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Heat Advisory 2, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this heat advisory at Jul 18, 2013, 3:11 AM EDT for 21 counties in West Virginia; 9 counties in Ohio; 4 counties in Kentucky. It took effect at Jul 18, 2013, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 18, 2013, 3:11 AM EDT (07:11 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 18, 2013, 12:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2013, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
All 34 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, Braxton County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Mason County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:14 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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 269 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
- 2684 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 720 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
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 18, 3:08 AM EDT, 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 3:08 AM EDT, 3 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 343 AM EDT WED JUL 17 2013 KYZ101>103-105-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-WVZ005>007-009>011-180745- GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE KY-PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON- JACKSON OH-VINTON-MEIGS-GALLIA-LAWRENCE OH-WAYNE-CABELL-MASON-WOOD- PLEASANTS-TYLER- 343 AM EDT WED JUL 17 2013 ...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 6 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...SOUTHEAST OHIO...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. HEAT ADVISORY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. TEMPERATURES IN THE LOWER 90S THURSDAY WILL COMBINE WITH HIGH HUMIDITY...TO PRODUCE HEAT INDICES THAT MAY REQUIRE HEAT ADVISORIES. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. WVZ008-013>020-024>026-029-180745- JACKSON WV-LINCOLN-PUTNAM-KANAWHA-ROANE-WIRT-CALHOUN-RITCHIE- DODDRIDGE-MINGO-LOGAN-BOONE-GILMER- 343 AM EDT WED JUL 17 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. TEMPERATURES IN THE LOWER 90S THURSDAY WILL COMBINE WITH HIGH HUMIDITY...TO PRODUCE HEAT INDICES THAT MAY REQUIRE HEAT ADVISORIES. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. VAZ003-004-WVZ027-028-030>040-046-047-180745- DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-CLAY-BRAXTON-LEWIS-HARRISON-TAYLOR-MCDOWELL- WYOMING-RALEIGH-FAYETTE-NICHOLAS-WEBSTER-UPSHUR-BARBOUR-POCAHONTAS- RANDOLPH- 343 AM EDT WED JUL 17 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 17, 9:34 PM EDT, 5 hours 37 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 8:04 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boone, Logan, McDowell, Mingo, Raleigh, Wyoming | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 1:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Fayette | 25 min |
| Jul 18, 2:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Webster | 32 min |
| Jul 18, 5:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Randolph | 40 min |
| Jul 18, 5:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Wyoming | 41 min |
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.