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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 2025, 12:15 PM EDT for 7 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 45 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
- Mar 16, 2025, 12:15 PM EDT (16:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 2025, 1:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Barbour County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Webster County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 10:31 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
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 Mar 15, 7:28 PM EDT, 16 hours 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 7:28 PM EDT, 16 hours 47 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 9:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Lincoln, Logan, Mingo, Wayne | 48 min |
| Mar 16, 10:19 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Logan, Mingo | 41 min |
| Mar 16, 10:32 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, Putnam and 1 more | 43 min |
| Mar 16, 10:50 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Calhoun, Roane | 25 min |
| Mar 16, 11:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Calhoun, Gilmer, Ritchie, Roane, Wirt | 45 min |
| Mar 16, 11:07 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Tyler | 23 min |
| Mar 16, 11:16 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Kanawha, Nicholas, Roane | 29 min |
| Mar 16, 11:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Tyler | 24 min |
| Mar 16, 11:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Pleasants, Ritchie, Tyler | 37 min |
| Mar 16, 11:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison, Lewis, Ritchie and 2 more | 41 min |
| Mar 16, 11:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Clay, Nicholas, Webster | 27 min |
| Mar 16, 11:51 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Barbour, Doddridge, Harrison, Taylor, Tyler | 24 min |
| Mar 16, 11:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette, Nicholas | 35 min |
| Mar 16, 12:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Barbour, Harrison, Taylor | 31 min |
| Mar 16, 12:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Clay, Nicholas, Randolph, Webster | 43 min |
| Mar 16, 12:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Wood | 38 min |
| Mar 16, 12:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Summers | 36 min |
| Mar 16, 12:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette, Nicholas, Raleigh | 37 min |
| Mar 16, 12:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Barbour, Nicholas, Pocahontas, Randolph, Upshur, Webster | 62 min |
| Mar 16, 2:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Pocahontas | 28 min |
| Mar 16, 2:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Pocahontas | 47 min |
| Mar 16, 2:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 29 min |
| Mar 16, 2:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 27 min |
| Mar 16, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 19 min |
| Mar 16, 5:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Braxton, Clay | 27 min |
| Mar 16, 10:42 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Jackson, Lawrence, Perry, Vinton | 33 min |
| Mar 16, 11:17 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Athens, Meigs, Morgan, Perry | 43 min |
| Mar 16, 11:39 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Athens, Morgan, Perry, Washington | 36 min |
| Mar 16, 4:50 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Greenup | 25 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.