Tornado, WV Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,130 ft 345 m990 ft 300 m920 ft 280 m780 ft 240 m640 ft 195 m570 ft 175 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Tornado sits at about 670 ft (205 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
670 ft 205 m
most residents: 610–990 ft
Lowest
570 ft 175 m
on the north side
Highest
1,130 ft 345 m
on the southwest side
Average
740 ft 225 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Tornado spans about 560 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 670 ft205 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 1,130 ft345 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 570 ft175 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Tornado | 610 ft185 m |
| Airport (CRW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 13 mi east of the CDP boundary | 947 ft289 m |
| Average of all land | 740 ft225 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States
- Population
- 1,081 2020 Census
- Land area
- 3.6 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 302 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.3429° N, 81.8443° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Kanawha River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- West Virginia International Yeager (CRW) 947 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 25177 25202
⤓ Download this map
WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Alum Creek830 ft
- Cross Lanes730 ft
- South Charleston710 ft
- Teays Valley710 ft
- Tornado670 ft
- West Dunbar610 ft
- Institute610 ft
- St. Albans600 ft
- Dunbar600 ft
- Jefferson590 ft
- Nitro590 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in West Virginia341st highest of 439
- Towns in Kanawha County9th highest of 32
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pilot Knob3,530 ft
- Pond Knob3,320 ft
- Rocky Knob, Putnam County1,168 ft
- Grapevine Knob1,140 ft
- Coal Mountain1,070 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census CDP boundary (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (FAA airport elevation, NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Tornado is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.