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Frost Advisory 6, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this frost advisory at May 31, 2025, 2:01 PM EDT for 4 counties in West Virginia. It took effect at Jun 1, 2025, 1:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 2025, 2:01 PM EDT (18:01 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 1, 2025, 1:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2025, 8:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
Counties Nicholas County, WV, Pocahontas County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Webster County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 255 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
- 1058 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this frost advisory 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 frost advisory went out at May 30, 7:44 PM EDT, 18 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 30, 7:44 PM EDT, 18 hours 17 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 12:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Wyoming | 20 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.