2,551 first-hand accounts of flood events in West Virginia, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Surface low pressure tracked across northern West Virginia on May 30th. Some instances of wind damage were noted, especially due to saturated ground and wind generally in the range of 30 to 40 MPH.
Read the full account →Surface low pressure tracked across northern West Virginia on May 30th. Some instances of wind damage were noted, especially due to saturated ground and wind generally in the range of 30 to 40 MPH.
Read the full account →Surface low pressure tracked across northern West Virginia on May 30th. Some instances of wind damage were noted, especially due to saturated ground and wind generally in the range of 30 to 40 MPH.
Read the full account →Surface low pressure tracked across northern West Virginia on May 30th. Some instances of wind damage were noted, especially due to saturated ground and wind generally in the range of 30 to 40 MPH.
Read the full account →A humid environment existed over West Virginia with surface dew points in the lower 70s. A weak steering flow existed. Several small clusters of slow moving showers and embedded thunderstorms formed over West Virginia on the 8th, well south of a cold front across northern…
Read the full account →Showers and thunderstorms drifted along a slow moving warm front which was draped across Southern West Virginia during the afternoon of the 12th. This resulted in a prolonged period of rain, with some pockets of heavier rain.
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 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 →A hot and humid day saw plenty of afternoon sunshine in the Charleston to Beckley region. Surface dew points were in the low and mid 70s. Thunderstorms from the north and east developed inward during the late afternoon, toward Charleston. This produced localized cloudbursts.
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 →Rains of 2 to 4.2 inches fell from 2200E on the 18th through 1600E on the 19th. A strong inflow of moist air from the southeast, helped enhance these rains.
Read the full account →Morning rains deposited a half inch to over an inch, before ending by midday. Some minor flooding occurred in southern West Virginia, plus combined with snow melt in Pocahontas County. Warmer air surged into the state during the afternoon.
Read the full account →Increasing moisture quickly moved up the Ohio River Valley on the morning of the 3rd into a developing east to west frontal zone. The first of several thunderstorm complexes moved from west to east into western West Virginia during the early afternoon on Tuesday, the 3rd.
Read the full account →In the muggy air out ahead of a cold front, showers and thunderstorms developed during the early afternoon over western West Virginia. These moved east and southeast into the early evening. In a few spots the lines of convection became parallel to the flow for a short time.
Read the full account →As a slow moving upper level low pressure system moved across West Virginia on the 5th, cold air filtered in aloft. Thunderstorms formed in the instability of the afternoon.
Read the full account →Showers and thunderstorms with heavy rain developed in the warm sector along the Mason-Dixon line in the afternoon on the 29th. These showers continued to train over parts of Marion, Monongalia, and Preston counties in West Virginia as well as Garrett County in Maryland.
Read the full account →The remnants of Sandy brought a variety of weather impacts to western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, northern West Virginia, and Garrett county Maryland as the storm made landfall and interacted with a cold front essentially right over the region.
Read the full account →Another major rain event occurred from late on the 9th into the evening hours of the 10th. Rain amounts of 1 to 2 inches were common. Including this episode, the accumulative affects of 5 significant rain events over the upper Ohio River Valley since February 21st, caused the…
Read the full account →An upper level disturbance moved across the region in advance of an approaching cold front. This system helped to generate showers and storms across the region. One area of showers and storms produced up to two inches of rain on average in a short period of time in Princeton.
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 →Passage of an upper trough and weak shear and wind flow supported the development of thunderstorms with heavy rain on Wednesday, May 11th. Thunderstorms passed over locations in Ohio and West Virginia that were trained over the day before, causing additional flooding and a small…
Read the full account →A cold front swept through the region on the 28th. Multiple clusters of storms accompanied the front as it progressed. One of these storms increased to severe levels over southeast West Virginia and produced large hail.
Read the full account →An east to west oriented cold front sagged south into eastern Ohio and northern West Virginia during the early evening on the 9th. Temperatures reached the upper 80s with dew points near 70. There was very little convection over northern West Virginia at 1900E.
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