Rain showers began on the 28th. Showers and thunderstorms were common late on the 28th into the morning of the 29th.
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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.
Rain showers began on the 28th. Showers and thunderstorms were common late on the 28th into the morning of the 29th.
Along a nearly stationary front, thunderstorms reformed during the mid afternoon over eastern Kentucky and western West Virginia on the 29th. Localized large hail fell briefly.
A swollen stream and a low water bridge combined to cause a fatality in southeastern Carter County during the early evening of the 29th.
Another round of convection formed after sunset on the evening of the 29th. Rain showers continued into the 30th, but rain intensities were lighter. The storm total rain amounts were around 3 inches across Boyd and Carter Counties. The maximum observed amount was 4.24 inches from the cooperative observer near Warnock in Greenup County. This was over a 3 day period.
Streams overflowed onto roads in Greenup County on the 30th. Luckily, the heaviest rains missed the headwaters of the Little Sandy River, keeping that river within its banks.
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 29, 12:42 PM EST, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 142 PM EDT TUE APR 29 2014 .SYNOPSIS... COLD FRONT MOVE WEST TO EAST THIS MORNING. ROUNDS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH WEDNESDAY BEFORE ANOTHER COLD FRONT PUSHES WEDNESDAY EVENING. THE WEATHER WILL TURN COOLER. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... BACK EDGE OF THE CONVECTION NOW PUSHING THROUGH...AND ENTERING A DRY PERIOD BEHIND THE WEAK COLD FRONT WITH CLEARING NOW INTO THE TRI STATE AREA. HAVE SEEN HTS BOUNCE UP TO 70F QUICKLY IN THE INCREASED SOLAR RADIATION...WITH 5 MORE DEGREES NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION. HOWEVER...WITH THIS HEATING TAKING PLACE...LOW TO MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES WILL STEEPEN...AND WILL HAVE TO INTRODUCE POPS AGAIN FAIRLY QUICKLY INTO EARLY EVENING. STILL IN THE SLIGHT RISK LARGELY DUE TO THE BULK SHEAR. VISIBLE SATELLITE NOW SHOWING SOME CUMULUS CLOUD STREETS OFF TO THE SOUTHWEST AND SHOULD BE IN THE TRI STATE AREA WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. OF INTEREST IS THE DEWPOINTS OVER THE CENTRAL KENTUCKY WHICH HAVE DROPPED INTO THE MID 50S IN THE CLEARING. AS A RESULT...THE CUMULUS IS SLOWER TO RESPOND IN THIS AREA. FOR THE FORECAST INTO TONIGHT...KEEP THE THUNDER POTENTIAL RELEGATED TO THE WESTERN HALF OF THE CWA...AS THE EASTERN HALF WILL LIKELY NOT BENEFIT FROM THE CLEARING. NOT EXPECTING MUCH THUNDER TONIGHT...BUT NOT DEVOID OF THE CHANCE EITHER. ALSO LOOKING AT THE POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING. PERRY COUNTY IS THE MOST VULNERABLE WITH 2.10 INCHES OBSERVED BY THE CO OP AS OF 8AM TODAY. FOLLOWING THE LOCAL MODELS AND NAM FRONTOGENESIS...WESTERN ZONES OF THE CWA WILL BE UNDER GOOD FORCING FOR ADDITIONAL RAINFALL FROM CONVECTION INTO TONIGHT...WITH ISSUES CLEARING THE MOUNTAINS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CWA. OF IMPORTANCE IS THAT THE HIGHER TERRAIN STILL IS STRUGGLING TO GREEN UP...SO THIS AREA WOULD EXPERIENCE A BIT MORE RUNOFF THAN THE LOWLANDS. USED THE OHRFC QPF...BUT ADDED SOME TO EKN AND VICINITY TO TAKE THE FORECAST OVER AN INCH THROUGH WEDNESDAY. MODEL ENSEMBLE AVERAGE OF THE HOURLY QPF WAS THE DRIVER BEHIND THAT PARTICULAR MOVE. NO FLOOD WATCH