Jul 11, 2015
Showers and thunderstorms intensified along and east to west front in central West Virginia during the late morning hours. Downpours were most common across extreme southern Roane County and into Clay County during the late morning. The heaviest rain was concentrated over the Big Sandy Creek drainage. An automatic rain gauge on Laurel Ridge in Clay County measured 1.28 inches in an hour. ||A cluster of fast moving thunderstorms moved east across northern Kentucky during the late morning reach
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 577492). 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.