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Flash Flood Warning 44, NWS Charleston, WV

July 5, 2026Ritchie County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2026, 2:38 PM EDT for Ritchie County, West Virginia. It was in force for 2 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 5, 2026, 2:38 PM EDT (18:38 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 2026, 5:04 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Ritchie County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 160 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 2026-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 425 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 2026-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
425 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
802 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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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 5, 1:52 PM EDT, 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 1:52 PM EDT, 46 minutes before
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In the hours before

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Special weather statement, Jul 5, 1:46 PM EDT, 52 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 5, 2:13 PM EDT, 25 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 4, 8:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXMingo32 min
Jul 4, 8:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLincoln, Logan, Mingo, Wayne34 min
Jul 4, 9:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBoone, Lincoln, Logan, Mingo, Wayne23 min
Jul 4, 9:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBoone, Lincoln, Logan33 min
Jul 4, 10:13 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXLincoln47 min
Jul 4, 10:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXWood31 min
Jul 5, 12:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXPleasants29 min
Jul 5, 1:03 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXPleasants, Tyler27 min
Jul 5, 1:18 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXWood27 min
Jul 5, 1:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXRitchie29 min
Jul 5, 2:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXJackson, Roane, Wirt34 min
Jul 5, 3:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXCalhoun, Roane35 min
Jul 5, 3:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXJackson, Mason, Wirt, Wood32 min
Jul 5, 3:54 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXCalhoun36 min
Jul 5, 3:58 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXJackson32 min
Jul 5, 4:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXMason34 min
Jul 5, 4:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXMason14 min
Jul 5, 4:58 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXPutnam32 min
Jul 5, 4:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXMason31 min
Jul 5, 5:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXPocahontas24 min
Jul 5, 5:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXJackson, Kanawha, Putnam30 min
Jul 5, 5:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXMason35 min
Jul 5, 5:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXKanawha, Putnam21 min
Jul 5, 5:55 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXFayette35 min
Jul 5, 6:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXBoone34 min
Jul 5, 7:41 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXBoone, Logan3 hr
Jul 4, 8:03 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXPerry27 min
Jul 4, 8:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMorgan, Washington30 min
Jul 4, 8:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMorgan22 min
Jul 4, 9:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMorgan, Washington34 min
Jul 4, 9:51 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXMorgan3 hr
Jul 5, 2:13 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXWashington32 min
Jul 5, 3:09 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXMorgan36 min
Jul 5, 5:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXMeigs34 min
Jul 5, 6:35 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXAthens25 min
Jul 4, 9:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXCarter30 min
Jul 4, 9:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLXBoyd, Carter34 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.