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Flash Flood Warning 143, NWS Charleston, WV

July 30, 2025Kanawha County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 30, 2025, 11:39 PM EDT for Kanawha County, West Virginia. 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 30, 2025, 11:39 PM EDT (03:39 UTC)
Expired: Jul 31, 2025, 2:45 AM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Kanawha County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:38 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 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 261 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: 428 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1504 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 30, 11:23 PM EDT, 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 11:23 PM EDT, 16 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 30, 9:07 PM EDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Charleston WV
907 PM EDT Wed Jul 30 2025

WVZ019-020-029-030-310145-
Doddridge WV-Ritchie WV-Lewis WV-Gilmer WV-
907 PM EDT Wed Jul 30 2025

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT SOUTHEASTERN RITCHIE...
SOUTHEASTERN DODDRIDGE...NORTHEASTERN GILMER AND LEWIS COUNTIES
THROUGH 945 PM EDT...

At 906 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a cluster of strong
thunderstorms 7 miles west of Stonewall Jackson, or 7 miles west of
Weston, moving southeast at 10 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects.

Locations impacted include...
Weston, Stonewall Jackson, Jackson Mill, Jane Lew, Auburn, Camden,
Baldwin, Avon, Sand Run, Grove, Leopold, Troy, Alum Bridge, Coxs
Mills, Linn, and Horner.

This includes the following highways...
 Interstate 79 between mile markers 83 and 105.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.

To report severe weather, contact your nearest law enforcement
agency. They will relay your report to the National Weather Service
office in Charleston West Virginia.

&&

LAT...LON 3918 8056 3918 8059 3917 8059 3915 8054
      3915 8049 3908 8030 3906 8031 3885 8054
      3887 8056 3886 8058 3890 8061 3889 8064
      3911 8093 3922 8067
TIME...MOT...LOC 0106Z 310DEG 8KT 3903 8061

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

FMK

Special weather statement, Jul 30, 9:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Charleston WV
940 PM EDT Wed Jul 30 2025

WVZ015-026-310215-
Boone WV-Kanawha WV-
940 PM EDT Wed Jul 30 2025

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT CENTRAL KANAWHA AND NORTHEASTERN
BOONE COUNTIES THROUGH 1015 PM EDT...

At 940 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a cluster of strong
thunderstorms over Marmet, or near Charleston, moving southeast at 10
mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects.

Locations impacted include...
Charleston, Chesapeake, Marmet, Belle, Cedar Grove, East Bank,
Glasgow, Pratt, Coal Fork, Handley, Dawes, and Sharon.

This includes the following highways...
 Interstate 77 in West Virginia between mile markers 96 and 100, and
near mile marker 102.
 West Virginia Turnpike between mile markers 77 and 95.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.

To report severe weather, contact your nearest law enforcement
agency. They will relay your report to the National Weather Service
office in Charleston West Virginia.

&&

LAT...LON 3826 8172 3837 8161 3825 8130 3804 8152
TIME...MOT...LOC 0140Z 310DEG 8KT 3827 8160

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

FMK

Special weather statement, Jul 30, 10:29 PM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Charleston WV
1029 PM EDT Wed Jul 30 2025

WVZ521-522-525-526-310315-
Southeast Webster WV-Northwest Randolph WV-Northwest Webster WV-
Southeast Randolph WV-
1029 PM EDT Wed Jul 30 2025

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT SOUTHWESTERN RANDOLPH AND EAST
CENTRAL WEBSTER COUNTIES THROUGH 1115 PM EDT...

At 1029 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a cluster of strong
thunderstorms 11 miles northwest of Snowshoe, or 14 miles northwest
of Cass Scenic Railroad, moving east at 10 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects.

Locations impacted include...
Mingo, Huttonsville, Monterville, Valley Head, Bergoo, and Waneta.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.

To report severe weather, contact your nearest law enforcement
agency. They will relay your report to the National Weather Service
office in Charleston West Virginia.

&&

LAT...LON 3854 7987 3847 8001 3846 8005 3847 8012
      3844 8016 3842 8029 3855 8037 3873 7994
      3856 7986
TIME...MOT...LOC 0229Z 249DEG 9KT 3854 8012

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

FMK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 30, 9:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Lewis	38 min
Jul 30, 9:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Kanawha	35 min
Jul 30, 10:00 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Lewis	3 hr
Jul 30, 10:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Pocahontas	46 min
Jul 30, 10:54 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Randolph, Webster	3 hr
Jul 31, 12:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Ritchie	51 min
Jul 31, 12:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Wirt	34 min
Jul 31, 12:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Doddridge, Harrison	47 min
Jul 31, 2:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Taylor	39 min
Jul 31, 2:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Braxton	44 min
Jul 31, 2:35 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Harrison	3 hr
Jul 31, 7:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Mingo	37 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.