FOR NOW. CONVECTIVE CHANCES CONTINUE THROUGH WEDNESDAY AS THE UPPER LEVEL LOW BEGINS TO FILL AND DRIFTS NORTHEASTWARD. DRIER AIR BEGINS TO COMPETE WITH THE CURRENT ATMOSPHERE AND WILL SEE GRADUALLY DECREASING POPS. && .SHORT TERM /WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY/... AN ACTIVE FIRST HALF OF THE SHORT TERM PERIOD WITH A HOST OF HAZARDS TO ADDRESS...AS THE LARGE UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM CURRENTLY CENTERED NEAR THE CENTRAL MO RIVER VALLEY CONTINUES TO SLOWLY WOBBLE E/NE-WARD FROM THE UPPER MIDWEST AT 00Z WED TOWARDS THE WESTERN GREAT LAKES BY 12Z THU...AND FINALLY INTO ONTARIO/QUEBEC BY END OF PERIOD 12Z FRI. PERIODIC WAVES ROTATING AROUND IT IN SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WILL KEEP OFF/ON CHANCES OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE DAY HOURS ON WED BEFORE EVERYTHING BEGINS TO FINALLY PUSH EASTWARD WED EVE. AS SUCH AND IN KEEPING WITH PREV FCST...TOUGH CALL ON THE EXACT TIMING OF THESE WAVES AND ANY REMNANT MESOSCALE FEATURES SO WILL MAINTAIN AT LEAST HIGH CHANCE IF NOT LIKELY TO CATEGORICAL POPS THROUGH ROUGHLY 00Z THU. AT THIS POINT IT APPEARS ONE WAVE PUSHES ACROSS FURTHER WEST TUE EVENING INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS...WHILE ANOTHER STOUT VORT MAX MOVES ALONG THE MOUNTAINS WED MORNING. REGARDING HAZARDS...FIRST THE SEVERE THREAT. NOT REALLY ANTICIPATING SEVERE WX THIS EVENING BUT SOME DECENT ELEVATED INSTABILITY NEAR AND WEST OF THE OHIO RIVER COULD RESULT IN SOME THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NW ZONES THIS EVE MAINLY BTWN 00Z-03Z WED. THE BETTER THREAT OF ANY SEVERE WX COMES WED LATE MORNING AND INTO THE AFTERNOON HOURS OVER ROUGHLY THE EASTERN THIRD OF THE FORECAST AREA. SBCAPE VALUES RISE TO NEAR 1000J/KG IN THAT AREA WITH RESULTANT EL HEIGHTS UP TO 38KFT-40KFT...WITH 0-6K SHEAR OF 40-50KTS. AS USUAL...WILL HAVE TO SEE HOW MUCH INSTABILITY ACTUALLY IS REALIZED IF PRECIP IS WIDESPREAD AND ALREADY ONGOING WED MORNING. SPC HAS JUST HIGHLIGHTED THE EASTERN PART OF THE FORECAST AREA IN A SLIGHT RISK. THE OTHER CONCERN IS FOR FLOODING POTENTIAL. CURRENTLY HAVE TWO-DAY PRECIP (TODAY AND WED COMBINED) RANGING FROM ABOUT 1.00IN OVER THE NW ZONES TO 2.00IN -2.50IN OVER THE FAR EASTERN COUNTIES...WHICH IS JUST A BIT MORE THAN RFC QPF FOR THE EVENT BUT NOT AS MUCH AS WPC/S QPF. CONSIDERED A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR SOME OF OUR EASTERN MOUNTAIN COUNTIES FOR WED BUT DECIDED AGAINST IT FOR NOW WITH THIS AMOUNT OF QPF COMING IN FAIRLY QUICK-MOVING WAVES. WILL CONTINUE THE HWO MENTION. BY WED EVENING A SECONDARY FRONT PUSHES WILL PUSH ACROSS...WITH THE HEAVIEST PRECIP FINALLY PUSHING EAST OUT OF THE AREA. A FAIR AMOUNT OF LLVL MOISTURE REMAINS TRAPPED AND THUS WILL CONTINUE SLIGHT/LOW CHANCE POPS FOR MUCH OF THE OVERNIGHT PERIOD WED NIGHT. A STOUT INVERSION WHICH DEVELOPS AROUND 700MB WILL LIMIT VERTICAL GROWTH HOWEVER AND THUS THUNDER POTENTIAL QUICKLY ENDS BY 03Z FOR MOST IF NOT ALL OF THE AREA. SHOULD BE LITTLE IF ANY ONGOING PRECIP EARLY THU MORNING BUT WILL MAINTAIN PREV FCST SLIGHT CHANCE POPS FOR SPRINKLES AND LIGHT RAIN SHOWERS FOR THURSDAY WITH SOME POTENTIAL FOR LLVL AUTO-CONVECTIVE PRECIP DEVELOPING. OTHERWISE...THURSDAY WILL BE SUBSTANTIALLY COOLER VERSUS WEDNESDAY WITH MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES AND TEMPS GENERALLY LOWER/MID 60S LOWLANDS. MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES WILL CONTINUE FOR THU NIGHT WITH TEMPS DOWN INTO THE