CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The National Weather Service has issued a wind advisory for parts of West Virginia in connection with what will be the remnants of Hurricane Isaias.
The advisory goes from 5 p.m. Saturday to 11 a.m. Sunday in an area stretching from Welch to Elkins.
NWS said residents can expect “southeast winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 50 mph along with isolated gusts to 60 mph possible along the highest ridgelines and favored terrain for downslope winds.”
The counties included in the advisory include McDowell, Wyoming, Raleigh, Fayette, Nicholas, Webster, Pocahontas and Randolph counties.
MetroNews Meteorologist Bryan Hughes said it’s also possible there could be tornado warnings for that area.
“We could have some of those spawn and they’re going to be very, very small,” he said. “Usually these last 60 to 90 seconds, maybe up to 2 to 3 minutes and that’s about it.”
West Virginia will also get rain from what’s left of Isaias, Hughes said.
“It’s going to be as we get into the nighttime hours (Saturday), when the sun goes down that’s when the rain starts to increase from the west and southwest,” Hughes said. “By Sunday morning earlier we’re going to have storms, some of them heavy.”
Hughes said Isaias will be a tropical depression on Sunday and be as close as Grayson, Kentucky.
West Virginia should be able to handle the rain that the storm will dish out, Hughes said.
“By being dry for the past two to three weeks, that’s allowed us to be able to take some of the water that’s coming at us, but still, we could have some flash flooding in some areas,” Hughes said.
It looks like the WVU football game with Arizona that kicks at noon Saturday in Morgantown will be dry but Marshall fans should bring their rain ponchos for the Herd’s 7 p.m. Saturday kickoff against Coastal Carolina in Huntington.