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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Charleston, WV

April 1, 2024Fayette County, Raleigh County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 1, 2024, 8:35 PM EDT for Fayette County, Raleigh County, West Virginia. It was in force for 25 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: Apr 1, 2024, 8:35 PM EDT (00:35 UTC)
Expired: Apr 1, 2024, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Fayette County, WV, Raleigh County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 285 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: 159 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -79 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 901 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 193 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

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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 Apr 1, 7:40 PM EDT, 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 1, 7:40 PM EDT, 55 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 1, 2:18 PM EDT, 6 hours 17 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 1, 6:48 PM EDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 1, 6:51 PM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 1, 7:14 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 1, 7:37 PM EDT, 58 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 1, 7:49 PM EDT, 46 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 1, 8:05 PM EDT, 30 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
Apr 1, 8:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Logan	25 min
Apr 2, 10:22 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell, Lincoln, Mason, Mingo, Putnam, Wayne	38 min
Apr 2, 10:24 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Mason, Putnam	51 min
Apr 2, 10:27 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Cabell, Mason, Putnam, Wayne	33 min
Apr 2, 10:30 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Lincoln, Wayne	30 min
Apr 2, 10:51 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Boone, Cabell, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln, Mason and 2 more	24 min
Apr 2, 11:00 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	RLX	Boone, Fayette, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, Mingo and 2 more	45 min
Apr 2, 11:03 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Calhoun, Gilmer, Jackson, Mason, Ritchie, Roane and 1 more	42 min
Apr 2, 11:11 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison, Lewis, Pleasants, Ritchie and 3 more	64 min
Apr 2, 11:15 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Fayette, Kanawha, Nicholas and 1 more	30 min
Apr 2, 11:22 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Doddridge, Gilmer, Ritchie, Wirt	23 min
Apr 2, 11:25 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boone, Logan, Mingo, Raleigh, Wyoming	50 min
Apr 2, 11:27 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Boone, Fayette, Kanawha, Nicholas, Raleigh	36 min
Apr 2, 11:44 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	RLX	Barbour, Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Fayette, Gilmer and 7 more	76 min
Apr 2, 11:46 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boone, Fayette, Logan, McDowell, Mingo, Raleigh and 1 more	44 min
Apr 2, 12:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Barbour, Harrison, Lewis, Taylor	39 min
Apr 2, 3:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Kanawha, Lincoln	34 min
Apr 2, 4:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Fayette	29 min
Apr 2, 4:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Clay, Fayette, Kanawha, Nicholas	36 min
Apr 2, 4:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Nicholas	33 min
Apr 2, 4:30 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Fayette, Nicholas	30 min
Apr 2, 4:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Pocahontas, Webster	47 min
Apr 2, 5:12 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Pocahontas	33 min
Apr 2, 7:31 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Perry	29 min
Apr 2, 9:49 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Lawrence	41 min
Apr 2, 12:56 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	RLX	Morgan, Washington	44 hr
Apr 2, 12:58 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	RLX	Washington	49 hr
Apr 2, 7:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Perry	28 min
Apr 2, 7:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Morgan, Perry	22 min
Apr 2, 7:59 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Washington	42 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.