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High Wind Watch 1, NWS Charleston, WV

February 15, 2025Pocahontas County, Randolph County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this high wind watch at Feb 15, 2025, 2:59 AM EST for Pocahontas County, Randolph County, West Virginia. It took effect at Feb 16, 2025, 10:00 AM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 15, 2025, 2:59 AM EST (07:59 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 16, 2025, 10:00 AM EST
Expired: Feb 15, 2025, 2:05 PM EST
In force
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 08:01 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 high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Feb 15, 2:25 AM EST, 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 15, 2:25 AM EST, 34 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 14, 4:26 PM EST, 10 hours 33 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
Feb 15, 2:47 AM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	RLX	Pocahontas, Randolph, Webster	12 hr
Feb 15, 10:35 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Boone, Logan, McDowell, Mingo, Raleigh, Wyoming	35 hr
Feb 15, 2:05 PM EST	Wind Advisory	RLX	Pocahontas, Randolph	47 hr
Feb 15, 2:29 PM EST	Winter Storm Warning	RLX	Pocahontas, Randolph, Webster	47 hr
Feb 15, 2:29 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	RLX	Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 27 more	47 hr
Feb 15, 2:48 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Logan, McDowell, Mingo, Wyoming	8 hr
Feb 15, 3:42 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Boone, Fayette, Kanawha, Nicholas, Raleigh	18 hr
Feb 15, 4:28 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Boone, Lincoln, Logan, Mingo, Wayne	29 hr
Feb 15, 5:17 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Boone, Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Putnam, Wayne	42 hr
Feb 15, 5:53 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Barbour, Braxton, Clay, Fayette, Kanawha, Lewis and 5 more	16 hr
Feb 15, 6:41 PM EST	River Flood Warning	RLX	McDowell, Mingo	12 hr
Feb 15, 5:59 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Boyd, Carter, Greenup	40 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.