West Virginia, 2025

High 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.

Where it happened

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The toll

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.

What happened

The episode as NWS LWX wrote it up.

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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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 28, 1:31 AM EST, 29 minutes before
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Event by event

4 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.

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.

What these are

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.

The same day elsewhere

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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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1255187, 1255188, 1255190, 1255192.