2,551 first-hand accounts of flood events in West Virginia, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A deep trough and associated surface low tracked into the Ohio Valley late on the 19th. A large shield of warm advection precipitation moved over the area late on the 19th into the early 20th.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms existed at dawn on the 8th in Indiana. With support for the mid and upper level winds, this mesoscale convective complex maintained its intensity through the morning. It raced southeast at 50 mph into western West Virginia during the afternoon.
Read the full account →In a northwest flow aloft, clusters of showers and thunderstorms formed during the evening hours on the 12th. Storms were along a weak front, and ahead of a weak low pressure system in southern Ohio.
Read the full account →Heavy rainfall developed across portions of the southern Appalachian mountains as clearing ahead of a slow-moving surface low over the Cumberland Gap allowed instabilities to rise into the 2000 J/Kg range along with good upper divergence.
Read the full account →A warm front lifted through during the morning of the 2nd. Only a few showers and storms were associated with the warm front. ||Rounds of showers and thunderstorms formed in the lower Ohio River Valley and moved quickly into western West Virginia during the evening of the 2nd.
Read the full account →Several days of dry weather allowed rivers and streams to recede before slow-moving low pressure over the Ohio valley lifted north within a broad upper level trough that was pushing into a building subtropical ridge off the southeast U.S. coast.
Read the full account →A wet period began early on the 4th as a complex series of disturbances lifted northeast through the Ohio Valley pushing a slow-moving cold front across the area.
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