Fast moving thunderstorms formed during the midday in Ohio, well in advance of a cold front in the Midwest and Lower Great Lakes. These storms raced east into central and northern West Virginia at 40 to 45 mph during the afternoon.  Their energy was derived mostly by those winds aloft. Brief severe wind gusts reached the ground.

Thunderstorm Wind in JACKSON, WEST VIRGINIA
From 08-JUL-14 13:25:00 to 08-JUL-14 13:25:00 (EST-5)
Location: MILLWOOD
Magnitude: 50.00 EG
Property damage: 1.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Public

Trees were blown down.

Thunderstorm Wind in JACKSON, WEST VIRGINIA
From 08-JUL-14 13:29:00 to 08-JUL-14 13:29:00 (EST-5)
Location: RAVENSWOOD
Magnitude: 50.00 EG
Property damage: 5.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: 911 Call Center

Trees were blown down.

Thunderstorm Wind in JACKSON, WEST VIRGINIA
From 08-JUL-14 13:28:00 to 08-JUL-14 13:28:00 (EST-5)
Location: RIPLEY
Magnitude: 50.00 EG
Property damage: 25.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: 911 Call Center

Trees were blown down.  One fallen tree damaged a vehicle.

Thunderstorm Wind in WIRT, WEST VIRGINIA
From 08-JUL-14 13:42:00 to 08-JUL-14 13:45:00 (EST-5)
Location: PEE WEE
Magnitude: 52.00 EG
Property damage: 20.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Trained Spotter

Numerous trees were blown down from near Windy Ridge and Pee Wee on through Lynn Camp and onto Courtney Ridge.  One property owner on Courtney Ridge lost 40 trees, but had no structural damage.

Thunderstorm Wind in JACKSON, WEST VIRGINIA
From 08-JUL-14 13:40:00 to 08-JUL-14 13:42:00 (EST-5)
Location: JONES CROSSING
Magnitude: 52.00 EG
Property damage: 50.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: NWS Storm Survey

Trees fell along Turkey Fork and along Garfield Ridge, bordering Wirt County.  Some fallen trees blocked roads or fell onto power lines.

Thunderstorm Wind in ROANE, WEST VIRGINIA
From 08-JUL-14 13:57:00 to 08-JUL-14 13:57:00 (EST-5)
Location: SPENCER
Magnitude: 50.00 EG
Property damage: 10.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: 911 Call Center

Several trees were blown down.

Thunderstorm Wind in GILMER, WEST VIRGINIA
From 08-JUL-14 14:20:00 to 08-JUL-14 14:20:00 (EST-5)
Location: GLENVILLE
Magnitude: 50.00 EG
Property damage: 5.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Department of Highways

Trees were blown down.

Thunderstorm Wind in RITCHIE, WEST VIRGINIA
From 08-JUL-14 14:18:00 to 08-JUL-14 14:18:00 (EST-5)
Location: AUBURN
Magnitude: 50.00 EG
Property damage: 175.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Emergency Manager

Trees were blown down.  Electricity was out.  About 6 homes had some degree of roof damage.  Two of those homes had major damage.

Thunderstorm Wind in BARBOUR, WEST VIRGINIA
From 08-JUL-14 15:00:00 to 08-JUL-14 15:00:00 (EST-5)
Location: PHILIPPI
Magnitude: 50.00 EG
Property damage: 5.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Trained Spotter

Trees were blown down.

Thunderstorm Wind in HARRISON, WEST VIRGINIA
From 08-JUL-14 14:45:00 to 08-JUL-14 14:45:00 (EST-5)
Location: BRIDGEPORT
Magnitude: 50.00 EG
Property damage: 5.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Public

Trees were blown down.

Thunderstorm Wind in RANDOLPH, WEST VIRGINIA
From 08-JUL-14 15:18:00 to 08-JUL-14 15:18:00 (EST-5)
Location: (EKN)RANDOLPH FLD EL
Magnitude: 54.00 MG
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: ASOS

A 62 mph wind gust was measured.

Thunderstorm Wind in HARRISON, WEST VIRGINIA
From 08-JUL-14 14:35:00 to 08-JUL-14 14:35:00 (EST-5)
Location: WILSONBURG
Magnitude: 50.00 EG
Property damage: 2.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: 911 Call Center

Trees were blown down along Wilsonburg Road.

