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Snow Squall Warning 27, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this snow squall warning at Mar 17, 2026, 11:49 AM EDT for Kanawha County, Lincoln County, Putnam County, West Virginia. It was in force for 26 min. 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 17, 2026, 11:49 AM EDT (15:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2026, 12:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Kanawha County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Putnam County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:50 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, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 274 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
- 492 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 93 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this snow squall 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 snow squall warning went out at Mar 16, 7:27 PM EDT, 16 hours 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 16, 7:27 PM EDT, 16 hours 22 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 16, 10:17 PM EDT | Snow Squall Warning | RLX | Braxton, Clay, Lewis, Nicholas, Randolph, Roane and 2 more | 28 min |
| Mar 17, 12:13 AM EDT | Snow Squall Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Jackson, Mason, Ritchie, Roane, Wirt and 1 more | 32 min |
| Mar 17, 2:04 AM EDT | Winter Weather Advisory | RLX | McDowell | 12 hr |
Nearby
Snow Squall Warnings in West Virginia, 2026Every snow squall 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.