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Wind Advisory 1, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this wind advisory at Jan 26, 2025, 1:52 PM EST for Pocahontas County, Randolph County, West Virginia. It took effect at Jan 28, 2025, 12:00 AM EST. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 26, 2025, 1:52 PM EST (18:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 28, 2025, 12:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Jan 28, 2025, 3:00 PM EST
- In force
- 15 hr
- 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 18:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 207 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 980 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 103 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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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.