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Winter Storm Warning 6, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this winter storm warning at Nov 20, 2024, 1:56 AM EST for 7 counties in West Virginia. It took effect at Nov 21, 2024, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 51 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 20, 2024, 1:56 AM EST (06:56 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 21, 2024, 7:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Nov 23, 2024, 9:39 AM EST
- In force
- 51 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
Counties Barbour County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Pocahontas County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Webster County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:56 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 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 206 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 499 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Nov 20, 12:57 AM EST, 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 20, 12:57 AM EST, 59 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 20, 1:56 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | RLX | Barbour, Boone, Fayette, Logan, McDowell, Mingo and 7 more | 3 days |
| Nov 20, 2:21 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Jackson, Kanawha, Mason, Pleasants, Putnam, Ritchie and 3 more | 54 min |
| Nov 20, 2:58 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge, Fayette, Gilmer and 2 more | 77 min |
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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.