Flood Inundation, Flood Depth, and High-Water Marks for Selected Areas in West Virginia from the June 2016 Flood

Abstract

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) worked in cooperation with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to document the June, 2016 storm event in West Virginia. Heavy rainfall occurred across central and southern West Virginia in June 2016 as a result of repeated rounds of torrential thunderstorms. The storm caused major flooding and flash flooding, with Kanawha, Fayette, Nicholas, and Greenbrier Counties among the hardest hit. This data release contains the flood inundation polygons, flood-depth rasters, and high-water mark (HWM) locations for the eight selected river basins of West Virginia during June 2016 flood event. The impacted river reaches include Cherry River, Elk River, Gauley River, Greenbrier River, Howard Creek, Meadow River, Sewell Creek, and the New River. The file types contained in this data release are shape files, rasters, metadata, and images created by mapping software. The flood-documentation maps created from these HWM measurements and data release files can be found in Open-file report 2017-1140, Austin and others (2017).