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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 100, NWS Charleston, WV

May 11, 2024Wirt County, Wood County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 2024, 3:08 PM EDT for Wirt County, Wood County, West Virginia. It was in force for 37 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
May 11, 2024, 3:08 PM EDT (19:08 UTC)
Expired
May 11, 2024, 3:45 PM EDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.25 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 184 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 12:00Z on 2024-05-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 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 12:00Z on 2024-05-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 77 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1132 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
108 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 11, 2:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXWood30 min
May 11, 2:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXWood34 min
May 11, 3:10 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXPutnam35 min
May 11, 4:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXCalhoun33 min
May 11, 5:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXUpshur45 min
May 11, 3:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXNoble28 min
May 11, 3:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXNoble28 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 2024Every severe thunderstorm 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.