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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 342, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 2026, 2:14 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 22, 2026, 2:14 PM EDT (18:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2026, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Cabell County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Putnam County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:16 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 22, 1:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 277 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
- 84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1145 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 8:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Webster | 57 min |
| Aug 22, 1:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Wayne | 32 min |
| Aug 22, 2:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Lincoln | 25 min |
| Aug 22, 2:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lincoln, Logan, Mingo, Wayne | 36 min |
| Aug 22, 2:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Jackson, Mason | 28 min |
| Aug 22, 2:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wood | 35 min |
| Aug 22, 2:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Cabell | 26 min |
| Aug 22, 2:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Logan | 30 min |
| Aug 22, 2:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Putnam | 26 min |
| Aug 22, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pleasants, Wood | 34 min |
| Aug 22, 3:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Putnam | 23 min |
| Aug 22, 3:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Putnam | 33 min |
| Aug 22, 3:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Boone | 30 min |
| Aug 22, 3:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Pleasants, Ritchie, Tyler, Wirt, Wood | 38 min |
| Aug 22, 4:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Doddridge, Pleasants, Ritchie, Tyler | 34 min |
| Aug 22, 4:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Doddridge, Harrison, Tyler | 33 min |
| Aug 22, 4:59 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pleasants, Ritchie, Tyler | 3 hr |
| Aug 22, 5:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Pocahontas | 29 min |
| Aug 22, 5:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Summers | 19 min |
| Aug 22, 5:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Pocahontas | 29 min |
| Aug 22, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson, Mason, Pleasants, Wood | 49 min |
| Aug 22, 6:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Pocahontas | 21 min |
| Aug 22, 6:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Wyoming | 31 min |
| Aug 22, 6:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer, Jackson, Pleasants, Ritchie and 4 more | 49 min |
| Aug 22, 6:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell, Wyoming | 17 min |
| Aug 22, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell, Wyoming | 19 min |
| Aug 22, 7:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison, Lewis and 3 more | 48 min |
| Aug 22, 1:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Athens, Morgan, Washington | 32 min |
| Aug 22, 4:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Perry | 31 min |
| Aug 22, 5:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Athens, Jackson, Vinton | 23 min |
| Aug 22, 5:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Athens, Meigs | 35 min |
| Aug 22, 5:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Athens, Gallia, Jackson, Meigs, Vinton | 29 min |
| Aug 22, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Gallia, Jackson, Vinton | 26 min |
| Aug 22, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Washington | 25 min |
| Aug 22, 6:25 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Athens, Jackson, Meigs, Vinton | 3 hr |
| Aug 22, 3:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Carter, Greenup | 32 min |
| Aug 22, 4:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Carter, Greenup | 33 min |
| Aug 22, 4:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Carter | 33 min |
| Aug 22, 5:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Carter | 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.