Alert archive / West Virginia / Winter Storm Warnings in 2026
Winter Storm Warning 2, NWS Baltimore/Washington
NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this winter storm warning at Feb 5, 2026, 1:17 PM EST for Garrett County, Maryland; Grant County, Pendleton County, West Virginia. It took effect at Feb 6, 2026, 10:00 AM EST. It was in force for 21 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
- Feb 5, 2026, 1:17 PM EST (18:17 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 6, 2026, 10:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 7, 2026, 7:00 AM EST
- In force
- 21 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Baltimore/Washington
Counties Garrett County, MD, Grant County, WV, Pendleton County, WV
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:19 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
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 1517 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Baltimore/Washington issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 2:58 AM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | LWX | Highland | 10 hr |
| Feb 5, 4:55 AM EST | Heavy Freezing Spray Watch | LWX | 21 hr | |
| Feb 5, 1:07 PM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | LWX | Arlington, Clarke, Fairfax, Fauquier, Frederick, Highland and 16 more | 13 hr |
| Feb 5, 1:07 PM EST | Extreme Cold Warning | LWX | Albemarle, Amherst, Arlington, Augusta, Clarke, Fairfax and 23 more | 69 hr |
| Feb 5, 1:07 PM EST | High Wind Watch | LWX | Albemarle, Amherst, Augusta, Greene, Highland, Madison and 6 more | 13 hr |
| Feb 5, 1:17 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | LWX | Highland | 42 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Warnings in West Virginia, 2026Winter Storm Warnings in Maryland, 2026Every winter storm warning in 2026
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.