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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Charleston, WV

May 5, 20254 counties in West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2025, 1:56 PM EDT for 4 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 5, 2025, 1:56 PM EDT (17:56 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 2025, 2:30 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

Counties Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Roane County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 210 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 824 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 4, 7:23 PM EDT, 18 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 4, 7:23 PM EDT, 18 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
May 4, 8:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Barbour	21 min
May 5, 1:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Logan	24 min
May 5, 1:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Kanawha	29 min
May 5, 2:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Jackson	31 min
May 5, 2:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Roane, Wirt	27 min
May 5, 3:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Wirt, Wood	34 min
May 5, 3:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wood	31 min
May 5, 3:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens, Morgan, Washington	21 min
May 5, 4:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens, Morgan, Washington	30 min
May 5, 4:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Perry	27 min
May 5, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Morgan	30 min
May 5, 4:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Perry	29 min
May 5, 4:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Washington	22 min

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.