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Flood Watch 9, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flood watch at Jun 26, 2026, 2:24 AM EDT for 26 counties in West Virginia; 8 counties in Ohio; 4 counties in Kentucky. It took effect at Jun 26, 2026, 2:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 30 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 2026, 2:24 AM EDT (06:24 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 26, 2026, 2:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2026, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Flood severity
- None
All 38 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, 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, Gilmer County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Mason County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:24 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 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 222 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 338 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1024 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 12:31 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Wood | 44 min |
| Jun 26, 6:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Mingo | 36 min |
| Jun 26, 4:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Boyd | 32 min |
Nearby
Flood Watches in West Virginia, 2026Flood Watches in Ohio, 2026Flood Watches in Kentucky, 2026Every flood watch 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.