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Freeze Warning 11, NWS Charleston, WV

October 16, 202034 counties in West Virginia; 9 counties in Ohio; 4 counties in Kentucky

NWS Charleston, WV issued this freeze warning at Oct 16, 2020, 1:52 PM EDT for 34 counties in West Virginia; 9 counties in Ohio; 4 counties in Kentucky. It took effect at Oct 17, 2020, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 8 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 16, 2020, 1:52 PM EDT (17:52 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 17, 2020, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired
Oct 17, 2020, 10:00 AM EDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
All 47 counties

Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Lawrence 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, 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, Pocahontas County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Webster County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV, Wyoming County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 215 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2020-10-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2020-10-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -138 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1230 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
108 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-138 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-107 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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Nearby

Freeze Warnings in West Virginia, 2020Freeze Warnings in Ohio, 2020Freeze Warnings in Kentucky, 2020Every freeze warning in 2020

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.