Thunderstorm Wind in Harrison County, West Virginia

In Lost Creek, a tree fell onto a house along East Main Street.

An active stretch of weather took shape across West Virginia from June 10th to the 12th amid several passing disturbances. Beginning on the morning of the 10th, overnight thunderstorm complexes across the Ohio Valley spilled into the state just after sunrise, containing heavy downpours. This resulted in high water issues across isolated spots in Lincoln, Putnam, and Kanawha Counties through the late morning hours before the departure of the first upper level disturbance.

A brief reprieve from the evening of the 10th to the morning of 11th was quickly interrupted by an approaching cold front that promoted diurnally showers and thunderstorms for the next two days. Thunderstorms developed early in the afternoon on June 11th across north-central West Virginia and tracked eastward into the mountains. Damaging winds associated with storms resulted in a swath of downed trees and power lines in these areas before dissipating with the loss of daytime heating. A similar setup took place the next day as the front slid through the forecast area, with storms developing around midday, this time across portions of central and southern West Virginia. More tree and power line damage occurred as a result, along with one instance of one inch hail. The cold front slipped through the entire area by the evening of June 12th, mitigating further showers and storms in the state.