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Flood Watch 13, NWS Charleston, WV

August 10, 202634 counties in West Virginia; 9 counties in Ohio; 4 counties in Kentucky

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flood watch at Aug 10, 2026, 12:35 PM EDT for 34 counties in West Virginia; 9 counties in Ohio; 4 counties in Kentucky. It took effect at Aug 10, 2026, 2:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 10, 2026, 12:35 PM EDT (16:35 UTC)
In effect from: Aug 10, 2026, 2:00 PM EDT
Expired: Aug 14, 2026, 6:59 PM EDT
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Flood severity: None

All 47 counties

Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Athens County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Perry County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Washington County, OH, Barbour County, WV, Boone County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Mason County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Pocahontas County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Webster County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV, Wyoming County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 215 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: 2640 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 626 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 199 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 178 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.7
Supercell composite: 9.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Aug 10, 6:44 AM EDT, 5 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 6:44 AM EDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before

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In the hours before

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Special weather statement, Aug 10, 11:44 AM EDT, 51 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, 8:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Fayette	53 min
Aug 10, 12:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Pleasants, Tyler, Wood	27 min
Aug 10, 12:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Pleasants, Tyler, Wood	33 min
Aug 10, 12:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Doddridge, Harrison, Pleasants, Ritchie, Tyler, Wirt and 1 more	31 min
Aug 10, 12:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Wood	27 min
Aug 10, 1:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Barbour, Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison, Lewis and 5 more	35 min
Aug 10, 1:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Ritchie, Wirt, Wood	31 min
Aug 10, 1:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Calhoun, Gilmer, Jackson, Lewis, Roane	31 min
Aug 10, 1:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Barbour, Upshur	28 min
Aug 10, 1:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Gilmer, Lewis, Roane and 1 more	32 min
Aug 10, 2:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Kanawha, Roane	13 min
Aug 10, 2:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Clay	31 min
Aug 10, 2:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Pocahontas, Randolph, Webster	28 min
Aug 10, 2:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Fayette	31 min
Aug 10, 2:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Clay, Fayette, Kanawha, Nicholas, Pocahontas, Raleigh and 2 more	34 min
Aug 10, 3:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Fayette, Pocahontas, Raleigh	18 min
Aug 10, 3:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Doddridge, Pleasants	28 min
Aug 10, 5:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Mason	45 min
Aug 10, 6:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	RLX	Mason	52 min
Aug 10, 6:23 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Mason	37 min
Aug 10, 6:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Kanawha, Mason, Putnam	28 min
Aug 9, 11:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Perry	37 min
Aug 9, 11:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Perry	33 min
Aug 10, 9:45 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Perry	30 min
Aug 10, 10:06 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Perry	24 min
Aug 10, 10:26 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Morgan, Perry	34 min
Aug 10, 10:58 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Morgan	17 min
Aug 10, 11:27 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Morgan, Perry	33 min
Aug 10, 11:30 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Washington	30 min
Aug 10, 11:44 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Washington	16 min
Aug 10, 11:56 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Morgan, Perry	34 min
Aug 10, 12:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	RLX	Athens, Morgan, Perry, Vinton	37 min
Aug 10, 1:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens, Meigs, Vinton	33 min
Aug 10, 5:56 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Gallia, Meigs, Vinton	34 min

Nearby

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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.