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Wind Advisory 1, NWS Baltimore/Washington

January 5, 2022Grant County, Pendleton County, West Virginia

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this wind advisory at Jan 5, 2022, 12:16 PM EST for Grant County, Pendleton County, West Virginia. It took effect at Jan 5, 2022, 8:00 PM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 5, 2022, 12:16 PM EST (17:16 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 5, 2022, 8:00 PM EST
Expired: Jan 5, 2022, 6:46 PM EST
In force
Issued by: NWS Baltimore/Washington

Counties Grant County, WV, Pendleton County, WV

The radar

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 189 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1209 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 258 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 323 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Baltimore/Washington wrote its last area forecast discussion before this wind advisory went out at Jan 5, 10:32 AM EST, 1 hour 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 5, 10:32 AM EST, 1 hour 44 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 5, 8:38 AM EST, 3 hours 38 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Baltimore/Washington issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 5, 1:23 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	LWX		17 hr
Jan 5, 2:47 AM EST	Winter Storm Watch	LWX	Albemarle, Amherst, Augusta, Greene, Highland, Madison and 9 more	12 hr
Jan 5, 2:33 PM EST	Winter Storm Warning	LWX	Albemarle, Amherst, Augusta, Frederick, Greene, Highland and 8 more	38 hr
Jan 5, 2:33 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	LWX	Arlington, Clarke, Culpeper, Fairfax, Fauquier, Frederick and 22 more	39 hr
Jan 5, 3:08 PM EST	Gale Watch	LWX		13 hr
Jan 5, 6:46 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	LWX		18 hr
Jan 5, 6:46 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	LWX		62 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.