West Virginia, 2025High Wind in West Virginia, January 28, 2025
January 28, 2025 · NWS LWX · 4 events in 4 counties and zones
Strong northwest winds behind a departing cold front produced high winds across the eastern West Virginia panhandle.
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- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
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.
Strong northwest winds behind a departing cold front produced high winds across the eastern West Virginia panhandle.
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 Baltimore/Washington wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 27, 9:16 PM EST, 4 hours 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 27, 9:16 PM EST, 4 hours 44 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jan 28, 1:31 AM EST, 29 minutes before
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</html>High Wind, Western Grant
- When
- January 28, 2:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
- Where
- Western Grant forecast zone
- Measured
- 55 kt (63 mph) measured gust
- Reported by
- Mesonet
- Coordinates
- 39.105, -79.196 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
A mesonet at Bear Rocks measured a peak wind gust of 63 mph at 0330 LST.
High Wind, Eastern Grant
- When
- January 28, 2:00 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
- Where
- Eastern Grant forecast zone
- Measured
- 53 kt (61 mph) measured gust
- Reported by
- Mesonet
- Coordinates
- 39.105, -79.196 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
A mesonet near Streby, WV measured a peak wind gust of 61 mph at 0234 LST.
High Wind, Western Pendleton
- When
- January 28, 4:00 AM EST to 9:00 AM EST
- Where
- Western Pendleton forecast zone
- Measured
- 64 kt (74 mph) measured gust
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 38.681, -79.351 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
A trained spotter reported a 74 mph wind gust at Seneca Rocks at 0615 LST.
High Wind, Eastern Pendleton
- When
- January 28, 4:00 AM EST to 9:00 AM EST
- Where
- Eastern Pendleton forecast zone
- Measured
- 55 kt (63 mph) measured gust
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 38.681, -79.351 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
A trained spotter reported a 63 mph wind gust 2 miles WSW of Deer Run, WV at 0630 LST.
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
- Winter Storm and Strong Wind in New York, January 28 to 30, 202537 events
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Vermont, January 28 to 29, 202513 events
- Frost and Freeze in California, January 28 to 30, 20259 events
- Winter Storm and Heavy Snow in Alaska, January 28 to 31, 20257 events
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in New York, January 28 to 29, 20257 events
- Winter Weather and Strong Wind in Vermont, January 28 to 30, 20256 events
- Blizzard and Winter Storm in Alaska, January 28 to 31, 20255 events
- Winter Weather and Strong Wind in Massachusetts, January 28 to 30, 20255 events
- High Wind in West Virginia, January 28 to 29, 202565 kt wind · 5 events
- Winter Weather in Pennsylvania, January 28, 20254 events
- Blizzard in Alaska, January 28 to 30, 20253 events
- Winter Storm in New York, January 28 to 30, 20253 events
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: 1255187, 1255188, 1255190, 1255192.