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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, WV

August 22, 2026Carter County, Greenup County, Kentucky

NWS Charleston, WV issued this special weather statement at Aug 22, 2026, 4:12 PM EDT for Carter County, Greenup County, Kentucky. It was in force for 33 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: Aug 22, 2026, 4:12 PM EDT (20:12 UTC)
Expired: Aug 22, 2026, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Hail: 0.50 in
Wind: 50

Counties Carter County, KY, Greenup County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 326 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: 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

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The text

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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 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, 2:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Putnam	31 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, 4:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Carter	33 min
Aug 22, 5:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Carter	34 min
Aug 21, 9:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Dickenson	36 min
Aug 22, 3:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Buchanan	23 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.