Thunderstorm Wind in HARRISON, WEST VIRGINIA
From 08-JUL-14 14:41:00 to 08-JUL-14 14:41:00 (EST-5)
Location: CLARKSBURG
Magnitude: 50.00 EG
Property damage: 5.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: 911 Call Center

Trees and large branches fell in scattered locations about the city.

Thunderstorm Wind in ROANE, WEST VIRGINIA
From 08-JUL-14 13:51:00 to 08-JUL-14 13:51:00 (EST-5)
Location: REEDY
Magnitude: 50.00 EG
Property damage: 1.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: 911 Call Center

Trees were blown down.

Thunderstorm Wind in BARBOUR, WEST VIRGINIA
From 08-JUL-14 14:59:00 to 08-JUL-14 14:59:00 (EST-5)
Location: WERNER
Magnitude: 50.00 EG
Property damage: 1.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Trained Spotter

A few trees and large branches were blown down.

Thunderstorm Wind in TAYLOR, WEST VIRGINIA
From 08-JUL-14 14:53:00 to 08-JUL-14 14:53:00 (EST-5)
Location: GRAFTON
Magnitude: 50.00 EG
Property damage: 10.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Public

A chicken coop was damaged and trees fell onto power lines.

Thunderstorm Wind in JACKSON, WEST VIRGINIA
From 08-JUL-14 13:36:00 to 08-JUL-14 13:36:00 (EST-5)
Location: EVANS
Magnitude: 50.00 EG
Property damage: 1.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: 911 Call Center

Trees were blown down.

Thunderstorm Wind in PUTNAM, WEST VIRGINIA
From 08-JUL-14 14:30:00 to 08-JUL-14 14:30:00 (EST-5)
Location: POCA
Magnitude: 50.00 EG
Property damage: 5.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: 911 Call Center

Trees were blown down.

Thunderstorm Wind in PUTNAM, WEST VIRGINIA
From 08-JUL-14 14:28:00 to 08-JUL-14 14:28:00 (EST-5)
Location: MT VERNON
Magnitude: 50.00 EG
Property damage: 5.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: 911 Call Center

Trees were blown down.

Thunderstorm Wind in PUTNAM, WEST VIRGINIA
From 08-JUL-14 14:26:00 to 08-JUL-14 14:26:00 (EST-5)
Location: WINFIELD
Magnitude: 50.00 EG
Property damage: 2.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: 911 Call Center

Trees were knocked down.

Thunderstorm Wind in PUTNAM, WEST VIRGINIA
From 08-JUL-14 14:25:00 to 08-JUL-14 14:25:00 (EST-5)
Location: HURRICANE
Magnitude: 50.00 EG
Property damage: 2.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: 911 Call Center

Trees were knocked down.

Thunderstorm Wind in MASON, WEST VIRGINIA
From 08-JUL-14 13:15:00 to 08-JUL-14 13:16:00 (EST-5)
Location: HICKORY
Magnitude: 50.00 EG
Property damage: 2.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Department of Highways

Trees fell along County Routes 15 and 16.

Thunderstorm Wind in LEWIS, WEST VIRGINIA
From 08-JUL-14 14:41:00 to 08-JUL-14 14:41:00 (EST-5)
Location: JANE LEW
Magnitude: 50.00 EG
Property damage: 10.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Trained Spotter

Trees fell onto power lines.

Thunderstorm Wind in LEWIS, WEST VIRGINIA
From 08-JUL-14 14:37:00 to 08-JUL-14 14:37:00 (EST-5)
Location: JACKSON MILL
Magnitude: 50.00 EG
Property damage: 8.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Trained Spotter

Trees fell onto power lines.

Hail in CABELL, WEST VIRGINIA
From 08-JUL-14 14:10:00 to 08-JUL-14 14:10:00 (EST-5)
Location: ONA
Magnitude: 0.88 
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Social Media

Thunderstorm Wind in CALHOUN, WEST VIRGINIA
From 08-JUL-14 14:20:00 to 08-JUL-14 14:22:00 (EST-5)
Location: HUR
Magnitude: 56.00 EG
Property damage: 100.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Newspaper

Large trees were blown down, some onto power lines.  A communication tower for local businesses, built in the 1970s, was toppled on a hilltop.

Thunderstorm Wind in TAYLOR, WEST VIRGINIA
From 08-JUL-14 14:58:00 to 08-JUL-14 14:58:00 (EST-5)
Location: PARK VIEW
Magnitude: 61.00 EG
Property damage: 45.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: NWS Storm Survey

A one story frame house sustained roof damage from a fallen tree.   Another fallen tree fell onto a vehicle.  The vehicle was heavily damaged.

