Thunderstorm Wind, Marion
- When
- April 1, 2:15 PM EST
- Where
- Marion County, Rivesville
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- Emergency Manager
- Coordinates
- 39.530, -80.120
Emergency management reported trees down in Rivesville.
Flash Flood and Flood in West Virginia, April 1, 2007
Isolated severe thunderstorms developed across western Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia ahead of a cold front moving east from the southern Great lakes. One storm also produced flash flooding in northern West Virgina.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. 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
- $1,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
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.
Isolated severe thunderstorms developed across western Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia ahead of a cold front moving east from the southern Great lakes. One storm also produced flash flooding in northern West Virgina.
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 Apr 1, 1:19 PM EST, 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 1, 1:19 PM EST, 56 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 219 PM EDT SUN APR 1 2007 .SHORT TERM /TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY/... WIDESPREAD PRECIP IS MOVE EAST ACROSS WEST-CENTRAL PA...WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS BEHIND THAT. TSTMS ARE BEGINNING TO FIRE ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHERN OH...WV....AND EASTERN KY WITH SURFACE HEATING...INSTABILITY...AND SOME LIFT WITH SHORT WAVE IMPULSES ROTATING AROUND LARGE UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE CROSSING THE GREAT LAKES. THINK AT LEAST THE SOUTHERN DISTRICTS WILL SEE ENOUGH CLOUD BREAKS FOR HEATING/INSTABILITY TO RESULT IN SOME TSTMS FORMING...AND THOSE ENTERING THE AREA FROM THE SOUTHWEST NOT TO WEAKEN SIGNIFICANTLY. THIS BEING SAID...DO NOT THINK ORGANIZED SEVERE ACTIVITY WILL OCCUR...THUS WILL INCLUDE GUSTY WINDS WITH TSTMS ACROSS SOUTHWEST PA...WV...AND OHIO. AS THE UPPER LOW PULLS TO THE NORTHEAST TNGT...PRECIP WILL END ACROSS THE SOUTHERN DISTRICTS BY LATE THIS EVENING...AND ACROSS THE NORTHEAST PORTION OF THE FORECAST AREA DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. DRY AND MILD WEATHER IS ON TAP FOR MONDAY...WITH BREEZY WEST WINDS BEHIND THE COLD FRONT. && .LONG TERM /MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY/... A RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE ACROSS THE DISTRICT MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY WILL BRING DRY WEATHER AND MILD TEMPERATURES. A COLD FRONT MOVING ACROSS THE DISTRICT TUESDAY NIGHT WILL BRING A RISK OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FOR TUESDAY EVENING INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING. MUCH COLDER TEMPERATURES WILL SWEEP INTO THE DISTRICT BEHIND THIS COLD FRONT WITH RAIN SHOWERS WEDNESDAY EVENING CHANGING TO SNOW SHOWERS WEDNESDAY NIGHT. A LARGE UPPER LEVEL STORM WILL TAKE RESIDENCE NEAR THE NORTHERN SHORES OF LAKE ONTARIO THURSDAY AND BRING A PROLONGED PERIOD OF CLOUDY SKIES...BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES...AND PERIODS OF RAIN OR SNOW SHOWERS FOR THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. && .AVIATION /18Z-18Z/... MVFR/IFR CONDITIONS WILL BE PREVALENT WITH WIDESPREAD PRECIP THROUGH EARLY THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE NORTHERN TERMINALS...WITH VFR/SCATTERED MVFR ACROSS THE SOUTHERN TERMINALS WITH SCATTERED PRECIP AND AFTN/EVE TSTMS. COULD BE A FEW GUSTS TO 35KT IN THE STRONGER STORMS. VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL AREA WIDE BY LATE THIS EVENING. WINDS WILL INCREASE BY LATE OVERNIGHT/MONDAY...WITH MOST AREAS EXPERIENCING 15 KT WINDS BY 15Z MONDAY...WITH GUSTS TO 25 KT. && .PBZ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MD...NONE. OH...NONE. PA...NONE. WV...NONE. && 30/06/30/
