Weather Alerts For Harrisville, WV

A Weather Alert has been issued for a nearby area. While your current location is outside of the impacted area, please stay alert and monitor weather conditions. # HEADLINE -------------------- STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT EAST CENTRAL WASHINGTON, PLEASANTS, NORTHERN RITCHIE, WEST CENTRAL DODDRIDGE AND TYLER COUNTIES THROUGH 130 PM EDT # SUMMARY -------------------- At 103 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along a line extending from near Sistersville to near St. Marys. Movement was east at 15 mph. # DETAILS -------------------- HAZARD Wind gusts up to 40 mph and pea size hail. SOURCE Radar indicated. IMPACT Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE - St. Marys, Middlebourne, Paden City, Sistersville, Pennsboro, Matamoras, Ellenboro, Friendly, Fly, Alma, Greenwood, Maxwell, Arvilla, Point Lookout, New Matamoras, Wick, Mountain, Hebron, Pike, and Highland. - This includes Route 50 in West Virginia between mile markers 32 and 50. ISSUED AT Sunday, July 5, 2026 at 1:03 PM EDT ISSUED BY National Weather Service Charleston WV HEADER Special Weather Statement # PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS -------------------- 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. Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with these storms. Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe shelter inside a building or vehicle. These storms may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio stations and available television stations for additional information and possible warnings from the National Weather Service. # AREAS AFFECTED -------------------- Doddridge WV, Pleasants WV, Ritchie WV, Tyler WV, Washington OH

Closest strike: 2.68 miles Stay Alert! Remain in a safe area until there has been no lightning within 10 miles of this location for 30 minutes. Please be aware that lightning activity can remain high even when a storm is moving away from your location. Even if rain has stopped, do not leave your safe area until WeatherBug indicates that lightning is more than 10 miles away from this selected location. IF OUTDOORS Avoid water, high ground, and open spaces. Avoid all metal objects including electric wires, fences, and machinery. Find a safe area in a building or in a fully enclosed vehicle with the windows completely shut. Unsafe places include underneath canopies, small picnic or rain shelters, convertibles, or near trees. IF INDOORS Avoid water and stay away from doors and windows. Avoid using a hard line telephone. Take off headphones. Turn off, unplug, and stay away from appliances, computers, power tools, and TV sets. Lightning may strike exterior electric and phone lines, inducing shocks to inside equipment.

There is a Marginal Severe Storm Risk for your location. Continue reading for today's outlook from the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center. -------------------- National Severe Storm Outlook THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF THE MID-ATLANTIC...NORTHERN NORTH DAKOTA...AND NORTHWEST/WEST TEXAS SUMMARY Scattered wind damage is possible with thunderstorms across the Mid-Atlantic this afternoon and evening. Large hail and damaging gusts may occur with thunderstorms in North Dakota and west/northwest Texas. Mid Atlantic Scattered thunderstorms are expected once again today from parts of eastern OH/WV into PA and the Mid-Atlantic region. The overall thermodynamic environment has weakened considerably compared to yesterday, with CAPE, low-level lapse rates, and heating showing parameters only marginally favorable for damaging winds. Nevertheless, parts of northern VA into eastern PA and NJ will see strong heating all day with storms moving in during the early evening. This will help to maximize low-level conditions favorable for gusty/damaging winds later today. Therefore will maintain ongoing SLGT risk area. Gulf coast states to Carolinas Hot and humid conditions will prevail over much of the southeast today, with dewpoints in the 70s and pockets of moderate CAPE. Scattered slow-moving thunderstorms will occur across this region with locally damaging winds possible in the strongest storms. TX Full sunshine is noted over TX today, with dewpoints near 70F and the potential for afternoon MLCAPE exceeding 3000 J/kg. All CAM solutions indicate thunderstorm development this afternoon along the remnant outflow from overnight convection, extending from the southern TX Panhandle into north-central TX. Initial storms may be supercellular with large hail and damaging winds possible. Storms are expected to congeal through the evening and sag southward, with a continued risk of damaging winds. Northern ND A cold front will move across northeast MT today, with a diffuse surface dryline along the MT/ND border. Widely scattered thunderstorms are expected to develop during the late afternoon. Shear profiles will be sufficient for supercell structures capable of large hail and damaging winds. A tornado or two cannot be ruled out. MT Scattered afternoon high-based thunderstorms are expected to develop over the mountains of southwest MT and spread east-northeastward. Inverted-v profiles and moderately strong winds aloft will pose a risk of damaging wind gusts in a few of these storms.