A cold front, with a wave of low pressure lifting along it, moved across the central Appalachians on the 20th. This resulted in showers and thunderstorms.
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The episode as NWS RLX wrote it up.
A cold front, with a wave of low pressure lifting along it, moved across the central Appalachians on the 20th. This resulted in showers and thunderstorms. Some of these were strong to severe with damaging wind gusts and hail.
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 34 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:47 UTC.
2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Several trees were blown down, taking down power lines as well.
Pea to dime sized hail covered the ground.
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