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Winter Weather Advisory 13, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this winter weather advisory at Feb 25, 2014, 8:12 AM EST for 17 counties in West Virginia; 7 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 25, 2014, 8:12 AM EST (13:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 25, 2014, 11:00 AM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
All 24 counties
Athens County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Washington County, OH, Barbour County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Mason County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:16 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 12:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 695 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 108 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Feb 25, 5:55 AM EST, 2 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 25, 5:55 AM EST, 2 hours 17 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 25, 4:45 AM EST, 3 hours 27 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 445 AM EST TUE FEB 25 2014 KYZ101>103-105-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-WVZ005>011-013>020-027>032- 035>040-260945- GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE KY-PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON- JACKSON OH-VINTON-MEIGS-GALLIA-LAWRENCE OH-WAYNE-CABELL-MASON- JACKSON WV-WOOD-PLEASANTS-TYLER-LINCOLN-PUTNAM-KANAWHA-ROANE-WIRT- CALHOUN-RITCHIE-DODDRIDGE-CLAY-BRAXTON-GILMER-LEWIS-HARRISON-TAYLOR- RALEIGH-FAYETTE-NICHOLAS-WEBSTER-UPSHUR-BARBOUR- 445 AM EST TUE FEB 25 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...SOUTHEAST OHIO AND MUCH OF WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. WVZ046-047-260945- POCAHONTAS-RANDOLPH- 445 AM EST TUE FEB 25 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS OF WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. WITH LOW TEMPERATURES...IF SUSTAINED WINDS DO NOT DECREASE TOO QUICKLY...A WIND CHILL ADVISORY MAY BE NECESSARY FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY THURSDAY...AND THEN AGAIN FOR THURSDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. VAZ003-004-WVZ024>026-033-034-260945- DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-MINGO-LOGAN-BOONE-MCDOWELL-WYOMING- 445 AM EST TUE FEB 25 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. IF SNOW RATES OVERNIGHT TUESDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING ARE A BIT HIGHER THAN CURRENTLY EXPECTED...A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY MAY BE POSTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. TRM
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Feb 25, 7:46 AM EST, 26 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 3:09 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | RLX | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 17 more | 19 hr |
Nearby
Winter Weather Advisories in West Virginia, 2014Winter Weather Advisories in Ohio, 2014Every winter weather advisory 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.