2,551 first-hand accounts of flood events in West Virginia, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
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 →Rare January dew points, in the upper 50s and lower 60s on the 8th, along with strong winds aloft, helped trigger severe weather. The rains from the past few days were heavier in Ohio, and eventually caused minor river flooding along the mainstem of the Ohio River.
Read the full account →Rare January dew points, in the upper 50s and lower 60s on the 8th, along with strong winds aloft, helped trigger severe weather. The rains from the past few days were heavier in Ohio, and eventually caused minor river flooding along the mainstem of the Ohio River.
Read the full account →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 →Well to the east of a cold front in the Ohio Valley, thunderstorms formed by the afternoon on the 4th. These storms then moved north through West Virginia. The storms were supported by a strong core of winds aloft over the Great Lakes.
Read the full account →A disturbance crossing the region brought several rounds of rain and storms across West Virginia between the 6th and 7th of May. On the afternoon and evening of the 7th, one to two inches of heavy rain accompanied a line of convection and led to localized flash flooding on two…
Read the full account →A disturbance crossing the region brought several rounds of rain and storms across West Virginia between the 6th and 7th of May. On the afternoon and evening of the 7th, one to two inches of heavy rain accompanied a line of convection and led to localized flash flooding on two…
Read the full account →A cold front passing through the area on February 17th resulted in periods of moderate to heavy rainfall. High water was observed along the roads of several counties in the western WV lowlands.
Read the full account →A cold front passing through the area on February 17th resulted in periods of moderate to heavy rainfall. High water was observed along the roads of several counties in the western WV lowlands.
Read the full account →A cold front passing through the area on February 17th resulted in periods of moderate to heavy rainfall. High water was observed along the roads of several counties in the western WV lowlands.
Read the full account →A cold front passing through the area on February 17th resulted in periods of moderate to heavy rainfall. High water was observed along the roads of several counties in the western WV lowlands.
Read the full account →A slow moving cold front combined with a highly unstable atmosphere along with tropical moisture to produce slow moving thunderstorms with heavy rainfall. Some of these storms trained over the same areas, resulting in scattered instances of flash flooding.
Read the full account →A slow moving cold front combined with a highly unstable atmosphere along with tropical moisture to produce slow moving thunderstorms with heavy rainfall. Some of these storms trained over the same areas, resulting in scattered instances of flash flooding.
Read the full account →A slow moving cold front combined with a highly unstable atmosphere along with tropical moisture to produce slow moving thunderstorms with heavy rainfall. Some of these storms trained over the same areas, resulting in scattered instances of flash flooding.
Read the full account →A slow moving cold front combined with a highly unstable atmosphere along with tropical moisture to produce slow moving thunderstorms with heavy rainfall. Some of these storms trained over the same areas, resulting in scattered instances of flash flooding.
Read the full account →A weak cold front settled over the forecast area from June 23 until June 27. Waves of low pressure rode northeast along the front. Flow in the atmosphere was parallel to the boundary, producing several rounds of training echoes.
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 →After several days of wet weather, another round of showers fell from the predawn hours on the 7th into the mid morning. Training of small heavier cells occurred across southern Lewis into Upshur Counties. Rain amounts of a .5 to .75 in 3 hours were seen.
Read the full account →Daytime heating and an abundance of moisture stirred up afternoon showers and thunderstorms across West Virginia from June 25th to the 27th. The first round of convection on the 25th resulted in several trees down around Central West Virginia while flash flooding took center…
Read the full account →As a cold front moved southeast across the upper Ohio Valley, scattered severe thunderstorms developed across eastern Ohio, western Pennsylvania, and northern West Virginia.
Read the full account →Well to the east of a cold front in the Ohio Valley, thunderstorms formed by the afternoon on the 4th. These storms then moved north through West Virginia. The storms were supported by a strong core of winds aloft over the Great Lakes.
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 →Training showers created isolated flooding in portions of the region early Monday morning (April 1st). Convection originated in the Midwest along a stationary boundary.
Read the full account →Training showers created isolated flooding in portions of the region early Monday morning (April 1st). Convection originated in the Midwest along a stationary boundary.
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