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Winter Storm Watch 1, NWS Charleston, WV

January 20, 20144 counties in West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this winter storm watch at Jan 20, 2014, 3:51 AM EST for 4 counties in West Virginia. It took effect at Jan 21, 2014, 4:00 AM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 20, 2014, 3:51 AM EST (08:51 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 21, 2014, 4:00 AM EST
Expired: Jan 20, 2014, 1:07 PM EST
In force
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV

Counties Barbour County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Wyoming County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:57 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm watch went out at Jan 20, 12:50 AM EST, 3 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 20, 12:50 AM EST, 3 hours 1 minute before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 20, 11:23 AM EST	Winter Storm Warning	RLX	Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge and 16 more	38 hr
Jan 20, 11:23 AM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	RLX	Cabell, Doddridge, Jackson, Lincoln, Mason, Pleasants and 6 more	27 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Watches in West Virginia, 2014 Every winter storm watch in 2014

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.