Severe Thunderstorm Warning
NWS Charleston WV ยท US
Details
Severe Thunderstorm Warning Issued September 21 At 4:01PM EDT Until September 21 At 4:30PM EDT By NWS Charleston WV
- Event
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning
- Issued
- Onset
- Message expires
- Expected end
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Immediate
- Severity
- Severe
- Certainty
- Observed
- Response
- Shelter
Description
Overview
SVRRLX The National Weather Service in Charleston West Virginia has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Eastern Buchanan County in southwestern Virginia... South central McDowell County in southern West Virginia... * Until 430 PM EDT. * At 401 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near War, or 11 miles north of Cedar Bluff, moving southeast at 25 mph.
Hazard
60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
Source
Radar indicated.
Impacts
Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted
War and Cucumber.
Instructions
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
Affected areas
- Buchanan County, VA
- McDowell County, WV
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Charleston WV
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~58s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M32RZ6WDJ1MXJS97G7WB1F66
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.92f9d86c222d616bc71afa6f0e82eae5d08cc1b9.001.1
- 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.3476
- 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 | SVR |
| NationalWeatherService | SVW |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | SVRRLX |
| WMOidentifier | WUUS51 KRLX 212001 |
| eventMotionDescription | 2026-09-21T20:01:00-00:00...storm...295DEG...21KT...37.25,-81.72 |
| windThreat | RADAR INDICATED |
| maxWindGust | 60 MPH |
| hailThreat | RADAR INDICATED |
| maxHailSize | 1.00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| EAS-ORG | WXR |
| VTEC | /O.NEW.KRLX.SV.W.0420.260921T2001Z-260921T2030Z/ |
| eventEndingTime | 2026-09-21T16:30:00-04:00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Buchanan County, VA
- McDowell County, WV
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 051027 |
| SAME | 054047 |
| UGC | VAC027 |
| UGC | WVC047 |
- Polygons
- 37.22,-81.81 37.31,-81.78 37.28,-81.48 37.23,-81.52 37.21,-81.56 37.2,-81.68 37.24,-81.72 37.24,-81.74 37.23,-81.74 37.2,-81.76 37.2,-81.78 37.22,-81.81