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Frost Advisory 8, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this frost advisory at Oct 8, 2025, 3:03 AM EDT for 7 counties in West Virginia. It took effect at Oct 9, 2025, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 8, 2025, 3:03 AM EDT (07:03 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 9, 2025, 2:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 9, 2025, 9:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 7 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 07:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 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
- 41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 559 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 8, 3:03 AM EDT | Freeze Watch | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph | 33 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.