2,551 first-hand accounts of flood events in West Virginia, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A strong area of low pressure tracking through the Ohio Valley caused multiple rounds of thunderstorms across the state of West Virginia on April 2nd and 3rd.
Read the full account →A stalled surface front that extended south from West Virginia into Western Virginia and North Carolina Piedmont served as the focus for convective development during the afternoon of September 25.
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 →Showers and thunderstorms developed along a warm front on the 24. The showers and storms produced very heavy rainfall with one to two inches of rain in a short time, which fell on already saturated soils resulting in flash flooding.
Read the full account →A powerful cold front and upper level trough pushed across the Upper Ohio Valley on July 10th producing widespread severe weather and flash flooding from eastern Ohio, northern West Virginia, and western Pennsylvania. This included 3 separate tornadoes.
Read the full account →During the afternoon of the 28th, near a stationary front, thunderstorms moved across southeast Kentucky. They continued into far western Virginia and finally into extreme southern West Virginia.
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 →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 →Rains of 1.5 to 3 inches caused flooding around Dudley Gap, Ona, Culloden, and Milton in Cabell County. The Milton Police reported some mobile homes had to be evacuated. About 40 families were affected by the high water in Cabell County.
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,…
Read the full account →The heavy rain fell during the late night hours, ahead of a warm front. The runoff drained into several different river basins, the West Fork, the Tygart Valley, the Little Kanawha, the Elk, and the Greenbrier. The Red Cross and the state, aided residents in flood recovery.
Read the full account →A mid and upper level low developed over West Virginia on the 12th, then drifted into southeast Ohio by that evening. This stopped the expected dry air intrusion along the Ohio Valley.
Read the full account →Convection dropped from northwestern Ohio during the late afternoon and reached into southeast Ohio during the evening hours of the 4th. This was south of an east to west cold front in northern Ohio. That front was sinking slowly south.
Read the full account →A band of heavy rain, about 30 miles wide, stretched from the Huntington vicinity on northeast, toward Spencer, Burnsville, and Buckhannon. The rain fell in about a 30 hour period from the predawn hours of the 19th to after dawn on the 20th.
Read the full account →A powerful cold front and upper level trough pushed across the Upper Ohio Valley on July 10th producing widespread severe weather and flash flooding from eastern Ohio, northern West Virginia, and western Pennsylvania. This included 3 separate tornadoes.
Read the full account →Slow moving convection during the early evening of the 19th dumped 1 to 2.5 inches of rain over a small area along the Dry Fork between Bradshaw and English. ||A weak mid level flow existed over a moist lower atmosphere.
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 moved north during the overnight hours, ahead of an approaching cold front. Just prior to the frontal passage, training of showers affected southern Wayne County on north through parts of Lincoln, Putnam and Jackson Counties from 0600E to 0900E on…
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 →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 →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 →A strong gradient in moisture and surface dew point existed along a nearly stationary front across southeastern Kentucky and the Virginia border with Tennessee. Afternoon convection formed just north of that boundary.
Read the full account →Predawn and morning thunderstorms came northeast fromthe Tri State region around Huntington, across centralWest Virginia, toward Elkins. The ground was alreadysaturated from previous rains.
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