If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.

At 413 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over Piney View, or near Beckley, moving northeast at 15 mph. HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and half inch 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... Beckley, Mount Hope, Bradley, Prosperity, Piney View, Stanaford, and Thurmond. This includes the following highways... West Virginia Turnpike near mile marker 47. Route 19 between mile markers 1 and 8.