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Extreme Cold Warning 3, NWS Charleston, WV

December 13, 2025Pocahontas County, Randolph County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this extreme cold warning at Dec 13, 2025, 4:12 AM EST for Pocahontas County, Randolph County, West Virginia. It took effect at Dec 14, 2025, 4:00 AM EST. It was in force for 30 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: Dec 13, 2025, 4:12 AM EST (09:12 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 14, 2025, 4:00 AM EST
Expired: Dec 15, 2025, 10:00 AM EST
In force: 30 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV

Counties Pocahontas County, WV, Randolph County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:12 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 extreme cold 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 extreme cold warning went out at Dec 13, 3:27 AM EST, 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 13, 3:27 AM EST, 45 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Dec 12, 10:26 PM EST, 5 hours 46 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
Dec 13, 4:12 AM EST	Cold Weather Advisory	RLX	Barbour, Fayette, McDowell, Nicholas, Pocahontas, Raleigh and 5 more	54 hr

Nearby

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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.