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Fire Weather Watch 2, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this fire weather watch at Apr 9, 2012, 10:01 PM EDT for 8 counties in West Virginia; Boyd County, Carter County, Lawrence County, Kentucky. It took effect at Apr 10, 2012, 1:00 PM EDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 9, 2012, 10:01 PM EDT (02:01 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 10, 2012, 1:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 10, 2012, 4:09 AM EDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
Counties Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Boone County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Wayne County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:02 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, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 3137 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 83 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this fire weather watch 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 fire weather watch went out at Apr 9, 8:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 9, 8:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 4:09 AM EDT | Freeze Warning | RLX | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 22 more | 29 hr |
| Apr 10, 11:33 AM EDT | Red Flag Warning | RLX | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Clay, Kanawha and 9 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 10, 2:21 PM EDT | Freeze Watch | RLX | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 22 more | 24 hr |
Nearby
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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.