Hail, Ohio
- When
- June 11, 3:30 PM EST
- Where
- Ohio County, 1.06 mi E of Elm Grove
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 40.050, -80.650
Flood and Hail in West Virginia, June 11 to 12, 2014
An upper level disturbance combined with a warm and humid air mass produced scattered severe thunderstorms across eastern Ohio, northern West Virginia, western Pennsylvania, and Garrett county Maryland.
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
- $58,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 8
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.
An upper level disturbance combined with a warm and humid air mass produced scattered severe thunderstorms across eastern Ohio, northern West Virginia, western Pennsylvania, and Garrett county Maryland.
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 Jun 11, 2:26 PM EST, 1 hour 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 2:26 PM EST, 1 hour 4 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 326 PM EDT WED JUN 11 2014 .SYNOPSIS... SLOW-MOVING LOW PRESSURE WILL MAINTAIN CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH FRIDAY...WITH HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING INTO THE REGION THIS WEEKEND. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH THURSDAY/... UPDTD TO ADD TORNADO WATCH FOR PTNS OF THE AREA. VISIBLE STLT TRENDS SHOW CLRG WORKING INTO THE RGN E OF THE WV PANHANDLE...WITH MESO ANALYSIS SHOWING INSTBY BLDG IN THIS RGN. EXPG SHWRS AND TSTMS TO CONT TO DVLP THRU LT AFTN...WITH THE BEST POTENTIAL FOR SVR WEA WHERE CLRG TAKES PLACE. LLVL WNDS HAVE ALSO BCM SELY ESP E-S OF PIT. THIS WL ENHANCE AVAIL SHEAR INTO THE EVE AS SPEEDS PICK UP AS WELL...INCRG THE SVR WEA THREAT. MAIN CONCERNS WL BE DAMAGING WNDS...WITH AN ISOLD TORNADO THREAT WHERE BETTER SHEAR IS IN PLACE. AFT SUNSET EXP A GRDL DECR IN TSTMS...ALTHOUGH SHWRS WL CONT AS ANOTHER SHRTWV CROSSES THE RGN IN SWLY FLOW AHD OF A SLOW- MOVG UPR TROF. PWATS ARE ELEVATED BUT STORM MOTION SHOULD PRECLUDE A WDSPRD FLOOD THREAT. THE MAIN TROF WL ADVN INTO THE RGN THU AFTN WITH ADDNL SHWR AND TSTM ACTIVITY EXPD...THOUGH SHEAR VALUES WL BE LWR THAN TDA. EXP TEMP NR THE SEASONAL AVGS. && .SHORT TERM /THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY/... ACTIVE PATTERN WILL CONT THU-FRI AS MIDWESTERN SHRTWV TROF FINALLY LIFTS OUT. PCPN WILL EXHIBIT A LULL LATE THU NGT-FRI MRNG BUT WILL REINVIGORATE ON FRI AS CDFNT SURGES SEWD AND DISPLACES MSTR EWD. POPS WERE INCRD COINCIDENT WITH FRONTAL PASSAGE TIMING. SFC HIPRES BUILDS INTO THE RGN SAT AND SUN. GENLY CLR SKIES AND TEMPS IN THE MID 70S-NR 80 XPCD WITH NO PCPN. && .LONG TERM /FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... BY SUNDAY NIGHT SURFACE RIDGE AXIS WILL SHIFT OFF THE EAST COAST AND ALLOW THE RETURN OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE. MODELS TRYING TO BRING THE REMNANTS OF AN OPENING CLOSED LOW NORTHEAST TO THE OHIO VALLEY MONDAY FOLLOWED BY SEVERAL DISTURBANCES IN ZONAL FLOW INTO MID WEEK. FOR NOW CHANCE POPS EACH DAY WITH A RETURN OF WARM AND HUMID CONDITIONS. && .AVIATION /19Z WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY/... GENLY VFR CONDS EXPD THRU LT AFTN. A DISTURBANCE WL CROSS THE RGN LTR TDA AND THIS EVE RESULTING IN NMRS SHWRS AND TSTMS DVLPG. INCLUDED A TEMPO PD FOR THE MOST LIKELY TIMES AREA PORTS WL BE AFFECTED. AFT THE CNVCTN DCRS LTR THIS EVE...EXP MVFR SHWRS AND FOG OVRNGT AS ANOTHER DISTURBANCE ADVNS. A RTN TO VFR IS EXPD THU...THOUGH ADDNL SHWRS AND TSTMS ARE EXPD ESP IN THE AFTN. .OUTLOOK.../THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY/... OCNL RSTRNS ARE EXPD THRU FRI AS SLOW MOVG LOW PRES CROSSES THE RGN. RSTRNS ARE PSBL MON AS ANOTHER DISTURBANCE APCHS. && .PBZ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MD...NONE. OH...NONE. PA...NONE. WV...NONE. && 07/KRAMAR
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 11, 2:10 PM EST, 1 hour 20 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 310 PM EDT WED JUN 11 2014 OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ007>009-013-015-016-WVZ001- 121915- TUSCARAWAS-CARROLL-COLUMBIANA-COSHOCTON-HARRISON-JEFFERSON OH- MUSKINGUM-GUERNSEY-BELMONT-NOBLE-MONROE-MERCER-VENANGO-FOREST- LAWRENCE-CLARION-JEFFERSON PA-HANCOCK- 310 PM EDT WED JUN 11 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL OHIO...NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...WEST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA AND NORTHERN PANHANDLE OF WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT AND WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PRIMARILY DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. MDZ001-PAZ014-020>023-029-031-073>076-WVZ002>004-012-021>023-041- 121915- GARRETT-BUTLER-BEAVER-ALLEGHENY-ARMSTRONG-INDIANA-WASHINGTON-GREENE- WESTMORELAND-WESTMORELAND RIDGES-FAYETTE-FAYETTE RIDGES-BROOKE-OHIO- MARSHALL-WETZEL-MARION-MONONGALIA-PRESTON-TUCKER- 310 PM EDT WED JUN 11 2014 ...TORNADO WATCH 280 IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN MARYLAND...SOUTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...WEST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND NORTHERN PANHANDLE OF WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. TORNADO WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. 07
