South Charleston, WV Weather Forecast
Kanawha County, West Virginia
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for South Charleston, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
Sunrise and sunset
Next five days, scored 0 to 100The first day or two use the HRRR and NBM cloud layers. Later days only have total cloud, so treat them as a rough guide.
Know when sunset at this place will be worth a photo
We score every sunrise and sunset here from the cloud, haze and smoke forecast, and let you know when one is likely to light up. Sunrise the evening before, sunset a few hours ahead.
Seven-day outlook
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South Charleston, WV at a glance
South Charleston is home to about 13,281 people in Kanawha County, across 9.8 square miles. It ranks 11th by population of 48 places in West Virginia with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Dunbar, 2 miles away.
- County
- Kanawha County
- Population
- 13,281 2023 est.
- Land area
- 9.8 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,361
- Forecast point
- 38.3408°N, 81.7108°W
How well can the network see South Charleston?
The nearest Doppler radar is KRLX (Charleston, WV), to the SSW. Its lowest scan passes about 100 ft above South Charleston. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over South Charleston show up clearly. South Charleston is closer to its radar than 99% of US cities.
The closest weather station is KCRW (Charleston/Yeager Arpt). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near South Charleston
- Dunbar, WV2 mi
- Charleston, WV4 mi
- St. Albans, WV6 mi
- Nitro, WV7 mi
- Hurricane, WV18 mi
- Madison, WV20 mi
- Milton, WV25 mi
- Barboursville, WV32 mi
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