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River Flood Warning 15, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this river flood warning at Sep 21, 2026, 9:00 AM EDT for Athens County, Ohio. It took effect at Sep 21, 2026, 12:31 PM EDT. It was in force for 17 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 21, 2026, 9:00 AM EDT (13:00 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 21, 2026, 12:31 PM EDT
- Expired
- Sep 22, 2026, 5:24 AM EDT
- In force
- 17 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Athens County, OH
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Hocking River at Athens (ATHO1). The gauge peaked at 20.50 ft at Sep 23, 2026, 5:00 AM EDT.
- Action stage
- 18 ft
- Minor stage
- 20 ft
- Moderate stage
- 22 ft
- Major stage
- 28 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03159500, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this river 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 river flood warning went out at Sep 21, 3:40 AM EDT, 5 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 21, 3:40 AM EDT, 5 hours 20 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 20, 10:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson, Mason, Wood | 6 hr |
| Sep 20, 11:22 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson, Mason | 5 hr |
| Sep 20, 11:33 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson, Wirt, Wood | 6 hr |
| Sep 21, 12:06 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Mason | 24 min |
| Sep 21, 12:13 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wood | 4 hr |
| Sep 21, 12:20 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Jackson | 25 min |
| Sep 21, 12:28 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson, Ritchie, Roane, Wirt, Wood | 5 hr |
| Sep 21, 12:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Jackson, Ritchie, Roane, Wirt | 39 min |
| Sep 21, 12:42 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Jackson, Wirt, Wood | 33 min |
| Sep 21, 1:01 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Gilmer, Ritchie, Roane, Wirt | 4 hr |
| Sep 21, 1:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Calhoun, Gilmer | 50 min |
| Sep 21, 1:22 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Gilmer | 23 min |
| Sep 21, 1:37 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Jackson, Roane | 3 hr |
| Sep 21, 1:52 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Braxton, Gilmer, Ritchie | 3 hr |
| Sep 21, 2:09 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Braxton, Clay, Upshur | 36 min |
| Sep 21, 2:35 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pleasants, Ritchie, Wood | 106 min |
| Sep 21, 2:38 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Braxton, Doddridge, Gilmer, Lewis, Ritchie | 111 min |
| Sep 21, 2:48 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Lewis, Upshur | 27 min |
| Sep 21, 4:44 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson, Mason, Wood | 48 hr |
| Sep 21, 5:19 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson, Wirt, Wood | 9 hr |
| Sep 21, 5:30 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Jackson, Pleasants, Ritchie, Roane, Wirt and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 21, 8:17 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Gilmer, Ritchie, Roane, Wirt | 4 hr |
| Sep 21, 10:19 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Wood | 26 min |
| Sep 21, 10:44 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Wirt, Wood | 31 min |
| Sep 21, 12:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Fayette | 45 min |
| Sep 21, 12:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette, Nicholas | 32 min |
| Sep 21, 1:02 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Ritchie, Wirt | 10 hr |
| Sep 21, 1:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Pocahontas | 30 min |
| Sep 21, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell | 25 min |
| Sep 21, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell, Wyoming | 33 min |
| Sep 21, 3:52 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | McDowell, Wyoming | 3 hr |
| Sep 21, 4:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell | 29 min |
| Sep 21, 4:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Wyoming | 26 min |
| Sep 21, 4:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Raleigh | 32 min |
| Sep 21, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette, Raleigh | 26 min |
| Sep 21, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette | 25 min |
| Sep 21, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Raleigh | 30 min |
| Sep 21, 5:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Webster | 37 min |
| Sep 21, 5:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Pocahontas | 36 min |
| Sep 21, 5:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Wayne | 16 min |
| Sep 21, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wayne | 35 min |
| Sep 21, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph | 23 min |
| Sep 21, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Lincoln, Logan, Wayne | 34 min |
| Sep 21, 6:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Pocahontas | 28 min |
| Sep 21, 6:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Lincoln, Logan, Mingo, Wayne | 13 min |
| Sep 21, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Lincoln, Logan, Mingo, Wayne | 34 min |
| Sep 21, 7:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Randolph | 35 min |
| Sep 21, 7:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Logan | 34 min |
| Sep 21, 7:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boone, Clay, Fayette, Kanawha, Nicholas | 2 hr |
| Sep 21, 7:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Logan | 11 min |
| Sep 20, 9:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Vinton | 35 min |
| Sep 20, 10:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Vinton | 37 min |
| Sep 20, 10:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson, Meigs, Vinton | 6 hr |
| Sep 20, 10:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Athens, Meigs, Vinton | 6 hr |
| Sep 20, 10:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Athens, Vinton | 6 hr |
| Sep 20, 10:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Vinton | 19 min |
| Sep 20, 11:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Athens, Vinton | 10 min |
| Sep 20, 11:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Athens, Gallia, Jackson, Meigs, Vinton | 32 min |
| Sep 20, 11:25 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Gallia, Jackson, Vinton | 4 hr |
| Sep 20, 11:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Meigs | 35 min |
| Sep 20, 11:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Meigs | 36 min |
| Sep 21, 12:06 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Morgan, Perry | 4 hr |
| Sep 21, 3:52 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Gallia, Jackson, Meigs, Vinton | 6 hr |
| Sep 21, 4:42 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson, Meigs, Vinton | 49 hr |
| Sep 21, 4:43 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Athens, Meigs, Vinton | 49 hr |
| Sep 21, 4:46 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Athens, Morgan, Vinton, Washington | 49 hr |
| Sep 21, 4:54 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Washington | 25 hr |
| Sep 21, 5:49 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Athens | 24 hr |
| Sep 21, 8:31 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Athens, Morgan, Perry, Washington | 7 hr |
| Sep 21, 9:37 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Athens, Meigs, Morgan, Perry | 38 min |
| Sep 21, 1:56 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Washington | 20 hr |
| Sep 21, 2:16 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Washington | 16 hr |
| Sep 21, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boyd, Carter, Greenup, Lawrence | 33 min |
| Sep 21, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boyd, Carter, Lawrence | 35 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.