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Freeze Warning 7, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this freeze warning at Apr 20, 2026, 12:54 AM EDT for 34 counties in West Virginia; 9 counties in Ohio; 4 counties in Kentucky. It took effect at Apr 20, 2026, 11:00 PM 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
- Apr 20, 2026, 12:54 AM EDT (04:54 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 20, 2026, 11:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 21, 2026, 9:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
All 47 counties
Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Athens County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Perry County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Washington County, OH, Barbour County, WV, Boone County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Mason County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Pocahontas County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Webster County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:55 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 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1571 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 12:54 AM EDT | Frost Advisory | RLX | Boone, Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, McDowell and 3 more | 11 hr |
Nearby
Freeze Warnings in West Virginia, 2026Freeze Warnings in Ohio, 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.