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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Charleston, WV

February 28, 20245 counties in West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 28, 2024, 8:59 AM EST for 5 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 31 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: Feb 28, 2024, 8:59 AM EST (13:59 UTC)
Expired: Feb 28, 2024, 9:30 AM EST
In force: 31 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, Lewis County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Webster County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 194 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: 101 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -85 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 901 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 493 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 521 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.0

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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 Feb 28, 8:25 AM EST, 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 28, 8:25 AM EST, 34 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 28, 8:22 AM EST, 37 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 28, 8:47 AM EST, 12 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 28, 8:48 AM EST, 11 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 28, 8:57 AM EST, 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Feb 28, 8:59 AM EST, 0 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
Feb 28, 3:50 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell, Mason, Putnam, Wayne	25 min
Feb 28, 7:05 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wayne	25 min
Feb 28, 7:14 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Mason, Putnam, Wirt	46 min
Feb 28, 7:24 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell, Mason, Putnam	36 min
Feb 28, 7:53 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell, Jackson, Kanawha, Putnam, Roane	37 min
Feb 28, 7:57 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Calhoun, Gilmer, Roane	33 min
Feb 28, 8:11 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wayne	34 min
Feb 28, 8:24 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Kanawha, Roane	36 min
Feb 28, 8:47 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Cabell	118 min
Feb 28, 8:59 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Kanawha, Lincoln	31 min
Feb 28, 9:34 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Clay, Webster	26 min
Feb 28, 10:24 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Fayette	36 min
Feb 28, 10:35 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	McDowell	55 min
Feb 28, 10:59 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Mason, Putnam, Wayne	5 hr
Feb 28, 11:11 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Clay, Kanawha, Roane	4 hr
Feb 28, 11:24 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Jackson, Mason	5 hr
Feb 28, 11:34 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	McDowell	26 min
Feb 28, 12:41 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Perry	19 min
Feb 28, 3:45 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Lawrence	15 min
Feb 28, 6:02 AM EST	Tornado Warning	RLX	Morgan, Perry	28 min
Feb 28, 6:19 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Gallia, Lawrence	56 min
Feb 28, 6:30 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Morgan, Perry	15 min
Feb 28, 6:47 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Morgan	28 min
Feb 28, 7:16 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Athens, Morgan	29 min
Feb 28, 7:42 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Washington	33 min
Feb 28, 3:21 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Carter, Greenup	24 min
Feb 28, 6:13 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Carter, Lawrence	47 min
Feb 28, 8:01 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Carter	3 hr
Feb 28, 10:51 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Carter	3 hr

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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.