Alert archive / West Virginia / Freeze Watches in 2018
Freeze Watch 2, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this freeze watch at Oct 17, 2018, 3:18 AM EDT for 12 counties in West Virginia; 9 counties in Ohio; Boyd County, Carter County, Greenup County, Kentucky. It took effect at Oct 18, 2018, 1:00 AM EDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 17, 2018, 3:18 AM EDT (07:18 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 18, 2018, 1:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 17, 2018, 2:05 PM EDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
All 24 counties
Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Athens County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Perry County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Washington County, OH, Fayette County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Pocahontas County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Webster County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:21 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 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 1444 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze 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 freeze watch went out at Oct 17, 2:00 AM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 17, 2:00 AM EDT, 1 hour 18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 17, 3:18 AM EDT | Frost Advisory | RLX | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 25 more | 31 hr |
| Oct 17, 6:34 AM EDT | Freeze Warning | RLX | Nicholas, Pocahontas, Randolph, Webster | 27 hr |
Nearby
Freeze Watches in West Virginia, 2018Freeze Watches in Ohio, 2018Freeze Watches in Kentucky, 2018Every freeze watch in 2018
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.