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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 280, NWS Charleston, WV

August 10, 2026Ritchie County, Wirt County, Wood County, West Virginia; Athens County, Washington County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2026, 1:14 PM EDT for Ritchie County, Wirt County, Wood County, West Virginia; Athens County, Washington County, Ohio. 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 10, 2026, 1:14 PM EDT (17:14 UTC)
Expired: Aug 10, 2026, 1:45 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Athens County, OH, Washington County, OH, Ritchie County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:14 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
Aug 10, 12:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 177 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: 1604 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 812 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 149 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 134 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 4.2

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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 Aug 10, 6:44 AM EDT, 6 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 6:44 AM EDT, 6 hours 30 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 10, 9:45 AM EDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 10, 11:30 AM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 10, 12:03 PM EDT, 1 hour 11 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, 12:35 PM EDT	Flood Watch	RLX	Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 28 more	4 days
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, 1:44 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

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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.