Thunderstorm Wind — Wood, West Virginia

2025-07-26 · near Marrtown, Wood, West Virginia

Event narrative

West of Parkersburg, a tree was blown down on Larkmead Road near the intersection with Lemon Lane.

Wider weather episode

After a brief, but very welcome period of drier weather, showers and thunderstorms returned to the area on July 25th as moisture increased ahead of a cold front. Initially, most of the activity was confined to northern West Virginia and parts of southeast Ohio during the day, with a lull in precipitation overnight. Scattered showers and storms then sprouted up across the area on the 26th, where some activity even continued into the night. The next day began with more scattered showers and storms before a more robust line of thunderstorms developed along an outflow boundary that afternoon and evening. After an overnight reprieve, scattered activity redeveloped across southern West Virginia, northeast Kentucky, and southwest Virginia on the 28th. That evening, a line of thunderstorms traversed southeast Ohio and then began to fall apart after pushing east of the Ohio River. This brought the end to the active weather period for a few days across West Virginia.

Daily occurrences of severe weather and flash flooding took place across the state in the midst of this event. Flash flooding occurred in Harrison County on the 25th after storms deposited two to three inches of rain in the southwestern part of the county. Additional instances of flooding also materialized in Wood County on the 28th following rounds of heavy rain over a couple of days. The main impacts from this multiple day stretch of active weather was observed within downed trees and power lines across the area due to stronger wind gusts embedded within thunderstorms.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1278595. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.