Alert archive / West Virginia / Freeze Warnings in 2026
Freeze Warning 1, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this freeze warning at Mar 27, 2026, 9:10 AM EDT for 7 counties in West Virginia; 4 counties in Kentucky. It took effect at Mar 28, 2026, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 10 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
- Mar 27, 2026, 9:10 AM EDT (13:10 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 28, 2026, 12:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2026, 10:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
Counties Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Boone County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:09 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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 675 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 367 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze 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 freeze warning went out at Mar 27, 6:28 AM EDT, 2 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 27, 6:28 AM EDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 1:57 PM EDT | Freeze Watch | RLX | Boone, Lincoln, Logan, McDowell, Mingo, Wayne and 1 more | 23 hr |
| Mar 26, 9:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Perry | 36 min |
| Mar 27, 6:53 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Washington | 23 hr |
| Mar 27, 1:05 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Washington | 13 hr |
| Mar 27, 4:34 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Athens | 6 hr |
Nearby
Freeze Warnings in West Virginia, 2026Freeze Warnings in Kentucky, 2026Every freeze 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.