Tornado, Monongalia
- When
- June 3, 1:30 PM CST
- Where
- Monongalia County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 2.3 mi
- Path width
- 150 yd
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 39.530, -79.900
Tornadoes and Hail in West Virginia, June 3, 1980
4 hail, 2 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 15
- Property damage
- $5.0 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 6
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
4 hail, 2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Preston
- When
- June 3, 1:36 PM CST
- Where
- Preston County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 21.9 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Injuries
- 15 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 39.500, -79.870
Hail, Harrison
- When
- June 3, 2:15 PM CST
- Where
- Harrison County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.400, -80.480
Hail, Taylor
- When
- June 3, 2:41 PM CST
- Where
- Taylor County
- Measured
- 2.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.320, -80.030
Hail, Marion
- When
- June 3, 3:20 PM CST
- Where
- Marion County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.400, -80.100
Hail, Randolph
- When
- June 3, 4:24 PM CST
- Where
- Randolph County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.880, -79.850
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
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The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, June 3, 1980
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- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Maryland, June 3, 1980
- Tornado and Hail in Virginia, June 3, 1980
- Tornado and Hail in New Jersey, June 3, 1980
- Tornado and Hail in North Dakota, June 3, 1980
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 3, 1980
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Delaware, June 3, 1980
- Damaging Wind in New York, June 3, 1980
- Damaging Wind in Connecticut, June 3, 1980
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10147707, 10147708, 10147709, 10147710, 10147711, 10147712.