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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV

March 23, 2026Upshur County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Mar 23, 2026, 2:16 AM EDT for Upshur County, West Virginia. It was in force for 29 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 23, 2026, 2:16 AM EDT (06:16 UTC)
Expired: Mar 23, 2026, 2:45 AM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 50

County Upshur County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 187 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1017 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 293 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Mar 23, 2:01 AM EDT, 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 23, 2:01 AM EDT, 15 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 23, 1:00 AM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Charleston WV
100 AM EDT Mon Mar 23 2026

OHZ075-076-085-WVZ007>011-016>020-230530-
Washington OH-Athens OH-Meigs OH-Doddridge WV-Roane WV-Wirt WV-
Wood WV-Calhoun WV-Jackson WV-Ritchie WV-Mason WV-Pleasants WV-
Tyler WV-
100 AM EDT Mon Mar 23 2026

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT EASTERN MEIGS...CENTRAL
WASHINGTON...SOUTHEASTERN ATHENS...NORTHWESTERN CALHOUN...WIRT...
NORTHWESTERN ROANE...JACKSON...WOOD...PLEASANTS...RITCHIE...NORTH
CENTRAL MASON...NORTHERN DODDRIDGE AND TYLER COUNTIES THROUGH 130 AM
EDT...

At 1259 AM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from 6 miles northeast of Marietta to Mason.
Movement was east at 60 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects.

Locations impacted include...
Parkersburg, Marietta, Belpre, Ripley, Harrisville, St. Marys,
Pomeroy, Elizabeth, Middlebourne, Racine, Coolville, Forked Run State
Park, Vienna, Ravenswood, Williamstown, New Haven, Pennsboro, Mason,
Belmont, and West Union.

This includes the following highways...
 Interstate 77 in West Virginia between mile markers 131 and 186.
 Interstate 77 in Ohio between mile markers 1 and 6.
 Route 50 in West Virginia between mile markers 1 and 55.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3956 8104 3954 8104 3955 8102 3953 8102
      3957 8096 3956 8081 3946 8069 3947 8065
      3943 8054 3903 8114 3867 8153 3894 8209
      3899 8208 3900 8214 3958 8131
TIME...MOT...LOC 0459Z 278DEG 52KT 3949 8136 3902 8206

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH

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Special weather statement, Mar 23, 1:16 AM EDT, 1 hour before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Charleston WV
116 AM EDT Mon Mar 23 2026

OHZ086-087-WVZ005>007-013-014-230545-
Gallia OH-Lawrence OH-Mason WV-Lincoln WV-Wayne WV-Cabell WV-
Putnam WV-
116 AM EDT Mon Mar 23 2026

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT GALLIA...LAWRENCE...MASON...
CABELL...WESTERN PUTNAM...NORTHWESTERN LINCOLN AND NORTHERN WAYNE
COUNTIES THROUGH 145 AM EDT...

At 115 AM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from near Rio Grande to Ceredo. Movement was east at
50 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects.

Locations impacted include...
Huntington, Ashland, Point Pleasant, Gallipolis, Winfield, Hamlin,
Rio Grande, Chesapeake, Proctorville, Beech Fork State Park,
Hurricane, Barboursville, Kenova, Milton, Eleanor, Ceredo, Buffalo,
Ona, Culloden, and Teays Valley.

This includes Interstate 64 in West Virginia between mile markers 1
and 39.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3885 8251 3885 8245 3902 8243 3887 8191
      3876 8182 3820 8201 3835 8260 3842 8259
      3846 8260 3848 8263
TIME...MOT...LOC 0515Z 288DEG 44KT 3893 8236 3842 8254

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH

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Special weather statement, Mar 23, 1:41 AM EDT, 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 23, 1:44 AM EDT, 32 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 23, 2:14 AM EDT, 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 23, 2:16 AM EDT, 0 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
Mar 23, 1:00 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Jackson, Pleasants, Ritchie, Tyler, Wirt, Wood	30 min
Mar 23, 1:16 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Cabell, Mason, Putnam	29 min
Mar 23, 1:41 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Braxton, Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison, Lewis and 1 more	34 min
Mar 23, 1:44 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln, Putnam, Roane	31 min
Mar 23, 2:14 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Clay, Kanawha	31 min
Mar 23, 2:47 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Nicholas, Webster	28 min
Mar 23, 2:53 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Lincoln, Wayne	37 min
Mar 23, 3:14 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Pocahontas	31 min
Mar 23, 3:20 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Boone, Lincoln	25 min
Mar 23, 4:09 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Fayette	36 min
Mar 22, 10:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Morgan, Perry	38 min
Mar 22, 11:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Athens, Morgan, Perry	42 min

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