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Winter Storm Warning 3, NWS Baltimore/Washington

January 25, 2014Highland County, Virginia; Grant County, Pendleton County, West Virginia

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this winter storm warning at Jan 25, 2014, 8:08 PM EST for Highland County, Virginia; Grant County, Pendleton County, West Virginia. It was in force for 9 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 25, 2014, 8:08 PM EST (01:08 UTC)
Expired
Jan 26, 2014, 4:59 AM EST
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Baltimore/Washington

Counties Highland County, VA, Grant County, WV, Pendleton County, WV

The radar

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:09 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 169 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, Roanoke, VA at 00:00Z on 2014-01-26Temperature 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, Roanoke, VA at 00:00Z on 2014-01-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 300 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
706 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
82 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
300 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
332 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Baltimore/Washington issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 26, 3:47 AM ESTWind Chill WatchLWXHighland24 hr
Jan 26, 6:41 AM ESTSmall Craft AdvisoryLWX54 hr
Jan 26, 2:06 PM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryLWXHighland24 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in West Virginia, 2014Winter Storm Warnings in Virginia, 2014Every winter storm warning in 2014

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.