{"id":5247,"date":"2026-08-21T12:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T16:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/?p=5247"},"modified":"2026-08-21T12:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T16:27:13","slug":"repeated-rounds-of-rain-and-storms-wreak-havoc-across-west-virginia-emilys-weather-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/2026\/08\/21\/repeated-rounds-of-rain-and-storms-wreak-havoc-across-west-virginia-emilys-weather-corner\/","title":{"rendered":"Repeated Rounds of Rain and Storms Wreak Havoc Across West Virginia | Emily’s Weather Corner"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Thursday, August 20, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Within the past couple\u00a0months, the mountain state has seen it all\u2014massive shelf clouds, magnificent light shows, tornado warnings, severe thunderstorm warnings, but\u00a0above all else, absolute bucketloads of rain in each round.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Several places\u00a0had flooded\u00a0last month\u00a0from the storms that ran through on\u00a0July 21,\u00a0and\u00a0are still picking up.\u00a0Furthermore, the most recent round hit at the absolute worst time\u2014 Marshall University\u00a0move\u00a0in day. As students nervously scooted their belongings into dorm rooms, an ominous shelf followed by torrential rain and frequent lightning terrorized the city of Huntington.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So, why are these repeated rounds of rain so rough for the\u00a0state?\u00a0\u00a0Simply put, the ground has seen enough rain, and is oversaturated, meaning it has hit its absolute limit on holding water and any more runs off into streams, creeks, lakes, etc. This includes the low areas of the campus sidewalks of Marshall. This sudden runoff is made worse if the rain is torrential, pouring down so fast and violently that it has no time to soak into the ground, even if it could.\u00a0This leads to life-threatening flash flooding, exactly like the state has seen over these multiple rounds of storms. This flooding and rainfall\u00a0has\u00a0been so bad that, on August 18, West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey issued a State of Emergency for all 55 counties, citing the severe weather.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But is it over? Not quite. Recently, only small showers have moved in and out of the area, with mostly sun in between. However, the State of Emergency is unfortunately still in effect, and more rain and thunderstorms may return this Saturday, August 22. As of current, NOAA\u2019s Storm Prediction Center has the area under a Marginal Risk of severe storms. This is a 2 out of 5 risk on the SPC\u2019s scale, but seeing as it is a bit far out, this is subject to change. Please always follow your desired source of information, as unfortunately, it doesn\u2019t look like the flooding risk is quite over yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Emily Grady Thursday, August 20, 2026 Within the past couple\u00a0months, the mountain state has seen it all\u2014massive shelf clouds, magnificent light shows, tornado warnings, severe thunderstorm warnings, but\u00a0above all else, absolute bucketloads of rain in each round.\u00a0\u00a0 Several places\u00a0had flooded\u00a0last month\u00a0from the storms that ran through on\u00a0July 21,\u00a0and\u00a0are still picking up.\u00a0Furthermore, the most recent round<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1052,"featured_media":5249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192,1746,4],"tags":[1252,1750,1846,1847,1751,28,1848,1844,1748,1845,1749,1747],"class_list":["post-5247","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-emily-grady","tag-emilys-weather-corner","tag-kanawha-county","tag-marshall-university","tag-noaa","tag-patrick-morrisey","tag-severe-weather","tag-state-of-emergency","tag-storms","tag-weather"],"acf":[],"fimg_url":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/files\/shelf-cloud.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5247","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=5247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5250,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5247\/revisions\/5250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}