2,551 first-hand accounts of flood events in West Virginia, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
In the humidity of a waning heat wave, clusters of showers and thunderstorms starting forming by midday in West Virginia on the 19th.||Their outflow boundaries, along with differential heating and a mid level disturbance, helped develop other areas of showers and thunderstorm…
Read the full account →In a muggy late summer air mass, several clusters of showers and thunderstorms moved through southern West Virginia from midday into the evening. Downpours were the main result. The heaviest cells were producing .5 to .75 inches of rain in 15 minutes.
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 →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 →Thunderstorms formed during the afternoon in a warm and moist environment on the 27th. Brief downpours and lightning were the main result, but some large hail did occur.||As a front across northern Ohio and western Pennsylvania tried to sink south, more rounds of showers and…
Read the full account →Thunderstorms formed during the afternoon in a warm and moist environment on the 27th. Brief downpours and lightning were the main result, but some large hail did occur.||As a front across northern Ohio and western Pennsylvania tried to sink south, more rounds of showers and…
Read the full account →A nearly stationary boundary ran from Kentucky east into southern West Virginia on the 8th into the 9th. Warm and muggy air was south of the front, while drier air was to the north and northeast.
Read the full account →Ahead of a slow moving mid level trough in the Missouri, warm and humid air returned to northeast Kentucky on the 10th. Sunshine helped temperatures reach into the mid 80s during the afternoon.
Read the full account →Well ahead of a strong cold front in Indiana, one cluster of thunderstorms moved southeast through Ohio during the afternoon, reaching northern West Virginia during the evening hours.
Read the full account →On Tuesday the 19th, a strong east to west front stretched from north central West Virginia on across extreme southern Ohio near the Ohio River.||Rounds of showers and thunderstorms moved into southeast Ohio around 0200E, reaching into the northern half of West Virginia by dawn…
Read the full account →The ground was wetter than normal from around an inch of rain that occurred on the 15th into the 16th. Periods of rain started to fall again on Sunday the 20th. A front then sank south on Monday the 21st and became nearly stationary just south of Huntington and Charleston.
Read the full account →The ground was wetter than normal from around an inch of rain that occurred on the 15th into the 16th. Periods of rain started to fall again on Sunday the 20th. A front then sank south on Monday the 21st and became nearly stationary just south of Huntington and Charleston.
Read the full account →The ground was wetter than normal from around an inch of rain that occurred on the 15th into the 16th. Periods of rain started to fall again on Sunday the 20th. A front then sank south on Monday the 21st and became nearly stationary just south of Huntington and Charleston.
Read the full account →Cottages and bridges were damaged or destroyed in the RedCreek basin along the Tucker County line. Twelve to 15residences near the junction of Red Creek and the Dry Forkwere damaged. Rainfall of around 4 inches was likely in a12 hour period from the remnants of Hurricane Fran.
Read the full account →A strong upper level system combined with a lot of low level moisture led to a period of heavy rainfall on the 15th into the 16th. Widespread rainfall amounts of 2 to 3 inches fell in 24 to 36 hours from north central West Virginia into the mountainous counties.
Read the full account →A strong upper level system combined with a lot of low level moisture led to a period of heavy rainfall on the 15th into the 16th. Widespread rainfall amounts of 2 to 3 inches fell in 24 to 36 hours from north central West Virginia into the mountainous counties.
Read the full account →Two rounds of early morning thunderstorms caused 1 to 4 inches of rain. There were 3 maximum rain areas. One was in the region within a West Union to Clarksburg to Weston triangle.
Read the full account →Three consecutive nights of thunderstorms left western and northern counties with wind damage and flooding. The first night was from Friday evening, the 26th, into early Saturday morning, the 27th.
Read the full account →Three consecutive nights of thunderstorms left western and northern counties with wind damage and flooding. The first night was from Friday evening, the 26th, into early Saturday morning, the 27th.
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 →Thunderstorm rains during the afternoon and evening of the 29th produced flash flooding.Heavy thunderstorm rain caused streams and creeks to flood, closing some roads in Greenbrier County. Severe flash flooding in Hines resulted in damage to 5 homes and necessitated evacuations.
Read the full account →Moderate to heavy rainfall late on the 18th and on the 19th resulted in widespread significant flash flooding and small stream flooding.In Mercer County, there was significant flooding across the county, as many creeks and smaller rivers flooded.
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