 201110 counties in West Virginia; Lawrence County, Ohio; 4 counties in Kentucky

NWS Charleston, WV issued this winter weather advisory at Jan 11, 2011, 4:00 AM EST for 10 counties in West Virginia; Lawrence County, Ohio; 4 counties in Kentucky. It took effect at Jan 11, 2011, 5:00 AM EST. It was in force for 52 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 11, 2011, 4:00 AM EST (09:00 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 11, 2011, 5:00 AM EST
Expired
Jan 13, 2011, 9:00 AM EST
In force
52 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV

Counties Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lawrence County, OH, Boone County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wyoming County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:05 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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 307 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2011-01-11Temperature 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2011-01-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 74 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
594 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
526 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 winter weather 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 winter weather advisory went out at Jan 11, 1:30 AM EST, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 11, 1:30 AM EST, 2 hours 30 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 11, 4:00 AM ESTWinter Storm WarningRLXBarbour, McDowell, Upshur, Wyoming56 hr

Nearby

Winter Weather Advisories in West Virginia, 2011Winter Weather Advisories in Kentucky, 2011Winter Weather Advisories in Ohio, 2011Every winter weather 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.