West Virginia

Storms in West Virginia in 2022

1,205 events in 150 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in West Virginia in 2022, 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 2022 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

Open the live radar over West Virginia

The year

Events
1,205
Deaths
3
Injuries
0
Damage
$24 million
Episodes
150

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 Wind46300$796,000
Winter Weather22400$103,000
Flash Flood9820$17 million
Heavy Snow9800$10,000
Flood8410$50,000
Winter Storm7700
Hail5800$225,000
Cold/Wind Chill2700
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1900$3.6 million
Strong Wind1600
Ice Storm1600
High Wind800$510,000
Heavy Rain800
Funnel Cloud300
Tornado300$2.0 million
Blizzard100
Lightning100
Debris Flow100

Every episode, month by month

January 2022

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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.