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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Charleston, WV

April 5, 2025Boone County, Kanawha County, Lincoln County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 5, 2025, 4:26 PM EDT for Boone County, Kanawha County, Lincoln County, 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: Apr 5, 2025, 4:26 PM EDT (20:26 UTC)
Expired: Apr 5, 2025, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Boone County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lincoln County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 224 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: 1253 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -100 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 Apr 4, 7:00 PM EDT, 21 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 4, 7:00 PM EDT, 21 hours 26 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
Apr 5, 3:56 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	RLX	Mason	43 hr
Apr 5, 7:36 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Boone, Lincoln	24 min
Apr 5, 12:37 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	RLX	Jackson, Wood	32 hr
Apr 5, 12:38 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	RLX	Cabell, Wayne	24 hr
Apr 5, 12:38 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	RLX	Wood	24 hr
Apr 5, 12:39 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	RLX	Jackson, Mason	32 hr
Apr 5, 3:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Lincoln	30 min
Apr 5, 4:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boone, Lincoln, Wayne	24 min
Apr 5, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boone, Kanawha	31 min
Apr 5, 5:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Clay, Fayette, Kanawha, Nicholas	34 min
Apr 5, 5:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Clay, Nicholas, Webster	34 min
Apr 5, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	RLX	Pocahontas, Randolph, Webster	32 min
Apr 5, 6:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Pocahontas, Randolph, Webster	33 min
Apr 5, 7:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Pocahontas, Randolph	33 min
Apr 5, 1:01 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Morgan	29 min
Apr 5, 1:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Morgan	15 min
Apr 5, 11:50 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	RLX	Morgan	33 hr
Apr 5, 12:35 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	RLX	Lawrence	55 hr
Apr 5, 12:39 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	RLX	Scioto	67 hr
Apr 5, 3:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Lawrence	31 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.