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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 264, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2026, 12:59 PM EDT for 4 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 31 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
- Aug 8, 2026, 12:59 PM EDT (16:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2026, 1:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Clay County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Nicholas County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:01 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 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 253 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
- 266 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 914 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
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 Aug 7, 7:12 PM EDT, 17 hours 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 7:12 PM EDT, 17 hours 47 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 8:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Lewis | 36 min |
| Aug 7, 8:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Roane | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 10:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Raleigh | 36 min |
| Aug 7, 11:27 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Roane | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 6:54 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Pleasants | 36 min |
| Aug 8, 7:30 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Pleasants | 30 min |
| Aug 8, 7:44 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Tyler | 31 min |
| Aug 8, 9:40 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Wirt | 35 min |
| Aug 8, 9:55 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Mason | 35 min |
| Aug 8, 10:14 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Ritchie, Wirt | 31 min |
| Aug 8, 10:46 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Jackson, Mason | 29 min |
| Aug 8, 11:12 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Jackson, Roane | 33 min |
| Aug 8, 11:44 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Kanawha | 31 min |
| Aug 8, 12:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson, Kanawha, Putnam, Roane | 25 min |
| Aug 8, 12:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Clay, Kanawha | 32 min |
| Aug 8, 1:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Fayette | 29 min |
| Aug 8, 1:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Fayette | 24 min |
| Aug 8, 2:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Fayette | 30 min |
| Aug 8, 1:32 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Perry | 28 min |
| Aug 8, 2:26 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Morgan | 34 min |
| Aug 8, 6:32 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Washington | 28 min |
| Aug 8, 7:09 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Morgan | 36 min |
| Aug 8, 7:56 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Washington | 34 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.