LOW/MID 40S FOR THE LOWLANDS...AND MID/UPPER 30S FOR THE EASTERN HIGH TERRAIN ABOVE 3000FT. && .LONG TERM /FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY/... GENERALLY FOLLOWED WPC THINKING WITH SOME TWEAKS. WEAK FRONT PUSHES EAST FRIDAY NIGHT WITH A MID-LEVEL TROUGH LAGGING BEHIND. A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH FROM THE WEST LATE SATURDAY...BEFORE PUSHING EAST SATURDAY NIGHT. HOWEVER...A MID-LEVEL TROUGH REMAINS NEARBY THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEKEND. WARM FRONT THEN LIFTS NORTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY. AS A RESULT...HAVE CHANCE POPS ACROSS MUCH OF THE REGION FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY NIGHT. PRECIP CHANCES SHOULD THEN DECREASE SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY. THE PRESENCE OF THE TROUGH AND SUFFICIENT LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE COULD RESULT IN A FEW SHOWERS SUNDAY INTO SUNDAY NIGHT...BEFORE HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN. PRECIP CHANCES SHOULD THEN RETURN TO THE AREA MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY AS A WARM FRONT DEVELOPS AND MOVES NORTHEAST. GENERALLY WENT WITH WPC TEMPS. HOWEVER...HIGH TEMPS...ESPECIALLY LATE IN THE PERIOD...APPEARED A LITTLE ON THE WARM SIDE...SO LOWERED THEM A FEW DEGREES. && .AVIATION /17Z TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY/... WIND IS LIKELY HELPING TO KEEP THE CONDITIONS VFR AS THE SHOWERS WIND DOWN THIS AFTERNOON. CLEARING TO THE WEST HAS STARTED THE FORMATION OF CUMULUS HOWEVER...AND EXPECT CONVECTION TO REFORM OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS. THIS WILL PRIMARILY AFFECT THE HTS AREA AND HAVE ADDED VCTS/CB IN MVFR CONDITIONS TO THE TAF. MAY NEED AN AMD OR A TEMPO HERE IF THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP QUICKER WITH GREATER COVERAGE THAN EXPECTED. GUSTY WINDS ARE EXPECTED AS WELL WITH CONVECTION. THIS CONVECTION FIRED OFF BY THE SUN SHOULD DISSIPATE THIS EVENING. ANOTHER WAVE OF LOW PRESSURE BRINGS MORE SHOWERS WITH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT. EXPECT CEILINGS AREA WIDE TO DROP INTO THE MVFR CATEGORY TONIGHT...AND WHERE RAIN PERSISTS AFTER 06Z...RAIN IS LIKELY TO BRING PREVAILING IFR VISIBILITIES. WILL BRING VCTS/CB BACK INTO THE FOLD TOWARDS THE END OF THE TAF PERIOD WEDNESDAY...BY 18Z. FORECAST CONFIDENCE AND ALTERNATE SCENARIOS THROUGH 18Z WEDNESDAY... FORECAST CONFIDENCE: MEDIUM. ALTERNATE SCENARIOS: HTS MAY NEED TEMPOS FOR TSRA. TIMING OF SHOWERS/STORMS COULD VARY. EXPERIMENTAL TABLE OF FLIGHT CATEGORY OBJECTIVELY SHOWS CONSISTENCY OF WFO FORECAST TO AVAILABLE MODEL INFORMATION: H = HIGH: TAF CONSISTENT WITH ALL MODELS OR ALL BUT ONE MODEL. M = MEDIUM: TAF HAS VARYING LEVEL OF CONSISTENCY WITH MODELS. L = LOW: TAF INCONSISTENT WITH ALL MODELS OR ALL BUT ONE MODEL. UTC 1HRLY 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 00 01 EDT 1HRLY 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 CRW CONSISTENCY H L L M M M M M M M M M HTS CONSISTENCY M M M H H H H H H M M M BKW CONSISTENCY M L M H M H H H H H H H EKN CONSISTENCY M M H H L L L L L L L L PKB CONSISTENCY H M M M M H H H H H H H CKB CONSISTENCY M M M L M M M M M M M M AFTER 18Z WEDNESDAY... IFR CONDITIONS POSSIBLE IN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AT VARIOUS TIMES THROUGH WEDNESDAY. && .RLX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WV...NONE. OH...NONE. KY...NONE. VA...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...50/26 NEAR TERM...26 SHORT TERM...50 LONG TERM...JSH AVIATION...26
