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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 18, 2024, 12:16 AM EDT for 5 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 29 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 18, 2024, 12:16 AM EDT (04:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 18, 2024, 12:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Clay County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Pocahontas County, WV, Webster County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 17, 9:58 PM EDT, 2 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 17, 9:58 PM EDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Apr 17, 8:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wood | 34 min |
| Apr 17, 8:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pleasants, Ritchie, Tyler, Wood | 33 min |
| Apr 17, 8:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wood | 30 min |
| Apr 17, 9:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson, Ritchie, Wirt, Wood | 33 min |
| Apr 17, 9:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Harrison, Pleasants, Ritchie, Tyler, Wood | 30 min |
| Apr 17, 9:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Gilmer, Ritchie, Roane, Wirt, Wood | 28 min |
| Apr 17, 9:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison, Lewis, Ritchie | 33 min |
| Apr 17, 9:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson, Wirt, Wood | 29 min |
| Apr 17, 9:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Harrison, Taylor | 26 min |
| Apr 17, 10:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Calhoun, Gilmer, Ritchie, Roane, Wirt | 30 min |
| Apr 17, 10:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Barbour, Lewis, Taylor, Upshur | 31 min |
| Apr 17, 10:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Calhoun, Gilmer, Ritchie | 28 min |
| Apr 17, 10:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Jackson, Mason, Roane, Wirt | 26 min |
| Apr 17, 10:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Jackson, Mason, Roane, Wirt | 4 min |
| Apr 17, 10:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Calhoun, Gilmer | 30 min |
| Apr 17, 10:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Calhoun, Jackson, Mason, Roane, Wirt | 27 min |
| Apr 17, 10:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Randolph, Upshur | 25 min |
| Apr 17, 11:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Lewis, Randolph, Upshur, Webster | 23 min |
| Apr 17, 11:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Webster | 31 min |
| Apr 17, 11:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Gilmer, Jackson, Kanawha and 5 more | 28 min |
| Apr 17, 11:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Randolph | 23 min |
| Apr 17, 11:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Jackson, Kanawha, Nicholas and 2 more | 32 min |
| Apr 17, 11:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Webster | 30 min |
| Apr 18, 12:18 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Pocahontas | 27 min |
| Apr 18, 12:46 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Nicholas | 14 min |
| Apr 18, 1:00 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Nicholas | 15 min |
| Apr 17, 8:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Washington | 27 min |
| Apr 17, 8:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Athens, Jackson, Meigs, Vinton, Washington | 25 min |
| Apr 17, 8:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Vinton | 3 hr |
| Apr 17, 9:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Athens, Vinton | 3 hr |
| Apr 18, 12:09 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Vinton | 9 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.