Flash Flood in Tazewell County, Virginia
Flash Flood July 16, 2025 – July 17, 2025 · Tazewell County, Virginia
Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.
What the National Weather Service wrote
Slow-moving thunderstorms produced a radar-estimated 4 to 4.25 inches of rain within a 2-hour period in the vicinity of the Towns of Richlands and Cedar Bluff, with most of the rain falling in around 90 minutes. Such a rainfall would be a 200-year ARI at the 2-hour duration per NOAA Atlas 14 Point Precipitation Frequency estimates. Rainfall rates estimated by radar reached a maximum of around 5.5 inches per hour. FLASH 3-hour ARI reached a maximum of a 200-year event by 10:40 pm EDT, while the 3-hour FLASH QPE/FFG Ratio rose as high as 245. Runoff from the rainfall caused several roads to be flooded and impassible until the flood waters receded within the area. This included Franklin Avenue and Business Route 460 in Richlands. No known damage resulted from this flooding.
The wider storm
A hot and humid air mass combined with orographical lift to produce a severe thunderstorm in Bath County of southwest Virginia. Damaging wind gusts from this storm blew down two trees west of Nimrod Hall.
Began near Red Ash (37.1108, -81.8694).
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1293491. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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