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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Charleston, WV

March 16, 2025Pocahontas County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 2025, 2:56 PM EDT for Pocahontas County, West Virginia. It was in force for 19 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, 2:56 PM EDT (18:56 UTC)
Expired: Mar 16, 2025, 3:15 PM EDT
In force: 19 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Pocahontas County, WV

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:59 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

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 134 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 892 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 75 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 427 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 866 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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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 Mar 16, 2:10 PM EDT, 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 16, 2:10 PM EDT, 46 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 16, 2:07 PM EDT, 49 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 16, 2:02 PM EDT, 54 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 16, 2:06 PM EDT, 50 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 16, 2:10 PM EDT, 46 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 16, 2:16 PM EDT, 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 16, 2:28 PM EDT, 28 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 16, 2:53 PM EDT, 3 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
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, 12:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Barbour, Braxton, Harrison, Lewis, Randolph, Upshur and 1 more	45 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, 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

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 2025 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2025

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.