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Flash Flood Warning 118, NWS Charleston, WV

August 9, 2026Lawrence County, Kentucky

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 9, 2026, 4:34 PM EDT for Lawrence County, Kentucky. 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: Aug 9, 2026, 4:34 PM EDT (20:34 UTC)
Expired: Aug 9, 2026, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Lawrence County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 301 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: 404 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -100 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 874 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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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 Aug 9, 2:25 PM EDT, 2 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 2:25 PM EDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 9, 11:07 AM EDT, 5 hours 27 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
Aug 9, 12:24 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Wood	36 min
Aug 9, 12:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wood	28 min
Aug 9, 12:57 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Pleasants, Ritchie, Wirt	48 min
Aug 9, 1:31 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison, Ritchie, Tyler	44 min
Aug 9, 2:16 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell	25 min
Aug 9, 6:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Cabell	30 min
Aug 8, 9:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Perry	34 min
Aug 8, 9:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Perry	34 min
Aug 8, 10:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Perry	32 min
Aug 8, 11:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Vinton	35 min
Aug 8, 11:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens, Jackson, Vinton	51 min
Aug 8, 11:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens, Morgan, Washington	47 min
Aug 8, 11:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Athens	41 min
Aug 9, 12:20 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Washington	40 min
Aug 9, 1:11 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Jackson	49 min
Aug 9, 1:44 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Gallia	46 min
Aug 9, 2:12 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Lawrence	33 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.