Tornado, Wetzel
- When
- July 30, 3:10 PM EST to 3:25 PM EST
- Where
- Wetzel County, Paden City to 2 mi SW of Pine Grove
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 10 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Crop damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 39.600, -80.900
Tornado in West Virginia, July 30, 1996
A tornado touched down just east of Paden City. The tornado tracked east-southeast to near Pine Grove.
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
- 0
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Crop damage
- $3,000
- Events
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS PBZ wrote it up.
A tornado touched down just east of Paden City. The tornado tracked east-southeast to near Pine Grove. Numerous trees were downed along the path, as well as some utility poles and some crops were damaged.
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 119 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:09 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Rip Current in Alabama, July 30, 1996
- Rip Current in Florida, July 30, 1996
- Tornado in Colorado, July 30, 1996
- Hail in Colorado, July 30, 1996
- Damaging Wind in West Virginia, July 30, 1996
- Hail in Wyoming, July 30, 1996
- Tornado in Wyoming, July 30, 1996
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, July 30, 1996
- Tornado in West Virginia, July 30, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Ohio, July 30, 1996
- Flash Flood in New York, July 30, 1996
- Damaging Wind in West Virginia, July 30, 1996
More
Every storm in West Virginia in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for West Virginia, 1996Warnings in West Virginia, July 1996
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: 5574739.