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Flood — Pocahontas, WV

Mar 4, 2008

Another deepening low pressure system, during the winter of 2007-08, lifted northeast through West Virginia and the eastern Ohio Valley. Gusty showers and thunderstorms were associated with the wind shift in the wake of the storm center. Brief gusts of 40 to 50 mph were common across the western lowlands of West Virginia. A gust at the Clarksburg airport did reach 56 mph.||Rains of 2 to 2.5 inches were common along the eastern slopes of Pocahontas and eastern Randolph Counties in 12 to 24 hou

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 81099). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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