2,551 first-hand accounts of flood events in West Virginia, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Morning showers congealed into a cluster of thunderstorms along the Mason Dixon line in the early afternoon hours. A very moisture rich environment with mid 70s dew points, highly anomalous PWAT values up to 2.3, and 3000 J/kg MUCAPE resulted in flash flooding.
Read the full account →Morning showers congealed into a cluster of thunderstorms along the Mason Dixon line in the early afternoon hours. A very moisture rich environment with mid 70s dew points, highly anomalous PWAT values up to 2.3, and 3000 J/kg MUCAPE resulted in flash flooding.
Read the full account →Morning showers congealed into a cluster of thunderstorms along the Mason Dixon line in the early afternoon hours. A very moisture rich environment with mid 70s dew points, highly anomalous PWAT values up to 2.3, and 3000 J/kg MUCAPE resulted in flash flooding.
Read the full account →Morning showers congealed into a cluster of thunderstorms along the Mason Dixon line in the early afternoon hours. A very moisture rich environment with mid 70s dew points, highly anomalous PWAT values up to 2.3, and 3000 J/kg MUCAPE resulted in flash flooding.
Read the full account →Morning showers congealed into a cluster of thunderstorms along the Mason Dixon line in the early afternoon hours. A very moisture rich environment with mid 70s dew points, highly anomalous PWAT values up to 2.3, and 3000 J/kg MUCAPE resulted in flash flooding.
Read the full account →Morning showers congealed into a cluster of thunderstorms along the Mason Dixon line in the early afternoon hours. A very moisture rich environment with mid 70s dew points, highly anomalous PWAT values up to 2.3, and 3000 J/kg MUCAPE resulted in flash flooding.
Read the full account →Morning showers congealed into a cluster of thunderstorms along the Mason Dixon line in the early afternoon hours. A very moisture rich environment with mid 70s dew points, highly anomalous PWAT values up to 2.3, and 3000 J/kg MUCAPE resulted in flash flooding.
Read the full account →Morning showers congealed into a cluster of thunderstorms along the Mason Dixon line in the early afternoon hours. A very moisture rich environment with mid 70s dew points, highly anomalous PWAT values up to 2.3, and 3000 J/kg MUCAPE resulted in flash flooding.
Read the full account →Morning showers congealed into a cluster of thunderstorms along the Mason Dixon line in the early afternoon hours. A very moisture rich environment with mid 70s dew points, highly anomalous PWAT values up to 2.3, and 3000 J/kg MUCAPE resulted in flash flooding.
Read the full account →A warm front lifted north on the 12th, opening the door to abundant moisture. A cluster of thunderstorms trained along the Ohio River during the night.
Read the full account →Several lines of showers and thunderstorms formed in Ohio and West Virginia. Surface dew points were in the low and mid 70s. The less organized clusters, that were in West Virginia, began to train along a portion of the Interstate 64 corridor during the evening.
Read the full account →Showers and thunderstorms developed in West Virginia on the afternoons of July 13th through 15th in the midst of weak disturbances passing through the area. Strong wind gusts accompanying storms resulted in multiple downed trees across the state.
Read the full account →Showers and thunderstorms developed in West Virginia on the afternoons of July 13th through 15th in the midst of weak disturbances passing through the area. Strong wind gusts accompanying storms resulted in multiple downed trees across the state.
Read the full account →A nearly stationary frontal boundary across the upper Ohio valley was the focus for severe thunderstorms. A few supercells developed along the front with one severe thunderstorm producing a tornado in Tuscarawas county Ohio.
Read the full account →An anomalously moist airmass with tropical moisture resided over much of West Virginia on July 15th. Another round of slow moving thunderstorms developed on remnant boundaries and terrain circulations.
Read the full account →Widespread thunderstorms contained hail and some strong wind gusts. Cabell County residents were hit by 2 or 3 separate thunderstorms. An estimated 400 insurance claims were filed from the Huntington vicinity from these storms.
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 →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.
Read the full account →A nearly staitonary front was across southeast Ohio and northern West Virginia. During the afternoon and early evening, repetitive showers and thunderstorms moved west to east in West Virginia. A spotter reported 2.5 inches of rain in Sissonville of northern Kanawha County.
Read the full account →Training thunderstorms over the lower Potomac Highlands dumped an estimated 4 to 5 inches of rain onto previously saturated soil, producing widespread flooding.
Read the full account →A cold front slowly moving across the Ohio Valley was the focus for the development of scattered thunderstorms, some of which were severe, through the evening hours of the 16th of April.
Read the full account →Rains of 1.5 to 2 inches from 3 separate periods, fell on a saturated ground over a 24 hour period. The last shot of rain caused minor flooding on numerous small streams and creeks. Many secondary roads were closed.
Read the full account →Rains of 1.5 to 2 inches from 3 separate periods, fell on a saturated ground over a 24 hour period. The last shot of rain caused minor flooding on numerous small streams and creeks. Many secondary roads were closed.
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