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Winter Storm Warning 5, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this winter storm warning at Jan 15, 2025, 1:45 PM EST for 6 counties in West Virginia. It took effect at Jan 16, 2025, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 22 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 15, 2025, 1:45 PM EST (18:45 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 16, 2025, 7:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Jan 17, 2025, 4:53 AM EST
- In force
- 22 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
Counties Barbour County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Pocahontas County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Webster County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:47 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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 522 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 15, 3:39 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | RLX | Barbour, Nicholas, Pocahontas, Randolph, Upshur, Webster | 10 hr |
| Jan 15, 3:49 AM EST | Cold Weather Advisory | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph | 24 hr |
| Jan 15, 1:45 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | RLX | Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge, Fayette, Gilmer and 10 more | 35 hr |
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.