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Flash Flood — Harrison, WV

Mar 14, 2016

After daytime heating with temperatures in the 70s, a well defined disturbance in the winds aloft caused thunderstorms to form in eastern Kentucky during the early afternoon. These storms moved northeast through West Virginia during the evening hours. Small pea size hail was common with wind gusts of 35 to 45 mph. Some nickel size hail fell over north central West Virginia.||The heaviest rain fell over southern Harrison County from Bristol and Clarksburg south toward Mt Clare and West Milford

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 614902). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

Flood Risk Context for Harrison, WV

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