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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Charleston, WV

March 23, 202210 counties in West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 23, 2022, 7:46 PM EDT for 10 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 44 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 23, 2022, 7:46 PM EDT (23:46 UTC)
Expired: Mar 23, 2022, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Calhoun County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Mason County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 23, 2:35 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 210 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: 1376 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 407 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 480 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 severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 23, 7:33 PM EDT, 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 23, 7:33 PM EDT, 13 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 23, 7:43 PM EDT, 3 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 23, 7:09 PM EDT, 37 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 23, 7:10 PM EDT, 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 23, 7:11 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 23, 7:14 PM EDT, 32 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 23, 7:15 PM EDT, 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 23, 7:39 PM EDT, 7 minutes 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
Mar 23, 3:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Lincoln, Logan, Mingo	44 min
Mar 23, 3:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Wayne	37 min
Mar 23, 4:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Cabell, Mason	29 min
Mar 23, 4:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Mason, Putnam, Wirt, Wood	48 min
Mar 23, 4:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	RLX	Boone, Fayette, Kanawha, Logan, Raleigh	38 min
Mar 23, 4:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Cabell, Putnam	33 min
Mar 23, 4:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Logan	20 min
Mar 23, 4:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	RLX	Jackson, Pleasants, Ritchie, Tyler, Wirt, Wood	39 min
Mar 23, 4:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	RLX	Boone, Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Fayette, Kanawha and 2 more	52 min
Mar 23, 4:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Mason	19 min
Mar 23, 5:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Logan	15 min
Mar 23, 5:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Mason, Putnam, Roane	23 min
Mar 23, 5:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Mason	34 min
Mar 23, 5:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Wirt	29 min
Mar 23, 6:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Mason, Ritchie, Wirt, Wood	43 min
Mar 23, 6:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Putnam	8 min
Mar 23, 7:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Mason	29 min
Mar 23, 7:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	RLX	Wood	52 min
Mar 23, 7:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Wood	15 min
Mar 23, 7:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Jackson, Roane, Wirt, Wood	51 min
Mar 23, 7:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Kanawha, Lincoln, Putnam	23 min
Mar 23, 2:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Vinton	38 min
Mar 23, 2:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens, Jackson, Perry, Vinton	37 min
Mar 23, 3:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Lawrence	27 min
Mar 23, 5:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Meigs	31 min
Mar 23, 5:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Morgan, Perry	33 min
Mar 23, 5:55 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Athens, Morgan, Perry	35 min
Mar 23, 5:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Jackson, Vinton	32 min
Mar 23, 6:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Gallia, Jackson	34 min
Mar 23, 6:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Athens, Vinton	24 min
Mar 23, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens, Morgan, Perry, Vinton, Washington	47 min
Mar 23, 6:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Perry	21 min
Mar 23, 7:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Morgan, Washington	24 min

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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.