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 3:18 PM EST, 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 418 PM EDT WED JUN 11 2014 OHZ050-PAZ029-WVZ002>004-112100- BROOKE WV-JEFFERSON OH-MARSHALL WV-OHIO WV-WASHINGTON PA- 418 PM EDT WED JUN 11 2014 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT BROOKE...NORTHEASTERN MARSHALL...OHIO...SOUTHEASTERN JEFFERSON AND WEST CENTRAL WASHINGTON COUNTIES... AT 416 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TRIADELPHIA...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND PENNY SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... DALLAS... BETHLEHEM... TRIADELPHIA... VALLEY GROVE... WARWOOD... CLEARVIEW... TILTONSVILLE... RAYLAND... WEST LIBERTY... WINDSOR HEIGHTS... WELLSBURG... FRANKLIN... PLEASE REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER BY POSTING TO THE NWS PITTSBURGH FACEBOOK PAGE OR BY USING TWITTER @NWSPITTSBURGH. LAT...LON 4035 8069 4033 8039 3996 8055 3999 8072
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 65 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:30 UTC.
Event by event
6 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Ohio
- When
- June 11, 3:30 PM EST
- Where
- Ohio County, 1.06 mi E of Elm Grove
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 40.050, -80.650
The public reported trees down near Elm Grove.
Thunderstorm Wind, Wetzel
- When
- June 11, 3:35 PM EST
- Where
- Wetzel County, 0.53 mi E of Brooklyn Jct
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Property damage
- $2,000
- Reported by
- Law Enforcement
- Coordinates
- 39.630, -80.820
Law enforcement reported a tree down on Route 20.
Thunderstorm Wind, Marshall
- When
- June 11, 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Marshall County, Cameron
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- Law Enforcement
- Coordinates
- 39.830, -80.570
Law enforcement reported a tree down.
Thunderstorm Wind, Monongalia
- When
- June 11, 4:20 PM EST
- Where
- Monongalia County, Wadestown
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Reported by
- Law Enforcement
- Coordinates
- 39.680, -80.330
Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down.
Thunderstorm Wind, Preston
- When
- June 11, 4:45 PM EST
- Where
- Preston County, 0.69 mi N of Newburg
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- Law Enforcement
- Coordinates
- 39.390, -79.850
Law enforcement reported trees down.
Thunderstorm Wind, Preston
- When
- June 11, 5:00 PM EST
- Where
- Preston County, 0.69 mi N of Reedsville
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- Law Enforcement
- Coordinates
- 39.510, -79.800
Law enforcement reported trees down.
Flood, Marion
- When
- June 12, 2:00 AM EST to 11:00 AM EST
- Where
- Marion County, Joetown to 0.51 mi SE of Joetown
- Cause
- Heavy Rain
- Property damage
- $1,000
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 39.470, -80.400
The public reported a creek out of its banks near Joetown.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- 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.
- 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
- Hail in Nebraska, June 11, 2014
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, June 11, 2014
- Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, June 11, 2014
- Tornado in Michigan, June 11, 2014
- Hail and Heavy Rain in Kansas, June 11 to 12, 2014
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, June 11, 2014
- Flash Flood and Hail in North Carolina, June 11, 2014
- Tornado and Hail in Minnesota, June 11, 2014
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 11, 2014
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 11, 2014
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Georgia, June 11 to 12, 2014
- Hail in North Dakota, June 11, 2014
More
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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. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 516775, 516776, 516777, 516778, 516779, 516780, 516781, 516782.