Flash Flood in Lewis County, West Virginia

High water was observed on Oil Creek Road.

For the end of June, a stretch of active weather occurred due to a cold front that rippled across Ohio and Pennsylvania and then sank into northern West Virginia while high pressure sprawled across the southeastern United States. A low pressure system pushed the front back to the north before pivoting east out of the Great Lakes region and dragging yet another front towards the middle Ohio Valley for he final few days of June. Each day, thunderstorms and heavy showers developed amid hot and humid conditions with most widespread activity generally occurring in the afternoon and evening hours. Activity then slowly diminished for the late night and early morning hours.

Soils were already primed for flooding by wet antecedent conditions from earlier in the month. Thus, these additional rounds of heavy rain were enough to instigate localized flooding across portions of the area late in the month. In West Virginia, flash flooding led to a few water rescues and mudslides, caused creeks to leave their banks, and impacted roads in Boone, Fayette, Kanawha, Lewis, Lincoln, Logan, Putnam, and Upshur Counties.