Flash Flood, Logan
- When
- August 11, 1:30 AM EST to 3:00 AM EST
- Where
- Logan County, Man
- Property damage
- $700,000
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 37.832, -81.935 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flooding in West Virginia, August 11, 2006
Late night thunderstorms trained for about 4 hours along an old outflow boundary. This occurred from about 2200E on the 10th to 0200E on the 11th.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 3 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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
- $751,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
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 RLX wrote it up.
Late night thunderstorms trained for about 4 hours along an old outflow boundary. This occurred from about 2200E on the 10th to 0200E on the 11th. The largest rain amounts of 2 to 3.5 inches were concentrated along Huff Creek and its small feeder streams. This included Sturgill and Mallory Hollows. Oceana reported 3.4 inches of rain in their 24 hour report at dawn on the 11th. Man measured 2 inches. In Wyoming County near Huff Mountain, Paynter Branch washed out a private bridge. A private bridge was also washed out along Elk Creek in Logan County. Water was reported around some buildings in Oceana. Flooding was more severe along Huff Creek in Logan County, including the Gillman Bottom vicinity. Damage assessment had 2 frame homes and 1 mobile home destroyed. Runoff from the steep mountainside pushed and stacked rocks plus debris to the second floor of 1 home. The resident said, "I just had my house remodeled, now it's totally destroyed. There's about 10 feet of rock washed down on my house. It must of been a cloudburst." Four homes had major damage. Several homes lost access to roads since small private bridges were damaged. Route 10 was flooded and closed. A second round of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon caused minor flooding of roads around Ravencliff and also around Herndon in Wyoming County.
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 Charleston, WV wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 11, 1:25 AM EST, 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 1:25 AM EST, 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 225 AM EDT FRI AUG 11 2006 .AVIATION... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CURRENTLY MOVING THROUGH PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN WV...NORTHEAST KY AND SOUTHWEST VA SHOULD CONTINUE TO PUSH SOUTHEAST THIS MORNING. CONDITIONS NEAR THESE STORMS WILL GENERALLY BE IN THE IFR/LIFR CATEGORIES...WITH VFR/MVFR CONDITIONS ACROSS THE NORTH. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY ACROSS THE SOUTH WITH IFR/LIFR CONDITIONS IN AND NEAR THE STORMS. ACROSS THE NORTH...VFR/MVFR CONDITIONS SHOULD PREVAIL. DRIER AIR WILL BEGIN TO BUILD IN LATE THIS AFTERNOON WHICH WILL RESULT IN DECREASING PRECIPITATION CHANCES AND IMPROVING CONDITIONS ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA AFTER DARK TONIGHT. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 805 PM EDT THU AUG 10 2006/ SHORT TERM /REST OF TONIGHT/... WILL UPDATE FORECAST TO LOWER POPS THIS EVENING BASED ON CURRENT RADAR TRENDS. AVIATION... EXPECT WIDESPREAD HAZE AND LIGHT FOG TONIGHT...WITH A FEW LOCATIONS HAVING PATCHY DENSE FOG. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP LATE TONIGHT. ADDITIONAL SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED FRIDAY AFTERNOON...MAINLY OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN AREAS OF THE REGION. PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 251 PM EDT THU AUG 10 2006/ SHORT TERM /REST OF TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY/... DIFFICULT FCST FOR THIS EVE THROUGH FRIDAY. BOTH GFS AND NAM SHOW DIV AT 250 AND 850 CONV VCNTY OF SRN PORTION OF THE CWA AT VARYING TIMES THIS EVENING INTO FRIDAY. THIS MAKES THE PLACEMENT AND TIMING OF HIGHER POPS DIFFICULT. LOCAL WRF MODEL AND RUC ALSO SUPPORT 250 DIV/850 CONV 23 TO 04Z