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Winter Storm Watch 3, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this winter storm watch at Dec 14, 2020, 4:01 AM EST for 17 counties in West Virginia. It took effect at Dec 16, 2020, 4:00 AM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 14, 2020, 4:01 AM EST (09:01 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 16, 2020, 4:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Dec 15, 2020, 2:07 PM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
Counties Barbour County, WV, Boone County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Clay County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Logan County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Pocahontas County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Webster County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 Dec 14, 2:49 AM EST, 1 hour 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 14, 2:49 AM EST, 1 hour 12 minutes before
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.