Alert archive / West Virginia / Freeze Warnings in 2017
Freeze Warning 10, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this freeze warning at Oct 29, 2017, 2:44 PM EDT for 31 counties in West Virginia; Lawrence County, Morgan County, Washington County, Ohio; 4 counties in Kentucky. It took effect at Oct 29, 2017, 11:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 11 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
- Oct 29, 2017, 2:44 PM EDT (18:44 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 29, 2017, 11:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 30, 2017, 10:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
All 38 counties
Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lawrence County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Washington County, OH, Barbour County, WV, Boone County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Mason County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:48 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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 801 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 29, 3:20 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph, Webster | 27 hr |
| Oct 29, 3:23 AM EDT | Winter Weather Advisory | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph | 26 hr |
Nearby
Freeze Warnings in West Virginia, 2017Freeze Warnings in Kentucky, 2017Freeze Warnings in Ohio, 2017Every freeze warning in 2017
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.