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Snow Squall Warning 9, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this snow squall warning at Jan 11, 2026, 9:05 AM EST for 8 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 40 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
- Jan 11, 2026, 9:05 AM EST (14:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 11, 2026, 9:45 AM EST
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Braxton County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Roane County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:06 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, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 832 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 111 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 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 Jan 10, 2:08 PM EST, 18 hours 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 10, 2:08 PM EST, 18 hours 57 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 11, 8:12 AM EST | Snow Squall Warning | RLX | Cabell, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln, Mason, Putnam and 2 more | 48 min |
| Jan 11, 8:32 AM EST | Snow Squall Warning | RLX | Boone, Calhoun, Gilmer, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln and 3 more | 43 min |
| Jan 11, 9:59 AM EST | Snow Squall Warning | RLX | Braxton, Clay, Gilmer, Lewis, Nicholas, Pocahontas and 3 more | 31 min |
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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.