West Virginia, 2001

Flash Flood in West Virginia, January 30 to 31, 2001

January 30 to 31, 2001 · NWS PBZ · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.

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  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
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The toll

Deaths
0
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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Pittsburgh, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 30, 11:07 AM EST, 2 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 30, 11:07 AM EST, 2 hours 53 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
1107 AM EST TUE JAN 30 2001

RADAR SHOWS SCATTERED RAIN SHOWERS OVER INDIANA WILL BE MOVING INTO
THE WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON.  RAISED HIGH
TEMPERATURES FOR THE DRY PERIOD IN BETWEEN.  WIND SPEEDS WILL
GENERALLY BE 15 TO 25 MILES PER HOUR.  SO KEPT MENTION OF BREEZY
CONDITIONS.  WILL ISSUE A STATEMENT ABOUT SOME ICE JAMMING PROBLEMS
AS SOME ALREADY OCCURRING IN MARSHALL COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA. REST
UNCHANGED.

HAID/GIBBONS

.PBZ...
MD...NONE.
OH...NONE.
PA...NONE.
WV...NONE.

In the hours before

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The radar

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Event by event

1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Marshall

When
January 30, 2:00 PM EST to January 31, 10:00 PM EST
Where
Marshall County, Countywide
Reported by
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates
39.861, -80.663 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Ice jams on Fish Creek forced water onto a stretch of County Road 74 from Lynn Camp to near Graysville. In the Moundsville area, ice jams on Big Grave and Middle Grave Creeks also produced some minor roadway flooding, especially along County Road 34. Ice jams on Big Wheeling and Turkey Run Creeks produced some minor roadway flooding near Viola.

What these are

Flash Flood
Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in West Virginia in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in West Virginia, January 2001

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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5227572.