Weather alerts in West Virginia, 1988
28 weather alerts in 1988, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1988. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 28
- Warnings
- 28
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest month
- August12 alerts
- Busiest day
- May 23, 19885 alerts
Over time
By month
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 5:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 56 min |
| Apr 23, 6:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mineral | 57 min |
| Apr 23, 10:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Wayne | 43 min |
| Apr 23, 10:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lincoln | 63 min |
| May 9, 7:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Mason | 47 min |
| May 9, 7:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson | 43 min |
| May 9, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Roane, Wirt | 75 min |
| May 16, 2:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Jefferson | 48 min |
| May 23, 3:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha, Roane | 64 min |
| May 23, 3:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Clay | 54 min |
| May 23, 4:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton | 67 min |
| May 23, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lewis, Upshur | 60 min |
| May 23, 6:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Clay, Kanawha, Roane | 27 min |
| May 23, 8:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Brooke, Ohio | 75 min |
| May 23, 9:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Hancock | 60 min |
| Jun 2, 6:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wyoming | 48 min |
| Aug 2, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Brooke | 63 min |
| Aug 2, 6:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Barbour | 60 min |
| Aug 2, 8:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Taylor | 2 hr |
| Aug 2, 8:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Barbour | 57 min |
| Aug 2, 9:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Harrison | 65 min |
| Aug 2, 9:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Marion | 65 min |
| Aug 12, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Brooke, Hancock | 60 min |
| Aug 13, 6:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Grant, Pendleton | 2 hr |
| Aug 15, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Randolph, Tucker | 60 min |
| Aug 15, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Jefferson | 36 min |
| Aug 19, 3:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Tucker | 61 min |
| Aug 19, 4:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Grant, Hardy | 64 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 26 |
| Tornado Warning | 1 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 1 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Kanawha County3
- Roane County3
- Brooke County3
- Jefferson County2
- Clay County2
- Hancock County2
- Barbour County2
- Grant County2
- Tucker County2
- Mineral County1
- Wayne County1
- Lincoln County1
- Mason County1
- Jackson County1
- Calhoun County1
- Wirt County1
- Braxton County1
- Lewis County1
- Upshur County1
- Ohio County1
- Wyoming County1
- Taylor County1
- Harrison County1
- Marion County1
- Pendleton County1
- Randolph County1
- Hardy County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive19871989
Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.