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Flash Flood Warning 121, NWS Charleston, WV

July 16, 2025Pleasants County, West Virginia; Washington County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 16, 2025, 8:02 PM EDT for Pleasants County, West Virginia; Washington County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 16, 2025, 8:02 PM EDT (00:02 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 2025, 11:15 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Washington County, OH, Pleasants County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 293 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1422 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1076 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.1

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Jul 16, 2:04 PM EDT, 5 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 2:04 PM EDT, 5 hours 58 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 16, 5:23 PM EDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 16, 6:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 16, 6:22 PM EDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 16, 7:45 PM EDT, 17 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 16, 8:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Clay, Kanawha	41 min
Jul 16, 8:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Clay, Kanawha, Roane	26 min
Jul 16, 8:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Braxton, Clay	44 min
Jul 16, 9:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Lewis, Upshur	28 min
Jul 17, 3:17 AM EDT	Flood Watch	RLX	Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 28 more	21 hr
Jul 17, 1:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Cabell	33 min
Jul 17, 1:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Wayne	31 min
Jul 17, 1:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Wayne	35 min
Jul 17, 1:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Putnam	32 min
Jul 17, 2:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Lincoln, Wayne	37 min
Jul 17, 2:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Kanawha	30 min
Jul 17, 2:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Kanawha	28 min
Jul 17, 2:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Lincoln	31 min
Jul 17, 2:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Boone, Clay, Kanawha	31 min
Jul 17, 3:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Boone, Clay, Fayette, Nicholas, Webster	44 min
Jul 17, 5:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Raleigh, Wyoming	39 min
Jul 17, 5:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Mason	28 min
Jul 17, 5:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wood	26 min
Jul 17, 5:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell, Lincoln, Wayne	38 min
Jul 17, 5:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wayne	27 min
Jul 17, 6:04 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Wood	3 hr
Jul 17, 6:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Mingo	43 min
Jul 17, 4:24 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Jackson	3 hr
Jul 17, 7:23 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Jackson	15 hr
Jul 17, 12:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Lawrence	35 min
Jul 17, 3:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Carter, Greenup	41 min
Jul 17, 4:04 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Lawrence	3 hr
Jul 17, 4:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Lawrence	44 min
Jul 17, 7:10 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	Lawrence	6 hr

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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.