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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 388, NWS Charleston, WV

September 5, 20267 counties in West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 5, 2026, 6:59 AM EDT for 7 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 46 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: Sep 5, 2026, 6:59 AM EDT (10:59 UTC)
Expired: Sep 5, 2026, 7:45 AM EDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Braxton County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Wirt County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:02 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 235 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: 1450 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -140 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1423 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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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 Sep 4, 7:29 PM EDT, 11 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 4, 7:29 PM EDT, 11 hours 30 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
Sep 5, 6:02 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Wood	28 min
Sep 5, 6:30 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Calhoun, Wirt	30 min
Sep 5, 6:54 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Calhoun, Gilmer, Wirt	36 min
Sep 5, 7:12 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Mason, Wood	33 min
Sep 5, 7:15 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Roane	45 min
Sep 5, 7:25 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Jackson	50 min
Sep 5, 7:30 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Wirt	30 min
Sep 5, 7:40 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Braxton, Lewis, Upshur	50 min
Sep 5, 7:58 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Putnam	47 min
Sep 5, 8:03 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Clay, Nicholas	42 min
Sep 5, 8:07 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Roane	38 min
Sep 5, 8:14 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Pocahontas, Randolph, Webster	46 min
Sep 5, 8:29 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Clay, Kanawha	46 min
Sep 5, 8:36 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Fayette, Nicholas	39 min
Sep 5, 8:40 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Boone	35 min
Sep 5, 8:43 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Nicholas, Pocahontas, Webster	47 min
Sep 5, 8:49 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boone, Fayette, Kanawha, Raleigh	41 min
Sep 5, 8:57 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Pocahontas	33 min
Sep 5, 9:38 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Fayette, Raleigh	37 min
Sep 5, 10:14 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	McDowell	61 min
Sep 5, 10:57 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	McDowell	33 min
Sep 5, 4:48 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Perry	27 min
Sep 5, 4:51 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Vinton	24 min
Sep 5, 5:10 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Perry	35 min
Sep 5, 5:15 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Vinton	30 min
Sep 5, 5:43 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Athens	32 min
Sep 5, 6:16 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Perry	29 min
Sep 5, 6:40 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Perry	35 min
Sep 5, 6:42 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Athens, Vinton	33 min
Sep 5, 6:47 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens, Meigs, Vinton, Washington	28 min
Sep 5, 4:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Rowan	37 min

Nearby

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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.