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Flash Flood Warning 189, NWS Charleston, WV

September 3, 2026Washington County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Sep 3, 2026, 3:28 PM EDT for Washington County, Ohio. It was in force for 114 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 3, 2026, 3:28 PM EDT (19:28 UTC)
Expired: Sep 3, 2026, 5:22 PM EDT
In force: 114 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Washington County, OH

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:29 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 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 159 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: 2237 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 974 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 2.2

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 Sep 3, 12:59 PM EDT, 2 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 3, 12:59 PM EDT, 2 hours 29 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
Sep 3, 2:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Pleasants, Tyler	23 min
Sep 3, 3:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Pleasants, Tyler	33 min
Sep 3, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Randolph	35 min
Sep 3, 4:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Washington	12 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 2026 Every flash flood warning in 2026

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.