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Flash Flood Warning 186, NWS Charleston, WV

August 22, 2026Pleasants County, Ritchie County, Tyler County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 22, 2026, 4:59 PM EDT for Pleasants County, Ritchie County, Tyler 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
Aug 22, 2026, 4:59 PM EDT (20:59 UTC)
Expired
Aug 22, 2026, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Pleasants County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Tyler County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 144 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2026-08-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 84 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2026-08-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
84 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-98 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1145 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 21, 8:18 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXWebster57 min
Aug 22, 1:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXWayne32 min
Aug 22, 2:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXLincoln25 min
Aug 22, 2:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLincoln, Logan, Mingo, Wayne36 min
Aug 22, 2:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXCabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Putnam31 min
Aug 22, 2:17 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXJackson, Mason28 min
Aug 22, 2:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXWood35 min
Aug 22, 2:34 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXCabell26 min
Aug 22, 2:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXLogan30 min
Aug 22, 2:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXPutnam26 min
Aug 22, 2:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXPleasants, Wood34 min
Aug 22, 3:07 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXPutnam23 min
Aug 22, 3:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXPutnam33 min
Aug 22, 3:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXBoone30 min
Aug 22, 3:52 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXPleasants, Ritchie, Tyler, Wirt, Wood38 min
Aug 22, 4:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXDoddridge, Pleasants, Ritchie, Tyler34 min
Aug 22, 4:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXDoddridge, Harrison, Tyler33 min
Aug 22, 5:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXPocahontas29 min
Aug 22, 5:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXSummers19 min
Aug 22, 5:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXPocahontas29 min
Aug 22, 5:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXJackson, Mason, Pleasants, Wood49 min
Aug 22, 6:09 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXPocahontas21 min
Aug 22, 6:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXWyoming31 min
Aug 22, 6:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXCalhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer, Jackson, Pleasants, Ritchie and 4 more49 min
Aug 22, 6:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMcDowell, Wyoming17 min
Aug 22, 6:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMcDowell, Wyoming19 min
Aug 22, 7:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBraxton, Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison, Lewis and 3 more48 min
Aug 22, 1:58 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXAthens, Morgan, Washington32 min
Aug 22, 4:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXPerry31 min
Aug 22, 5:07 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXAthens, Jackson, Vinton23 min
Aug 22, 5:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXAthens, Meigs35 min
Aug 22, 5:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXAthens, Gallia, Jackson, Meigs, Vinton29 min
Aug 22, 5:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXGallia, Jackson, Vinton26 min
Aug 22, 6:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXWashington25 min
Aug 22, 6:25 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXAthens, Jackson, Meigs, Vinton3 hr
Aug 22, 3:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXCarter, Greenup32 min
Aug 22, 4:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXCarter, Greenup33 min
Aug 22, 4:42 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXCarter33 min
Aug 22, 5:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXCarter34 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.