2,551 first-hand accounts of flood events in West Virginia, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
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 →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 →Steady rain began during the morning on the 10th. The rain was associated with a warm front. The rain increased during the late afternoon and evening hours over north central counties. Rainfall totals were beginning to exceed an inch.
Read the full account →Steady rain began during the morning on the 10th. The rain was associated with a warm front. The rain increased during the late afternoon and evening hours over north central counties. Rainfall totals were beginning to exceed an inch.
Read the full account →A cold front sank slowly southeast on the 9th. Widespread rain showers were along and south of the front during the predawn and morning hours. The area of showers was oriented west to east, along the mean flow. Rains of 1.5 to 2.2 inches fell in about 12 hours.
Read the full account →A cold front sank slowly southeast on the 9th. Widespread rain showers were along and south of the front during the predawn and morning hours. The area of showers was oriented west to east, along the mean flow. Rains of 1.5 to 2.2 inches fell in about 12 hours.
Read the full account →Following several days of showers and thunderstorms, a final upper level disturbance crossed on the 31st bringing another round of showers and storms. A couple of the storms produced hail.
Read the full account →A potent squall line developed during the early afternoon across central Ohio, on southwest to central Kentucky. This was along a prefrontal surface boundary, and well out ahead of a strong cold front.
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 →On the 23rd a surface boundary was stalled across southern West Virginia. It slowly moved north as a warm front on the 24th and 25th as a surface low crossed the region. This low then pushed a cold front through on the 26th and 27th.
Read the full account →Repetitive showers and thunderstorms, moved southeast through southeast Ohio and into portions of northeast Kentucky, and western West Virginia between 1500E and 1900E on Tuesday, the 10th. ||This convection was just northeast of a warm front.
Read the full account →Repetitive showers and thunderstorms, moved southeast through southeast Ohio and into portions of northeast Kentucky, and western West Virginia between 1500E and 1900E on Tuesday, the 10th. ||This convection was just northeast of a warm front.
Read the full account →A strong cold front moved across the West Virginia during the afternoon and evening of March 1. Strong storms had developed near this cold front well to the west the day before, and raced through the middle Ohio River Valley through the morning on the 1st as a severe squall line…
Read the full account →A strong cold front moved across the West Virginia during the afternoon and evening of March 1. Strong storms had developed near this cold front well to the west the day before, and raced through the middle Ohio River Valley through the morning on the 1st as a severe squall line…
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Cindy made landfall in southwestern Louisiana on the 22nd. The storm weakened after making landfall and became post tropical as it moved through the Mississippi and lower Ohio River Valleys into the 23rd.
Read the full account →A cold front, with a low pressure system moving along it, crossed the middle Ohio River Valley on the 28th. A mid level disturbance also crossed during the afternoon.
Read the full account →A cold front, with a low pressure system moving along it, crossed the middle Ohio River Valley on the 28th. A mid level disturbance also crossed during the afternoon.
Read the full account →A cold front, with a low pressure system moving along it, crossed the middle Ohio River Valley on the 28th. A mid level disturbance also crossed during the afternoon.
Read the full account →Several days with rounds of showers and thunderstorms continued on Friday the 22nd. The area was in the active storm track, in the northwest flow aloft, from the Midwest into the central Appalachians.||Clusters showers and thunderstorms formed during the late afternoon hours…
Read the full account →Record heat over the mountainous counties helped form convection in a moist environment during the early afternoon. Cells were slow moving. New clusters of convection continued to form during the late afternoon into the evening hours on the periphery of earlier convection.
Read the full account →After some morning rain showers, scattered thunderstorms formed in eastern and southern Ohio during the mid afternoon hours on the 3rd, ahead of a cold front.
Read the full account →A warm front surged north during the morning of Friday the 18th, dropping a half inch to an inch of rain. Meanwhile, low pressure extended from southern Ohio on down the entire length of the Ohio River during that afternoon.
Read the full account →A warm front surged north during the morning of Friday the 18th, dropping a half inch to an inch of rain. Meanwhile, low pressure extended from southern Ohio on down the entire length of the Ohio River during that afternoon.
Read the full account →This was the initial event that prompted a federal disaster declaration. See FEMA disaster number 1522 for details. Subsequent flooding occurred elsewhere on the 30th and 31st, then again in June, adding to this disaster.Besides the flash flooding in Braxton, Mason, Putnam,…
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