2,551 first-hand accounts of flood events in West Virginia, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A warm front lifted north through West Virginia on the 3rd with a half inch to an inch of rain over the central mountain counties. Less rain fell elsewhere. Late afternoon and evening temperatures rose into the 50s and lower 60s over the lowlands.
Read the full account →A warm front lifted north through West Virginia on the 3rd with a half inch to an inch of rain over the central mountain counties. Less rain fell elsewhere. Late afternoon and evening temperatures rose into the 50s and lower 60s over the lowlands.
Read the full account →A warm front lifted north through West Virginia on the 3rd with a half inch to an inch of rain over the central mountain counties. Less rain fell elsewhere. Late afternoon and evening temperatures rose into the 50s and lower 60s over the lowlands.
Read the full account →A warm front lifted north through West Virginia on the 3rd with a half inch to an inch of rain over the central mountain counties. Less rain fell elsewhere. Late afternoon and evening temperatures rose into the 50s and lower 60s over the lowlands.
Read the full account →A warm front lifted north through West Virginia on the 3rd with a half inch to an inch of rain over the central mountain counties. Less rain fell elsewhere. Late afternoon and evening temperatures rose into the 50s and lower 60s over the lowlands.
Read the full account →A weak disturbance passed through West Virginia on July 4th, resulting in showers and isolated thunderstorms. Moderate to heavy rainfall, combined with back building of storms, caused flash flooding in Calhoun and Roane Counties during the evening.
Read the full account →A mesoscale convection system rode east and northeast out of Kentucky during Christmas morning. Support for the rain was aided by a stalled out front in southern West Virginia, just south of Charleston, on into southeast Kentucky. Abundant moisture was available.
Read the full account →An upper level disturbance perusing through the middle Ohio Valley inflicted rounds of showers and thunderstorms across West Virginia on the afternoon of the 14th.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms during the morning of the 8th produced damaging winds and flash flooding.Persistent heavy rain from thunderstorms produced major flash flooding across the south portion of Mercer County from the morning of the 8th through the early morning of the 9th.
Read the full account →This episode, on the 8th of July, saw fast moving thunderstorms form along a north/south warm frontal boundary. This boundary marked the division between the dry and less humid air to the east, from the incoming steamy moist air, to the west.
Read the full account →Multiple rounds of convection resulted in wind damage and flooding. Flash flooding on small streams turned into river flooding. A historic and record setting flood occurred along portions of the Elk and Gauley Rivers in central West Virginia.
Read the full account →A cold front pushed southward into West Virginia and stalled nearby during the early morning hours on the 30th. Thunderstorms progressing through the area resulted in one to two inches of rainfall, leading to flash flooding across northeast West Virginia.
Read the full account →An upper level disturbance moved into the Ohio Valley on August 25th, accompanied by a line of showers and thunderstorms that afternoon and evening. This line produced a severe storm in McDowell County which resulted in a few trees to be blown down.
Read the full account →Showers and thunderstorms developed on the afternoon and evening of June 27th in an environment primed for flooding due to storms capable of producing heavy rainfall and multiple rounds of storms passing overhead.
Read the full account →Waves of rain, heavy at times, moved across the region during the afternoon of February 26th through the morning of March 1st. Creeks and streams rose out of their banks by the final day of February, resulting in flooded roadways across West Virginia.
Read the full account →Waves of rain, heavy at times, moved across the region during the afternoon of February 26th through the morning of March 1st. Creeks and streams rose out of their banks by the final day of February, resulting in flooded roadways across West Virginia.
Read the full account →Low pressure traversing through the Tennessee Valley resulted in showers and storms, some producing torrential rainfall, on the evening of the 22nd.
Read the full account →Low pressure traversing through the Tennessee Valley resulted in showers and storms, some producing torrential rainfall, on the evening of the 22nd.
Read the full account →Flooding from the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers met nearly simultaneously at the Point in Pittsburgh. The flood waters then flowed down the Ohio River.
Read the full account →As the calendar was flipped from April to May, widespread showers occurred during the overnight hours. The showers were heaviest in the southern coal field counties of West Virginia. Rain amounts of 1.5 to 2.25 inches occurred by 0800E.
Read the full account →Multiple rounds of convection resulted in wind damage and flooding. Flash flooding on small streams turned into river flooding. A historic and record setting flood occurred along portions of the Elk and Gauley Rivers in central West Virginia.
Read the full account →Rains from Friday afternoon, the 14th, into Sunday the 16th were on the order of 3.5 to 4.9 inches, with the maximum over Wayne and Lincoln Counties. Small streams flooded onto roads Saturday evening, the 15th, into early Sunday, the 16th.
Read the full account →Rain showers began during the warm afternoon on the 5th, ahead of an approaching cold front. In the wake of the frontal passage during that evening. the showers transformed into periods of rain.
Read the full account →Short lines of showers and thunderstorms formed in the humid air during the afternoon. This was well ahead of a cold front in northwest Ohio to southern portions of Indiana and Illinois. ||The front sank south into southern Ohio early on the 8th.
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