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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 2024, 4:05 PM EDT for Braxton County, Calhoun County, Gilmer 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 15, 2024, 4:05 PM EDT (20:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2024, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Braxton County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Gilmer County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 1:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
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 15, 2:59 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 15, 2:59 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 11:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Taylor | 30 min |
| Apr 15, 12:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Taylor | 22 min |
| Apr 15, 1:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Upshur | 21 min |
| Apr 15, 2:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Barbour, Randolph, Upshur | 33 min |
| Apr 15, 2:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph | 25 min |
| Apr 15, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph | 19 min |
| Apr 15, 2:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Upshur | 17 min |
| Apr 15, 3:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Randolph, Upshur | 33 min |
| Apr 15, 3:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Lewis | 16 min |
| Apr 15, 3:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Upshur | 10 min |
| Apr 15, 3:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Upshur | 16 min |
| Apr 15, 3:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Pleasants | 15 min |
| Apr 15, 3:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Randolph | 13 min |
| Apr 15, 3:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Upshur | 21 min |
| Apr 15, 3:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Calhoun | 20 min |
| Apr 15, 3:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Ritchie | 17 min |
| Apr 15, 4:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Randolph | 14 min |
| Apr 15, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph | 17 min |
| Apr 15, 4:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Wood | 19 min |
| Apr 15, 4:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Ritchie | 20 min |
| Apr 15, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Gilmer | 33 min |
| Apr 15, 4:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Randolph | 14 min |
| Apr 15, 4:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph | 36 min |
| Apr 15, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Webster | 25 min |
| Apr 15, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 24 min |
| Apr 15, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Webster | 32 min |
| Apr 15, 5:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Calhoun | 15 min |
| Apr 15, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph, Webster | 35 min |
| Apr 15, 5:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Gilmer | 16 min |
| Apr 15, 5:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Harrison | 22 min |
| Apr 15, 5:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Gilmer | 18 min |
| Apr 15, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 26 min |
| Apr 15, 6:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Calhoun | 36 min |
| Apr 15, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Gilmer, Roane | 32 min |
| Apr 15, 7:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Logan | 36 min |
| Apr 14, 10:04 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | RLX | Lawrence | 25 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.