Flood — Greenbrier, West Virginia

2025-02-06 · near Anthony, Greenbrier, West Virginia

Event narrative

Runoff from prolonged rainfall and partially frozen ground caused Big Draft Road to be inundated by water about 2 feet deep. It's possible that the culvert under the road was partially blocked by debris. No damage was reported to the road, which was reopened to traffic after the water receded.

Wider weather episode

An area of low pressure moving northeast across the eastern Ohio Valley produced widespread precipitation across southeast West Virginia beginning Wednesday evening into early Thursday morning. While temperatures for much of southeast West Virginia were just warm enough for most of this precipitation to fall as rain, temperatures across the valleys of Western Greenbrier County where just below freezing, which resulted in icing from freezing rain, which accumulated to around one-quarter of an inch on elevated surfaces. Rainfall totals were between 2 and 3 inches for the Greenbrier River Valley, some of which fell over partially frozen ground, resulting in increased runoff that produced minor flooding of the Greenbrier River. Rainfall rates during the event were generally below 0.5 per hour, but occasionally were higher. CREST Unit Streamflows during this event did not provide returns that would indicate any flooding was taking place. However, given the partially frozen ground, Hydrophobic Unit Flow was more representative of the flooding situation.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1238815. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.