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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Charleston, WV

June 14, 20264 counties in West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2026, 4:11 PM EDT for 4 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 49 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: Jun 14, 2026, 4:11 PM EDT (20:11 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2026, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Braxton County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Upshur County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 14, 1:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 175 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: 68 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -187 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1223 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 133 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 14, 1:28 PM EDT, 2 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 1:28 PM EDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before

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In the hours 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
Jun 14, 1:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Mason	24 min
Jun 14, 2:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Wyoming	43 min
Jun 14, 2:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	McDowell	31 min
Jun 14, 2:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Jackson, Wirt	50 min
Jun 14, 2:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Raleigh	45 min
Jun 14, 2:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Pocahontas	47 min
Jun 14, 3:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Gilmer	48 min
Jun 14, 3:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer, Lewis, Ritchie	41 min
Jun 14, 4:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Upshur	44 min
Jun 14, 5:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Barbour, Upshur	27 min
Jun 14, 5:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Tucker	9 min
Jun 14, 5:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Barbour	15 min
Jun 14, 6:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Wirt, Wood	53 min
Jun 14, 6:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Doddridge, Harrison, Tyler	43 min
Jun 14, 6:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Jackson, Mason, Putnam	54 min
Jun 14, 6:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison, Ritchie, Tyler and 1 more	66 min
Jun 14, 7:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Cabell, Wayne	50 min
Jun 14, 7:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Kanawha, Putnam, Roane	46 min
Jun 14, 7:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison, Lewis, Ritchie and 2 more	38 min
Jun 14, 7:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Braxton, Calhoun, Gilmer, Roane	66 min
Jun 14, 7:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Barbour, Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison, Lewis and 3 more	61 min
Jun 14, 7:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Boone, Clay, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, Mingo and 1 more	56 min
Jun 14, 2:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Morgan	47 min
Jun 14, 4:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Perry	61 min
Jun 14, 5:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Morgan, Perry	61 min
Jun 14, 5:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Athens, Jackson, Meigs, Vinton	63 min
Jun 14, 6:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Gallia, Lawrence	58 min
Jun 14, 6:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Athens, Washington	60 min
Jun 14, 6:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Boyd, Carter, Greenup	65 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.