2 inches during an interval of 6 to 9 hours.
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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.
The episode as NWS RLX wrote it up.
This episode had rain totals of 1.5 to 2.2 inches during an interval of 6 to 9 hours.
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 Charleston, WV wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 30, 3:06 AM EST, 1 hour 29 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 406 AM EDT SAT APR 30 2005 .SHORT TERM (TODAY THROUGH SUNDAY)... ALL THE ACTION IS RIGHT OUT OF THE GATE THIS MORNING. WARM FRONT PUSHING SLOWLY NORTH THROUGH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA AND LOW PRESSURE CENTER ALSO APPROACHING FROM THE SOUTHWEST MAKING FOR A WET START MORE OR LESS AREA WIDE. THIS IS ALL ASSOCIATED WITH GOOD ISENTROPIC LIFT...UPPER DIVERGENCE AND AN H85 THETA E FEED TO ABOUT 45 KTS. ALL OF THIS SHIFTS EASTWARD RATHER QUICKLY FIRST THING THIS MORNING...THOUGH. OWING TO MARGINAL VALUES OF THETA E AND INSTABILITY AND PWATS NOT MUCH IF ANY HIGHER THAN 1.25 INCHES...THE RAIN IS NOT PARTICULARLY HEAVY. PROBLEM IS THAT ONE LAST BATCH OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LATE FRIDAY ACROSS SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA REALLY HELPED TO KNOCK FFA VALUES DOWN TO MICROSCOPIC LEVELS THERE. SEE HYDROLOGY SECTION BELOW. SOME INSTABILITY INDICATED THIS AFTERNOON AS FRONT MOVES THROUGH EASTERN COUNTIES. WITHOUT MUCH SUNSHINE...LIMITED AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS TO EASTERN SECTIONS UNTIL POPS DROP BELOW LIKELY. WEAK UPSLOPE EVENT TONIGHT WITH COLD ADVECTION TAKING H85 TEMPERATURES DOWN TO ABOUT 0C. HAVE INCLUDED NOMINAL CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND DRIZZLE...CONFINED MAINLY TO THE MOUNTAINS AFTER 06Z. NOT MUCH CHANGE SUNDAY AS WESTERLY FLOW OF ONLY SOMEWHAT DRIER AIR CONTINUES. INTRODUCED SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS NORTHERN MOUNTAINS GIVEN CONTINUED UPSLOPE FLOW AND AVAILABLE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE. WENT A LITTLE BELOW THE MAV TODAY ON CLOUDS AND FACT THAT WARM FRONT DOES NOT MAKE IT ALL THE WAY TO NORTHERN SITES. ON OR CLOSE TO MAV TONIGHT AND SUNDAY. MAV WAS THE HIGHEST OF THE NUMBERS ON HIGHS TODAY AND SUNDAY...NUMBERS MAKE MORE SENSE SUNDAY WITH THE RETURN OF AT LEAST SOME SUNSHINE. .LONG TERM (SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY)... TROF OF LOW PRESSURE STILL SLATED TO SWING THRU SUN NGT INTO THE FIRST PART OF MONDAY. NOT MUCH MSTR TO WORK WITH AS BUFKIT SOUNDINGS DEPICT RH MAINLY BELOW 6KFT...SO CONTINUED WITH SCHC POPS AREA WIDE. GFS AND NAM DIFFER WITH AMPLITUDE OF NRN STREAM S/W PASSING MONDAY. GFS A BIT STRONGER AND MORE AGGRESSIVE WITH LLVL MSTR AS IT BRINGS IT S OF THE M/D LINE. THIS WOULD LEAD TO PRECIP CHANCES CONTINUING ALL DAY MONDAY IN THE MTNS. ELECTED TO ROLL WITH THE GFS PER ITS CONTINUITY OF LATE...NOT TO MENTION THIS CONCURS WITH ONGOING DIGITAL DATABASE. ANOTHER MID LVL WAVE TRAVERSES TUES WITH A CONT SMALL CHC OF PRECIP IN ERN ZONES. HIGH PRESSURE DRIES THINGS OUT WED UNDER A GOOD AMOUNT OF SUN. ADJUSTED SKY GRIDS DOWN TO REFLECT LOWER LAYER RH. LOW PRESSURE RIDES UP FROM THE GULF COAST STATES LATE IN THE WEEK. 00Z GFS / 12Z ECMWF SLOWER EJECTING WAVE OUT...SO POPS WERE PUSHED BACK UNTIL DAYBREAK THURSDAY AND CARRIED INTO FRI. NEAR OVC CONDS EXPECTED MONDAY SO HIGHS WERE ADJUSTED DOWN INTO THE 50S WITH SOME LOW 60S OVER THE S...OTRW MAX/MIN T GRIDS IN FINE SHAPE COMPARED TO LATEST 4/30 ENSEMBLE MOS. && .HYDROLOGY... ONE LAST BATCH OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LATE FRIDAY ACROSS SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA REALLY HELPED TO KNOCK FFA VALUES DOWN TO MICROSCOPIC LEVELS THERE. GIVEN LATEST RADAR TRENDS...WHICH ARE BEGINNING TO SHOW SOME SIGNS OF MODEL INDICATED LOSS OF ORGANIZATION OF ISENTROPIC LIFT AND DIVERGENCE AND JUST ONE MORE SIGNIFICANT BATCH OF RAIN TO MOVE ON THROUGH SOUTHERN ZONES...HAVE OPTED TO LEAVE FFA AS IS...LIMITED TO SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA COUNTIES AND ONLY UNTIL 9 AM THIS MORNING. THESE TWO COUNTIES HAVE THE LOWEST FFG VALUES...0.5 INCHES FOR ONE HOUR. && .PREVIOUS DISCUSSION... (ISSUED 143 AM EDT SAT APR 30 2005) AVIATION (06Z TO 06Z)... WARM FRONT PUSHING THROUGH THE AREA THIS MORNING WITH LOW PRESSURE CENTER APPROACHING AND THEN MOVING THROUGH LATE MORNING THROUGH MIDDAY. THIS WILL CONTINUE HIGHLY VARIABLE CONDITIONS AS LOW AS LIFR IN SHOWERS AND...FOR SOUTHERN