West Virginia

Storms in West Virginia in 2011

1,062 events in 204 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in West Virginia in 2011, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. From 1996 the record holds 48 kinds of event with each office’s narrative; before that, tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, and before 1955 tornadoes alone.

West Virginia in 2011 on the map

Every episode with a place to put it, colored by kind of event.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

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The year

Events
1,062
Deaths
1
Injuries
3
Damage
$7.7 million
Episodes
204

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.

By kind of event

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Thunderstorm Wind30900$531,000
Hail26602$1.3 million
Winter Weather9700$60,000
Flood8000$1.1 million
Heat6700
Flash Flood5811$3.5 million
Heavy Snow5100$125,000
Dense Fog4300
Winter Storm2800
High Wind2100$237,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1700
Frost/Freeze1200
Lightning400
Excessive Heat300
Blizzard200
Heavy Rain200$30,000
Ice Storm100
Tornado100$794,000

Every episode, month by month

January 2011

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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.