Nitro, WV Weather Forecast
Kanawha County, West Virginia
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Nitro, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
Sunrise and sunset
Next five days, scored 0 to 100The first day or two use the HRRR and NBM cloud layers. Later days only have total cloud, so treat them as a rough guide.
Know when sunset at this place will be worth a photo
We score every sunrise and sunset here from the cloud, haze and smoke forecast, and let you know when one is likely to light up. Sunrise the evening before, sunset a few hours ahead.
Seven-day outlook
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Nitro, WV at a glance
Nitro is home to about 6,426 people in Kanawha County, across 5.3 square miles. It ranks 22nd by population of 48 places in West Virginia with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is St. Albans, 2 miles away.
- County
- Kanawha County
- Population
- 6,426 2023 est.
- Land area
- 5.3 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,202
- Forecast point
- 38.4116°N, 81.8078°W
How well can the network see Nitro?
The nearest Doppler radar is KRLX (Charleston, WV), to the SSE. Its lowest scan passes about 420 ft above Nitro. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Nitro show up clearly. Nitro is closer to its radar than 97% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KCRW (Charleston/Yeager Arpt). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Nitro
- St. Albans, WV2 mi
- Dunbar, WV5 mi
- South Charleston, WV7 mi
- Charleston, WV10 mi
- Hurricane, WV11 mi
- Milton, WV18 mi
- Madison, WV24 mi
- Barboursville, WV26 mi
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