Alert archive / Ohio / Winter Storm Watches in 2015
Winter Storm Watch 2, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this winter storm watch at Jan 30, 2015, 3:55 PM EST for Morgan County, Perry County, Ohio. It took effect at Feb 1, 2015, 1:00 AM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 30, 2015, 3:55 PM EST (20:55 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 1, 2015, 1:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Jan 31, 2015, 2:40 PM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
Counties Morgan County, OH, Perry County, OH
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:53 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KAGC), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 696 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
Winter Storm Watches in Ohio, 2015Every winter storm watch in 2015
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.