SITES...POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS. MOIST WESTERLY FLOW IN WAKE OF EXITING SYSTEM WILL BRING ONLY MODEST IMPROVEMENT...WITH MAINLY MVFR CIGS AND VIS THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH 06Z SUN. PREVIOUS DISCUSSION... (ISSUED 1001 PM EDT FRI APR 29 2005) SHORT TERM (REST OF TONIGHT)... WARM FRONTAL BOUNDARY GETTING TOUGHER TO FIND IN SURFACE DATA...BUT RAINFALL BAND FROM CENTRAL KENTUCKY INTO TRISTATE AREA IS A GOOD INDICATOR. TREND IS FOR THIS BOUNDARY TO SHIFT VERY SLOWLY TO THE NORTH OVERNIGHT. SO FAR...MOST AREAS HAVE RECEIVED A QUARTER INCH OR LESS...WITH THE EXCEPTION BEING THE SOUTHERN COALFIELDS AND SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINA WITH UP TO A HALF INCH. STEADY RAINFALL SHOULD CONTINUE THROUGH MUCH OF THE NIGHT...UNTIL COLD FRONT APPROACHES. MOST THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL BE CONFINED TO OUR SOUTH ACROSS TN WITH BETTER H850 JET/PWAT VALUES. RAINFALL RATES IN KY RAIN HAVE GENERALLY BEEN ONE TO TWO TENTHS OF AN INCH PER HOUR...WITH SOME ISOLATED HIGHER TOTALS. THESE RATES...COMBINED WITH THE FACT THAT CONVECTION TO OUR SOUTH WILL ROB US OF BEST MOISTURE INFLOW...SHOULD KEEP RAINFALL TOTALS BELOW FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE IN WEST VIRGINIA. THUS...WILL NOT BE EXPANDING FLOOD WATCH AT THIS TIME. WILL OF COURSE CONTINUE TO MONITOR RAINFALL TOTALS...AND POSSIBLY POST A WATCH IF CONVECTION BECOMES MORE OF A POSSIBILITY. LOWER FFG VALUES POINT TO KEEPING THE WATCH UP ACROSS SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA FOR NOW. OTHERWISE...TWEAKED POP GRIDS A BEST...BRINGING CATEGORICAL INTO THE WEST SOONER. TEMPS LOOKED GOOD MOSTLY...TOOK A FEW SITES DOWN A DEGREE OR TWO. PREVIOUS DISCUSSION... (ISSUED 141 PM EDT FRI APR 29 2005) LONG TERM (TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY)... EXTENDED FORECAST BEGINS THE PERIOD WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS ON TUESDAY AS A WEAKENING SHORTWAVE MOVES ACROSS SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INTO THE MID ATLANTIC BY WEDNESDAY. THE BEST CHANCE FOR PRECIPITATION APPEARS AT THIS TIME TO BE ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE I-64 CORRIDOR. HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN BY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND PERSISTS THROUGH THURSDAY. HAVE DECREASED SKY COVER SOME LATE WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY AND RAISED TEMPS A FEW DEGREES. THERE IS SOME DISCREPANCY BETWEEN THE GFS/ECMWF WITH WHAT HAPPENS TOWARDS THE END OF NEXT WEEK. THE PREFERRED GFS KEEPS MAIN BAROCLINIC ZONE AND ASSOCIATED WEATHER ACROSS THE SOUTHEASTERN STATES WITH THE NORTHERN EDGE OF SYSTEMS CLIPPING OUR SOUTHEASTERN CWA...WHILE THE ECMWF AMPLIFIES THE UPPER FLOW AND BRINGS A FAIRLY STRONG SYSTEM UP THE APPALACHIANS BY FRIDAY. THE 06Z GFS GAVE THIS SOLUTION SOME SUPPORT BUT THE NEW 12Z GFS HAS AGAIN TRENDED TO A FURTHER SOUTH TRACK. HAVE ADDED SLIGHT CHANCE POPS THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY TO ACCOUNT FOR THIS. OTHERWISE...TEMPERATURES SHOULD BE NEAR OR SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL. && .RLX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WV...NONE. OH...NONE. KY...NONE. VA...FLOOD WATCH FOR VAZ003-004 UNTIL 9 AM THIS MORNING. && LONG TERM...29
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
533 AM EDT SAT APR 30 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0513 AM FLOOD CHAPMANVILLE 37.93N 82.02W
04/30/2005 LOGAN WV PUBLIC
STREAMS OUT OF THEIR BANKS.
EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
513 AM 04/30/2005 AND 528 AM 04/30/2005
&&The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 45 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 09:35 UTC.
4 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Route 7 was flooded by 2 feet of water from Garrett Fork. Mt Gay saw water from Mud Fork and Island Creek surround homes and a few businesses.
Marrowbone Creek and Laurel Fork were 2 of the streams that flooded. Four families were evacuated around Lenore. No serious damage occurred.
Twelvepole Creek flooded roads around Dunlow.
County officials reported several roads flooded by small streams. One example, was the Middle Fork of Mud River. It flooded portions of Route 3. No evacuations occurred.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in West Virginia in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in West Virginia, April 2005
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: 5444889, 5444844, 5444890, 5444843.