Feb 5, 2010
A continuous rain on Friday the 5th became heavier in the evening over the southwestern counties of West Virginia. Twelve hour rains of over an inch caused minor stream flooding along roads across portions of Lincoln, Putnam, Cabell, Kanawha, Roane, Jackson, Mason, and Calhoun. The rain changed to sleet then wet snow overnight, or late on the 5th into the 6th. ||An exception was Pocahontas County, where the easterly low level flow kept the precipitation as mostly snow. At Snowshoe the sno
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 210165). 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.