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Wind Advisory 1, NWS Charleston, WV

January 9, 2022Pocahontas County, Randolph County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this wind advisory at Jan 9, 2022, 5:38 PM EST for Pocahontas County, Randolph County, West Virginia. It took effect at Jan 9, 2022, 10:00 PM EST. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 9, 2022, 5:38 PM EST (22:38 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 9, 2022, 10:00 PM EST
Expired
Jan 10, 2022, 7:00 AM EST
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV

Counties Pocahontas County, WV, Randolph County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:38 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

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 225 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, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 2022-01-09Temperature 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, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 2022-01-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 240 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1483 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
240 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
276 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 9, 3:33 PM ESTAreal Flood WarningRLXCabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Mingo, Putnam, Wayne5 hr
Jan 9, 4:27 PM ESTAreal Flood WarningRLXJackson, Kanawha, Putnam, Roane2 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.