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 1, 2:52 AM EST, 11 hours 23 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 352 AM EDT SUN APR 1 2007 MDZ001-OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ007>009-013>016-020>023- 029>032-WVZ001>004-012-021>023-041-020800- GARRETT-TUSCARAWAS-CARROLL-COLUMBIANA-COSHOCTON-HARRISON- JEFFERSON OH-MUSKINGUM-GUERNSEY-BELMONT-NOBLE-MONROE-MERCER-VENANGO- FOREST-LAWRENCE-BUTLER-CLARION-JEFFERSON PA-BEAVER-ALLEGHENY- ARMSTRONG-INDIANA-WASHINGTON-WESTMORELAND-GREENE-FAYETTE-HANCOCK- BROOKE-OHIO-MARSHALL-WETZEL-MARION-MONONGALIA-PRESTON-TUCKER- 352 AM EDT SUN APR 1 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN MARYLAND...EAST CENTRAL OHIO...NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...SOUTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...WEST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND NORTHERN PANHANDLE OF WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ...SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL SWING THROUGH THE REGION THIS MORNING BRINGING SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS. BEHIND THIS FRONT AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THIS UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM COULD CAUSE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO REDEVELOP. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO DEVELOP HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. LARGE HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 1, 1:08 PM EST, 1 hour 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 208 PM EDT SUN APR 1 2007 PAZ031-WVZ004-012-021-022-012000- GREENE-MARSHALL-WETZEL-MARION-MONONGALIA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WAYNESBURG...FAIRDALE...MOUNDSVILLE... NEW MARTINSVILLE...FAIRMONT...MORGANTOWN 208 PM EDT SUN APR 1 2007 A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EAST AT 30 MPH...AFFECTING MARSHALL AND WETZEL COUNTIES THROUGH 3 PM...AND GREENE...MARION...AND MONONGALIA COUNTIES BETWEEN 3 AND 4 PM. GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS.
Special weather statement, Apr 1, 1:44 PM EST, 31 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 244 PM EDT SUN APR 1 2007 PAZ031-WVZ021-022-012000- GREENE-MARION-MONONGALIA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WAYNESBURG...FAIRDALE...FAIRMONT... MORGANTOWN 244 PM EDT SUN APR 1 2007 THROUGH 4 PM...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EAST AT 35 MPH ACROSS GREENE...MARION AND MONONGALIA COUNTIES. THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL BEGIN TO AFFECT THE MORGANTOWN AREA BY AROUND 310 PM. WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER STORMS.
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 112 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:16 UTC.
Event by event
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Monongalia
- When
- April 1, 2:25 PM EST
- Where
- Monongalia County, 1 mi S of Morgantown
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- Emergency Manager
- Coordinates
- 39.605, -79.950
Emergency management reported trees down on the south side of Morgantown on Greenbag RD.
Flash Flood, Monongalia
- When
- April 1, 5:05 PM EST to 6:00 PM EST
- Where
- Monongalia County, 5 mi SE of Morgantown
- Cause
- Heavy Rain
- Property damage
- $1,000
- Reported by
- Emergency Manager
- Coordinates
- 39.569, -79.884
Flash flooding was reported by emergency management on Route 7 between Richard and Dellslow.
Flood, Marion
- When
- April 1, 8:35 PM EST to 9:35 PM EST
- Where
- Marion County, Farmington
- Cause
- Heavy Rain
- Reported by
- Emergency Manager
- Coordinates
- 39.520, -80.250
Emergency management reported standing water on roadways in Farmington and Rivesville.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
- 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.
- Flood
- Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Drought in Alabama, April 1 to 30, 2007
- Drought in Colorado, April 1 to 30, 2007
- Strong Wind in Indiana, April 1, 2007
- Drought in Minnesota, April 1 to 30, 2007
- Drought in Alabama, April 1 to 30, 2007
- Flooding in Indiana, April 1 to 9, 2007
- Drought in Minnesota, April 1 to 30, 2007
- Drought in Florida, April 1 to 30, 2007
- Drought in Utah, April 1 to 30, 2007
- Heavy Snow in Montana, April 1 to 2, 2007
- Hail in Pennsylvania, April 1, 2007
- Flooding in South Dakota, April 1 to 7, 2007
More
Every storm in West Virginia in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in West Virginia, April 2007
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: 26162, 26163, 26164, 26165.