West Virginia tornado and storm history
Tornadoes, hurricanes, hail, and severe storms recorded in West Virginia between 1950 and 2026, from NOAA's Storm Events Database. Search an address to see the storms that came closest to it.
191
Tornado reports
29,911
Storm events
153
Deaths, all storms
Every tornado track in West Virginia
189 county track segments since 1950, coloured by rating. Zoom in and each path widens to its surveyed width. Tap one for the storm.
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Tornadoes by decade in West Virginia
Not shown for West Virginia. Only 159 tornadoes have been recorded here since 1950, which is too few to break into decades and read a trend from — the strong-tornado count for most decades would be zero or one. That thinness is itself a fact about West Virginia. Compare with states that have a longer record.
Significant recent events in West Virginia
Events with deaths, several injuries, $1M+ property damage, or tornadoes rated EF3 and up.
Reports of flash flooding began to come in around 8:30pm, starting near Peters Run Road and Battle Run Road. The water quickly rose along Little Wheeling Creek and the tributaries into Little Wheeling Creek. Emergency management reported at 9pm that there were several water rescu…
A tree blew down onto an occupied golf cart at Locust Hill Golf Course, killing one occupant and critically injuring another.
Major flash flooding occurred in and around Welch. Homes and businesses were surrounded by water, roads and underpasses became impassable, and cars were stranded. People became trapped in their vehicles on Riverside Drive before the Havaco bridge. In Kimball, water entered multip…
Heavy rain had caused multiple streams and creeks across the county to flood out of their banks and across nearby roads and properties. This included Daves Fork, Christians Fork, Lorton Lick Creek and the Bluestone River. In the Green Valley area, the South Fork Brush Creek was o…
The Tug Fork River at Williamson exceeded its flood stage of 27 feet the night of February 15, then continued to rise to a crest just under 48.4 feet the next afternoon. The river slowly receded and eventually fell back below flood stage the morning of the 17th. Around 1 am on th…
The Tug Fork Fork River at Litwar exceeded its flood stage of 24 feet the night of February 15, then rose to a crest near 31 feet overnight. The river returned below flood stage the morning of the 16th. Major flooding impacted homes along the river between Iaeger and Panther, Cou…
Thousands of trees were downed across the county from high winds associated with the remnants of Hurricane Helene. The trees caused numerous road closures and many fell on homes. Seven homes were destroyed, and 22 homes sustained major damage. By noon on Friday, near 24,500 custo…
A man drove past high water signs on Nicolette Road. The vehicle became stranded in flood waters and submerged, claiming the life of the occupant.
Report of evacuating 4 people from a home due to high water and potential landslide. Wetzel County declared $1,423,900 in damage from storms between April 11-12th.
In Davisville, a vehicle drove into flood water occurring within a large dip in the road along Nicolette Road, overturned and submerged. The single occupant was unable to egress.
Marshall County declared $3,571,000 in damage from storms between April 2nd to April 3rd.
Tanner Run flooded the Spencer Middle School baseball field. A fatality occurred when a man fell asleep in the dugout and was swept away. Local responders found him later that afternoon after the flood waters had receded.
Extensive flooding damage was observed in different neighborhoods within the Chelyan and Cedar Grove townships. On the Cedar Grove side of the Kanawha River, many homes were surrounded by water as Kelleys Creek rose out of its banks. The NWS Storm Survey crew noted a few areas al…
Continuous rounds of rain led to prolonged flooding around the Pax area. High water was first observed on the evening of February 16th along Packs Branch Road and portions of Paint Creek Road. The next morning, Paint Creek remained out of its banks and continued to spill onto Pai…
Over 75% of the county was without water for a prolonged period of time. Most of the water tanks in Beckley were drained over the Christmas holiday due to customer water line breaks and fire suppression systems freezing and busting from the extreme cold. Several businesses report…
Counties and zones
Each county’s full storm history, with its event count. Some entries are National Weather Service forecast zones rather than civil counties.
Barbour (456)
Berkeley (954)
Boone (509)
Braxton (415)
Brooke (291)
Cabell (579)
Calhoun (310)
Clay (354)
Doddridge (332)
Eastern Grant (310)
Eastern Greenbrier (44)
Eastern Mineral (300)
Eastern Pendleton (219)
Eastern Preston (99)
Eastern Tucker (149)
Fayette (467)
Gilmer (350)
Grant (353)
Greenbrier (613)
Hampshire (732)
Hancock (311)
Hardy (627)
Harrison (683)
Jackson (489)
Jefferson (819)
Kanawha (1,233)
Lewis (438)
Lincoln (474)
Logan (468)
Marion (470)
Marshall (389)
Mason (472)
Mcdowell (473)
Mercer (514)
Mineral (349)
Mingo (453)
Monongalia (595)
Monroe (271)
Morgan (626)
Nicholas (397)
Northwest Fayette (72)
Northwest Nicholas (67)
Northwest Pocahontas (109)
Northwest Raleigh (74)
Northwest Randolph (78)
Northwest Webster (70)
Ohio (379)
Pendleton (342)
Pleasants (250)
Pocahontas (397)
Preston (717)
Putnam (672)
Raleigh (583)
Randolph (521)
Ridges of E Monongalia and Nw Preston (35)
Ritchie (416)
Roane (432)
Southeast Fayette (76)
Southeast Nicholas (73)
Southeast Pocahontas (64)
Southeast Raleigh (93)
Southeast Randolph (99)
Southeast Webster (73)
Summers (291)
Taylor (392)
Tucker (361)
Tucker, Barbour, Randolph, Upshur and Webster (1)
Tyler (374)
Upshur (561)
Wayne (568)
Webster (411)
Western Grant (466)
Western Greenbrier (52)
Western Mineral (326)
Western Pendleton (347)
Western Tucker (54)
Wetzel (291)
Wirt (271)
Wood (629)
Wyoming (423)
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