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Wind Chill Watch 1, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this wind chill watch at Feb 13, 2015, 4:37 AM EST for Barbour County, Upshur County, West Virginia. It took effect at Feb 14, 2015, 11:00 PM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 13, 2015, 4:37 AM EST (09:37 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 14, 2015, 11:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 14, 2015, 4:50 AM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
Counties Barbour County, WV, Upshur County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:38 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
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 235 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
- 1749 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind chill 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 wind chill watch went out at Feb 13, 1:14 AM EST, 3 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 13, 1:14 AM EST, 3 hours 23 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 2:39 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | RLX | Barbour, Braxton, Clay, Harrison, Lewis, Taylor and 2 more | 42 hr |
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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.