Aug 5, 2022
Hot and muggy conditions were in place on the afternoon of August 5th as a disturbance entered into the lower Ohio Valley. Showers and strong thunderstorms thrived on this day, moving in a northeast fashion from Central West Virginia up into the mountains. ||A 64 mile per hour wind gust was measured at the Charleston airport early that evening as a strong storm passed overhead. This same storm dumped a decent amount of rain in a short amount of time, which resulted in flooding downtown. As conve
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 1044709). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Kanawha County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.