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 529 AM EDT TUE APR 29 2014 KYZ101>103-105-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-VAZ003-004-WVZ005>011- 013>020-024>026-300930- 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- 529 AM EDT TUE APR 29 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...SOUTHEAST OHIO...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND MUCH OF WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. IF THE POSSIBILITY OF REPETITIVE HEAVIER SHOWERS BECOMES HIGHER OVER THE SAME STREAM BASINS...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH WOULD BE POSTED FOR THE MOST VULNERABLE COUNTIES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. IF THE POSSIBILITY OF REPETITIVE HEAVIER SHOWERS BECOMES HIGHER OVER THE SAME STREAM BASINS...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH WOULD BE POSTED FOR THE MOST VULNERABLE COUNTIES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. WVZ027>040-046-047-300930- CLAY-BRAXTON-GILMER-LEWIS-HARRISON-TAYLOR-MCDOWELL-WYOMING-RALEIGH- FAYETTE-NICHOLAS-WEBSTER-UPSHUR-BARBOUR-POCAHONTAS-RANDOLPH- 529 AM EDT TUE APR 29 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN ON WEDNESDAY. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. IF THE POSSIBILITY OF REPETITIVE HEAVIER SHOWERS BECOMES HIGHER OVER THE SAME STREAM BASINS...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH WOULD BE POSTED FOR THE MOST VULNERABLE COUNTIES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
1024 AM EDT TUE APR 29 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0350 PM HAIL 7 WNW HAYSI 37.24N 82.40W
04/28/2014 M2.25 INCH DICKENSON VA TRAINED SPOTTER
FELL IN THE COMMUNITY OF SKEETROCK.
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EVENT NUMBER RLX1400884
NWThe Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 70 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:32 UTC.
3 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Irregular shaped hail fell briefly over Nats Creek. It was about 3 inches long, but only about 1.25 inches wide.
Little Fork was swollen, but not flooding, near its junction with the feeder stream called Leadingham Branch. Rains of 1 to 1.5 inches likely had fallen in the vicinity over the past 24 hours. A lull in the rain occurred during the late afternoon and early evening.
During the early evening, a 73 year male tried to drive his small vehicle across a low water bridge along the dead end gravel road leading to his home. He was a long time resident there. The low water bridge was a concrete slab in the bed of the creek. There were small pipes embedded in the concrete to handle low stream flow. The vehicle was swept off the bridge. The vehicle was not found until the 2nd of May, when water levels were lower. His body was found inside the vehicle.
The accumulative affects of the rounds of showers and thunderstorms caused many streams to flood and close county roads along the usual low spots. Minor flooding was reported. Tygarts Creek was just one example. No dwellings received damage.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heavy Rain, Carter | 2014-04-29 | 73 | Male | Vehicle/Towed Trailer | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kentucky in 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in Kentucky, April 2014
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: 504050, 504842, 504097, 504098, 504624.