{"id":4845,"date":"2026-05-21T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T16:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/?p=4845"},"modified":"2026-05-22T12:44:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T16:44:29","slug":"severe-storms-roll-through-west-virginia-with-more-rain-to-come-emilys-weather-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/2026\/05\/21\/severe-storms-roll-through-west-virginia-with-more-rain-to-come-emilys-weather-corner\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe Storms Roll Through West Virginia with More Rain to Come | Emily’s Weather Corner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emily’s Weather Corner<\/strong><\/p>\n

Emily Grady<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday, May 21, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Severe storms rolled through central West Virginia on the\"\"<\/a> afternoon of May 20<\/span>, <\/span>2026, <\/span>dropping quarter sized hail and gusty winds<\/span>. <\/span><\/p>\n

The storms <\/span>came in <\/span>early<\/span> in comparison to when preliminary forecasts had placed them, garner<\/span>ing a severe thunderstorm watch from the Storm Prediction Center, <\/span>who<\/span> had previously placed the a<\/span>rea under a slight risk for severe storms in the daily outloo<\/span>k ea<\/span>rlier in the day. <\/span>The earliness of the storms <\/span>was in<\/span> tandem with the dismissals of schools and some workplaces. <\/span>The most severe cells <\/span>tracked through Ca<\/span>bell, southern <\/span>Putnam<\/span>, Kanawha, and <\/span>Clay<\/span> counties, before weakening. <\/span><\/p>\n

The<\/span> storms came through in waves, one after the other, across roughly the same paths. T<\/span>he first of the cells even <\/span>strengthen<\/span>ed<\/span> to <\/span>warra<\/span>nt<\/span> a tornado warning shortly after crossing into <\/span>Kanawha County<\/span> a<\/span>fter becoming an \u2018elevated supercell\u2019, or a t<\/span>ype of strong, rotating thunderstorm that<\/span> sits on top of stable surface air, feeding off of that <\/span>air rather than warm air from the ground.<\/span> It is unconfirmed if a tornado <\/span>was produced<\/span> from the storm at this time. <\/span>Storm <\/span>damages <\/span>reported to the National Weather Service<\/span>, however, <\/span>were minimal<\/span>, wit<\/span>h the only reports being trees down on power li<\/span>nes\u2014 specifically, one in Poca, which blocked a school bus from <\/span>getting to its route. However, there were several reports<\/span> within the tracks of these <\/span>storms of hail ranging from qua<\/span>rter to half-dollar sizes. <\/span>No damage to vehicles was reported.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Rain continues <\/span>through much of the area for the <\/span>rest<\/span> of the week<\/span> into next week, with thunderstorm chances returning for this weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n

T<\/span>he forecast for the rest of the week places today wit<\/span>h a high of 60 and low of 56, Friday with a high of 68 and low of 60<\/span>,<\/span> Saturday<\/span> with a high of 75, low of 61<\/span>, and Sunday with a high of 79, low of 62. <\/span><\/p>\n

For more information or to report further storm damage, please visit <\/span>https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/rlx<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Emily’s Weather Corner Emily Grady Thursday, May 21, 2026 Severe storms rolled through central West Virginia on the afternoon of May 20, 2026, dropping quarter sized hail and gusty winds. The storms came in early in comparison to when preliminary forecasts had placed them, garnering a severe thunderstorm watch from the Storm Prediction Center, who<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1052,"featured_media":4847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192,1746,4],"tags":[1252,1750,1751,1748,1749,1747],"class_list":["post-4845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-emilys-weather-corner","category-wmul-news","tag-charleston-wv","tag-cwv","tag-kanawha-county","tag-severe-weather","tag-storms","tag-weather"],"acf":[],"fimg_url":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/files\/IMG_2244-scaled.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1052"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4849,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4845\/revisions\/4849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}