Heavy Rain in West Virginia, May 27, 2000

Name: Heavy Rain in West Virginia, May 27, 2000
Start: 2000-05-27T10:00
End: 2000-05-27T18:00
Location: West Virginia

May 27, 2000 · NWS RLX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 heavy rain, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 1
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
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.

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Event by event

1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.

Heavy Rain, Fayette

When: May 27, 10:00 AM EST to 6:00 PM EST
Where: Fayette County, 2 mi SE of Mt Carbon
Deaths: 1 direct, 0 indirect
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 38.029, -81.081 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Rains of 1 to 1.5 inches fell during the daylight hours on this Saturday. A flash flood watch was in effect, but no flooding occurred. Between 1700 and 1730 E, a 6 year old girl drowned after falling into a swollen culvert near her home in Montgomery Heights. She was swept through a drainage pipe and into the Kanawha River.

The people who died

As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.

Event	Date	Age	Sex	Where	Kind
Heavy Rain, Fayette	2000-05-27	6	Female	Outside/Open Areas	Direct

What these are

Heavy Rain: Rainfall totals unusual for the place and season that did not produce a flood.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in West Virginia in 2000 Every state in 2000 This day in weather history Warnings in West Virginia, May 2000

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: 5142345.