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Frost Advisory 3, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this frost advisory at Apr 27, 2022, 3:56 AM EDT for 8 counties in West Virginia; Gallia County, Jackson County, Ohio. It took effect at Apr 28, 2022, 3:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 27, 2022, 3:56 AM EDT (07:56 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 28, 2022, 3:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2022, 9:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
Counties Gallia County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Boone County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Mason County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:57 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 278 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1044 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this frost advisory 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 frost advisory went out at Apr 26, 7:35 PM EDT, 8 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 7:35 PM EDT, 8 hours 21 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 3:56 AM EDT | Freeze Warning | RLX | Barbour, Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge, Fayette and 15 more | 29 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.