TIME FRAME SO HAVE GONE WITH LKLY POPS OVER THE SOUTH THEN. INCREASE POPS AGAIN AND SHIFT TO SE DURING FRIDAY AS THE UPPER FLOW SUPPORTS LIFT WHILE THE SOUTHEAST FLOW AT LOW LEVELS SHOULD PROMOTE UPSLOPE PCPN. HAVE LOWERED THE MAX TEMPS FOR FRIDAY ALSO IN LIGHT OF THE CLOUDS/PCPN ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF CWA. PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 147 PM EDT THU AUG 10 2006/ LONG TERM /FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY/... CHANGES FOR THIS PERIOD HAVE BEEN TO INCREASE POPS FOR THE EXTREME SE CORNER OF THE CWA FOR EARLY FRIDAY NIGHT...AND TO SLOW DOWN POPS AGAIN FOR THE COLD FRONT SLIDING ACROSS EARLY NEXT WEEK. OVERALL...THE SLOWDOWN WAS BETWEEN 6 TO 12 HOURS FROM OUR PREVIOUS FORECAST ISSUANCE. THE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH THAT HAS BEEN SITUATED OVER THE NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES FOR QUITE A WHILE...WILL BE TEMPORARILY TAKING A VACATION...ALLOWING FOR THE RIDGE TO SLIDE OVER THE CENTRAL APPALACHIANS AND MIDDLE OHIO VALLEY...REALLY STARTING ON SATURDAY. IN FACT...THE RIDGE SHOULD BE OVERHEAD 12Z MONDAY. THIS WILL BE SHORT LIVED THOUGH...WITH THE TROUGH SLIDING IN AGAIN WITH OUR COLD FRONT ON TUESDAY. THE NAM AND GFS BUTTING HEADS AGAIN TODAY...WITH THE NAM KEEPING ABUNDANT PRECIP IN THROUGH THE FIRST HALF OF THE WEEKEND...AND THE GFS SWEEPING IN THE COOLER SFC HIGH FROM THE NORTH. AS A RESULT OF THESE DISCREPANCIES...HAVE TAILORED THE FORECAST WITH A LEAN TOWARDS THE SLIGHTLY COOLER AND DRIER GFS. FOR DAYS 4 THROUGH 7...MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...A GFS/ECMWF MIX WAS GENERALLY AGAIN PREFERRED. && .RLX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WV...NONE. OH...NONE. KY...NONE. VA...NONE. && AVIATION...JSH
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 10, 9:37 PM EST, 3 hours 53 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1037 PM EDT THU AUG 10 2006 KYZ101>103-105-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-VAZ003-004-WVZ005>011- 013>020-024>040-046-047-120245- GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE KY-PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON- JACKSON OH-VINTON-MEIGS-GALLIA-LAWRENCE OH-DICKENSON-BUCHANAN- WAYNE-CABELL-MASON-JACKSON WV-WOOD-PLEASANTS-TYLER-LINCOLN-PUTNAM- KANAWHA-ROANE-WIRT-CALHOUN-RITCHIE-DODDRIDGE-MINGO-LOGAN-BOONE- CLAY-BRAXTON-GILMER-LEWIS-HARRISON-TAYLOR-MCDOWELL-WYOMING- RALEIGH-FAYETTE-NICHOLAS-WEBSTER-UPSHUR-BARBOUR-POCAHONTAS- RANDOLPH- 1037 PM EDT THU AUG 10 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...SOUTHEAST OHIO...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 56 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:29 UTC.
Event by event
3 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flash Flood, Wyoming
- When
- August 11, 1:30 AM EST to 3:00 AM EST
- Where
- Wyoming County, Cyclone
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 37.610, -81.549 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood, Wyoming
- When
- August 11, 11:15 AM EST to 12:00 PM EST
- Where
- Wyoming County, East Portion
- Property damage
- $1,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 37.610, -81.549 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
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
- Lightning Strike in Arkansas, August 11, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, August 11, 2006
- Damaging Winds in Texas, August 11, 2006
- Flash Flood in Arizona, August 11, 2006
- Hail in North Dakota, August 11, 2006
- Damaging Wind in North Dakota, August 11, 2006
- Hail in Nebraska, August 11, 2006
- Damaging Winds in Arkansas, August 11, 2006
- Flash Flood and Hail in New Mexico, August 11, 2006
- Tornadoes in Virginia, August 11, 2006
- Flash Flooding in Utah, August 11, 2006
- Hail in South Dakota, August 11, 2006
More
Every storm in West Virginia in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in West Virginia, August 2006
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: 5525617, 5525618, 5525619.