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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Charleston, WV

July 28, 20237 counties in West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 2023, 4:03 PM EDT for 7 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 42 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: Jul 28, 2023, 4:03 PM EDT (20:03 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2023, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Braxton County, WV, Clay County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Webster County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:02 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
Jul 28, 2:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 213 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: 1660 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 649 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 32 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 Jul 28, 2:33 PM EDT, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 2:33 PM EDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 28, 2:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 28, 3:44 PM EDT, 19 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 28, 3:46 PM EDT, 17 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 28, 3:50 PM EDT, 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 28, 3:53 PM EDT, 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 28, 3:55 PM EDT, 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 28, 4:01 PM EDT, 2 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
Jul 27, 8:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Gilmer	23 min
Jul 27, 8:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Gilmer	13 min
Jul 27, 8:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Jackson	25 min
Jul 27, 8:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Lewis	23 min
Jul 27, 9:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Roane	16 min
Jul 27, 10:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Putnam	22 min
Jul 27, 10:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Putnam	19 min
Jul 27, 10:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Mason	15 min
Jul 27, 11:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Putnam	30 min
Jul 27, 11:41 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Kanawha, Putnam	3 hr
Jul 27, 11:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Kanawha, Putnam	30 min
Jul 28, 6:52 AM EDT	Excessive Heat Warning	RLX	Boone, Cabell, Calhoun, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln and 8 more	11 hr
Jul 28, 1:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wayne	29 min
Jul 28, 2:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell, Lincoln, Logan, Mingo, Wayne	39 min
Jul 28, 2:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Pleasants, Wood	47 min
Jul 28, 2:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Cabell, Jackson, Mason, Putnam	26 min
Jul 28, 2:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boone, Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Putnam	32 min
Jul 28, 2:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Ritchie, Wirt, Wood	41 min
Jul 28, 2:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Pleasants, Ritchie, Wirt, Wood	38 min
Jul 28, 3:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell, Jackson, Kanawha, Mason, Putnam, Roane	40 min
Jul 28, 3:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Doddridge, Pleasants, Ritchie, Tyler	47 min
Jul 28, 3:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer, Lewis, Ritchie, Wirt	27 min
Jul 28, 3:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Boone, Wyoming	37 min
Jul 28, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boone, Fayette, Kanawha, Logan, Nicholas, Raleigh and 1 more	45 min
Jul 28, 3:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Gilmer, Kanawha, Nicholas and 1 more	38 min
Jul 28, 3:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison, Lewis, Upshur	47 min
Jul 28, 3:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	McDowell, Wyoming	35 min
Jul 28, 3:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Fayette, McDowell, Raleigh, Wyoming	31 min
Jul 28, 4:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Barbour, Harrison, Lewis, Randolph, Taylor, Upshur	46 min
Jul 28, 4:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Barbour, Nicholas, Pocahontas, Randolph, Webster	69 min
Jul 28, 7:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Putnam	26 min
Jul 28, 7:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Putnam	16 min
Jul 28, 7:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Putnam	16 min
Jul 27, 10:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Gallia	21 min
Jul 27, 10:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Gallia	17 min
Jul 28, 1:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Jackson, Vinton	35 min
Jul 28, 1:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Washington	42 min
Jul 28, 1:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Perry	35 min
Jul 28, 1:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Morgan, Perry	42 min
Jul 28, 1:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Athens, Gallia, Jackson, Meigs, Morgan, Vinton	39 min
Jul 28, 2:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens, Meigs, Vinton, Washington	44 min
Jul 28, 1:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Carter	46 min
Jul 28, 1:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Boyd, Carter, Greenup	31 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.