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Frost Advisory 7, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this frost advisory at May 1, 2026, 1:25 PM EDT for 15 counties in West Virginia; 9 counties in Ohio; Boyd County, Carter County, Greenup County, Kentucky. It took effect at May 2, 2026, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 1, 2026, 1:25 PM EDT (17:25 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 2, 2026, 12:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- May 2, 2026, 9:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
All 27 counties
Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Greenup 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, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Mason County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:26 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 1358 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this frost advisory 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 frost advisory went out at May 1, 5:20 AM EDT, 8 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 1, 5:20 AM EDT, 8 hours 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 1:25 PM EDT | Freeze Watch | RLX | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 28 more | 23 hr |
| May 1, 6:14 PM EDT | Freeze Warning | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph, Webster | 15 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.