Special Weather Statement
NWS Charleston WV ยท US
Details
Strong Thunderstorms Will Impact Northwestern Calhoun...Southern Ritchie...Wirt...Northwestern Roane...Northeastern Jackson And Central Wood Counties Through 645 AM EDT
- Event
- Special Weather Statement
- Issued
- Onset
- Message expires
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Expected
- Severity
- Moderate
- Certainty
- Observed
- Response
- Execute
Description
Overview
At 604 AM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along a line extending from 9 miles east of Parkersburg to near Mineralwells to near Sandyville. Movement was southeast at 30 mph.
Hazard
Wind gusts up to 40 mph.
Source
Radar indicated.
Impacts
Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Locations impacted include... Elizabeth, Mineralwells, Cairo, Reedy, Cherry, Peewee, Smithville, Walker, Petroleum, Palestine, Lucille, Freeport, Greencastle, Morristown, Big Springs, Davisville, Creston, Rockport, Brohard, and Macfarlan. This includes the following highways... Interstate 77 in West Virginia between mile markers 158 and 171. Route 50 in West Virginia between mile markers 13 and 24, and near mile marker 27.
Instructions
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. Torrential rainfall is also occurring with these storms and may lead to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
Affected areas
- Jackson County, WV
- Wood County, WV
- Roane County, WV
- Wirt County, WV
- Calhoun County, WV
- Ritchie County, WV
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Charleston WV
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~56s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M2SZKV91SVNEKXA3ME4QY191
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.660e071cf8ad39f5932fce35a1cd4a4e0fe933b7.001.1
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Scope
- Public
- CAP source
- 211803 v2.3.0
- Handling codes
- IPAWSv1.0
- Issuing office
- NWS Charleston WV
- AWIPS ID
- CAPRLX
- NWWS sequence
- nwws_processor.6956
- WMO heading
- XOUS51
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- United States (US)
- WMO bulletin number
- 51
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | SPS |
| NationalWeatherService | SPS |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | SPSRLX |
| WMOidentifier | WWUS81 KRLX 181004 |
| NWSheadline | STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT NORTHWESTERN CALHOUN...SOUTHERN RITCHIE...WIRT...NORTHWESTERN ROANE...NORTHEASTERN JACKSON AND CENTRAL WOOD COUNTIES THROUGH 645 AM EDT |
| eventMotionDescription | 2026-09-18T10:04:00-00:00...storm...308DEG...26KT...39.22,-81.38 39.11,-81.55 38.94,-81.57 |
| maxWindGust | 40 MPH |
| maxHailSize | 0.00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| EAS-ORG | WXR |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Jackson County, WV
- Wood County, WV
- Roane County, WV
- Wirt County, WV
- Calhoun County, WV
- Ritchie County, WV
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 054035 |
| SAME | 054107 |
| SAME | 054087 |
| SAME | 054105 |
| SAME | 054013 |
| SAME | 054085 |
| UGC | WVZ008 |
| UGC | WVZ009 |
| UGC | WVZ016 |
| UGC | WVZ017 |
| UGC | WVZ018 |
| UGC | WVZ019 |
- Polygons
- 39.09,-80.87 39.01,-81.02 39.01,-81.03 39.0,-81.03 38.91,-81.2 38.75,-81.22 38.94,-81.59 39.15,-81.61 39.3,-81.37 39.09,-80.87