A pretty active day across Southern West Virginia, the Flash Flood Watch is still in effect until 8 AM Monday, and at the time of writing this, Flash Flood Warnings are still in effect for Nicholas and Fayette Counties. We have more storm potential tonight that we are continuing to track, but this isn’t the last of the rain.
As we head into Monday, the flash flood and severe weather threat exists yet again for parts of our area. With the flash flooding threat: A Slight Risk of Excessive Rainfall encompasses the area shaded in yellow, which is where we could expect more storms and flooding through the day tomorrow.
As we take a look at the severe weather threat, it’s low. A Marginal Risk of severe weather encompasses the area shaded in dark green. Damaging winds up to 60 MPH will be the secondary threat with any of those storms on Monday, with flooding remaining the main threat with how saturated our ground currently is.
Here is a look at the future cast from one model that shows a line of storms knocking on our doorsteps, mainly from Tazewell to Fayette County. With this storm elongated in a linear shape, the threat for damaging winds will be the main concern outside of flooding. Any heavy rain that falls on Monday will not be able to soak into the ground much at all and will lead to pure runoff, which would lead to continued flooding issues. The European model shows nearly 2 inches of rain again for parts of Nicholas and Fayette Counties. Then again, whoever ends up under heavy rain and has experienced recent heavy rain would be most susceptable to the flood threat and pockets of heavy rain could be higher than modeled.
Here’s a look at the full 7 day forecast. After Monday we do get a little break on Tuesday and Wednesday before the chance of rain returns again Thursday-Saturday. Sunday is also currently appearing to be drier than we have been the past week. We are going to continue to track Monday and the rest of the rain next week to see if any impacts would be noted in our area.
