Alert archive / West Virginia / 1996
Weather alerts in West Virginia, August 1996
49 weather alerts in August 1996, 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 August 1996. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 49
- Warnings
- 49
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- August 8, 199614 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 10:03 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Calhoun | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 6:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Tucker | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 7:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Grant, Mineral | 2 hr |
| Aug 2, 7:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Hampshire, Hardy | 72 min |
| Aug 2, 7:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Hampshire, Hardy | 72 min |
| Aug 2, 9:44 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Berkeley | 66 min |
| Aug 8, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wood | 35 min |
| Aug 8, 4:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wirt, Wood | 5 hr |
| Aug 8, 4:22 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson | 5 hr |
| Aug 8, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson | 37 min |
| Aug 8, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Ritchie, Wirt, Wood | 30 min |
| Aug 8, 4:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Ritchie | 5 hr |
| Aug 8, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Harrison | 40 min |
| Aug 8, 5:24 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Randolph | 5 hr |
| Aug 8, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Mason, Putnam | 33 min |
| Aug 8, 5:53 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Tucker | 4 hr |
| Aug 8, 6:06 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 4 hr |
| Aug 8, 6:11 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Pendleton | 2 hr |
| Aug 8, 6:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Webster | 4 hr |
| Aug 8, 7:36 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Grant, Mineral | 2 hr |
| Aug 8, 10:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph, Webster | 3 hr |
| Aug 12, 10:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Mineral | 2 hr |
| Aug 14, 4:26 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Grant | 64 min |
| Aug 14, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Grant | 64 min |
| Aug 14, 5:03 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Grant, Mineral | 2 hr |
| Aug 14, 5:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 2 hr |
| Aug 14, 6:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Mineral | 2 hr |
| Aug 14, 8:32 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Pendleton | 93 min |
| Aug 15, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Brooke, Hancock, Ohio | 56 min |
| Aug 15, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Hancock | 60 min |
| Aug 15, 8:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Monongalia | 65 min |
| Aug 15, 8:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Hampshire | 63 min |
| Aug 15, 8:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Preston | 53 min |
| Aug 15, 9:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Hardy | 66 min |
| Aug 15, 9:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Hampshire | 47 min |
| Aug 16, 9:32 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boone | 3 hr |
| