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High Wind Warning 4, NWS Baltimore/Washington

February 28, 2024Grant County, Pendleton County, West Virginia

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this high wind warning at Feb 28, 2024, 2:35 AM EST for Grant County, Pendleton County, West Virginia. It took effect at Feb 28, 2024, 1:00 PM EST. It was in force for 14 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
Feb 28, 2024, 2:35 AM EST (07:35 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 28, 2024, 1:00 PM EST
Expired
Feb 29, 2024, 2:35 AM EST
In force
14 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 07:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 2024-02-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 35 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 2024-02-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 202 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
35 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1048 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
202 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
258 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Baltimore/Washington issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 28, 10:19 AM ESTSmall Craft AdvisoryLWX29 hr

Nearby

High Wind Warnings in West Virginia, 2024Every high wind warning in 2024

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.