Alert archive / West Virginia / Blizzard Warnings in 2024
Blizzard Warning 3, NWS Baltimore/Washington
NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this blizzard warning at Dec 4, 2024, 3:00 AM EST for Grant County, Pendleton County, West Virginia. It took effect at Dec 4, 2024, 9:00 PM EST. It was in force for 17 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 4, 2024, 3:00 AM EST (08:00 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 4, 2024, 9:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Dec 5, 2024, 1:56 PM EST
- In force
- 17 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Baltimore/Washington
Counties Grant County, WV, Pendleton County, WV
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 183 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 584 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this blizzard warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Baltimore/Washington wrote its last area forecast discussion before this blizzard warning went out at Dec 3, 8:59 PM EST, 6 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 3, 8:59 PM EST, 6 hours 1 minute before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Baltimore/Washington issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 4, 4:22 AM EST | Wind Advisory | LWX | Albemarle, Amherst, Arlington, Augusta, Clarke, Fairfax and 23 more | 44 hr |
| Dec 4, 10:56 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | LWX | Highland | 27 hr |
| Dec 4, 11:15 AM EST | Cold Weather Advisory | LWX | Highland | 47 hr |
Nearby
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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.