Thunderstorm Wind in TAYLOR, WEST VIRGINIA
From 08-JUL-14 14:58:00 to 08-JUL-14 14:58:00 (EST-5)
Location: PARK VIEW
Magnitude: 65.00 EG
Property damage: 5.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: NWS Employee

Large branches were snapped off around the Tygart Lake State park Lodge.

Thunderstorm Wind in TAYLOR, WEST VIRGINIA
From 08-JUL-14 15:02:00 to 08-JUL-14 15:02:00 (EST-5)
Location: IRONTOWN
Magnitude: 70.00 EG
Property damage: 2.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: NWS Storm Survey

Numerous trees were blown down along the valley of Three Fork Creek.

Thunderstorm Wind in RANDOLPH, WEST VIRGINIA
From 08-JUL-14 15:17:00 to 08-JUL-14 15:17:00 (EST-5)
Location: HOMEWOOD
Magnitude: 50.00 EG
Property damage: 2.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: 911 Call Center

Trees were blown down in the vicinity of Leading Creek.

Thunderstorm Wind in RANDOLPH, WEST VIRGINIA
From 08-JUL-14 15:18:00 to 08-JUL-14 15:18:00 (EST-5)
Location: ELKINS
Magnitude: 50.00 EG
Property damage: 5.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: 911 Call Center

Trees were blown down along Central Street.

Thunderstorm Wind in TAYLOR, WEST VIRGINIA
From 08-JUL-14 14:57:00 to 08-JUL-14 14:57:00 (EST-5)
Location: FETTERMAN
Magnitude: 61.00 EG
Property damage: 25.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: NWS Employee

Trees and large branches were blown down.  Electricity was knocked out.

Tornado in TAYLOR, WEST VIRGINIA
From 08-JUL-14 14:55:00 to 08-JUL-14 15:00:00 (EST-5)
Location: COFFMAN
Tornado F-scale: EF1
Property damage: 50.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: NWS Storm Survey

An EF1 tornado with maximum wind gusts estimated around 100 mph touched down near Route 310 north of Grafton and just east of the Tygart River.  The storm continued through the Wickwire Valley, then northeast through mostly uninhabitable terrain.  The track ended in the Twin Oaks subdivision, just west of Route 119.
There were no fatalities or injuries. The damage was mostly snapped and uprooted healthy trees.  One manufactured home was destroyed after a large tree fell through its roof.  A carport was also destroyed.

Thunderstorm Wind in WOOD, WEST VIRGINIA
From 08-JUL-14 13:27:00 to 08-JUL-14 13:35:00 (EST-5)
Location: MELDAHLS
Magnitude: 83.00 EG
Property damage: 350.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: NWS Storm Survey

Straight line winds caused trees to fall onto power lines and houses.  The Washington Bottom area was hit hard. A teenage girl was hit by a fallen tree branch in the City Park for Parkersburg.  She had minor injuries.  It was observed that most of the old large trees that fell in the park had extensive rot within their trunks.
Around a dozen homes had some degree of damage, mostly to their roofs. Power outages were widespread.  Some residents were without electricity for 4 days. At least one vehicle in the Washington Bottom vicinity was smashed by a fallen tree.
Embedded microbursts occurred in the Washington Bottom area.  The straight line wind damage continued with scattered wind damage into the city of Parkersburg.
One concentrated microburst was mostly confined to a wooded residential lot across from the Washington United Methodist Church on DuPont Road.  Many large tree trunks and large tree limbs were snapped.  It is in this vicinity that a maximum wind gust around 95 mph was estimated.  Another concentrated area of tree damage was around the intersection of Riverview Drive and DuPont Road.  Trees tops were snapped off.  There were 2 wooden phone poles that were snapped off close to the ground.  However, some wood rot was observed within those poles.  Winds of 70 to 75 mph were estimated around the City Park in Parkersburg.  Several of the large trees within the park had extensive wood rot.  Six residents stayed at a Red Cross shelter set up in the South Parkersburg Baptist Church.
Prior to crossing the Ohio River, this same storm caused tree damage in the Little Hocking vicinity of Ohio.

Thunderstorm Wind in CALHOUN, WEST VIRGINIA
From 08-JUL-14 14:42:00 to 08-JUL-14 14:42:00 (EST-5)
Location: MINNORA
Magnitude: 50.00 EG
Property damage: 5.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Social Media

Large tree branches fell onto power lines and across Route 16.