Thunderstorms moved through north central counties of West Virginia during the early afternoon. This was south of a cold front with plenty of instability and surface dew points in the lower 70s.
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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.
Thunderstorms moved through north central counties of West Virginia during the early afternoon. This was south of a cold front with plenty of instability and surface dew points in the lower 70s. Some sporadic tree damage occurred, but with minimal damage.
New storms formed further to the west and southwest during the afternoon. Repetitive showers and thunderstorms were seen mainly across Wayne, Lincoln and Boone Counties during the late afternoon and into the early evening. There were two specific rounds of training showers. Rain rates of 1.0 in 30 minutes and 1.5 to 1.75 inches in an hour were measured by a few of the automatic rain gauges.
The ground was wetter than normal before the event started. Small stream flooding occured in Boone County. During the last round of downpours, a man near Danville was washed into a culvert and drowned.
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 Jul 25, 10:51 AM EST, 36 minutes earlier.
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</html>The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 128 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 16:28 UTC.
6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
A tree and other large branches were blown down on roads.
A tree and other large branches were blown down on roads.
Large branches and a tree fell across roads south of Valley Falls.
A tree and other large branches were blown down along Route 92.
Large branches were blown down from the town to near the Broadous Hospital.
A tree and other large branches fell onto roads near the Elk River.
The repetitive showers and thunderstorms during the late afternoon into the early evening caused small stream to flood roads. The cooperative observer at Madison had a 24 hour rain total of 3.03 inches. Amounts of 2 to 2.5 inches likely fell in 3 hours.
Along the flood swollen stream called Price Branch, a 41 year old retired miner was clearing debris and brush from a private culvert. The water came up fast, and he went in around 1800E. A neighbor grabbed his hand and tried to keep him from getting sucked into the culvert drain pipe. The effort failed. Even the neighbor had to be rescued by 4 to 5 others. The victim's body was found a short time later in the Little Coal River near Danville.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flash Flood, Boone | 2010-07-25 | 41 | Male | In Water | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in West Virginia in 2010Every state in 2010This day in weather historyWarnings in West Virginia, July 2010
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: 246283, 246285, 246286, 246288, 246287, 246290, 246291.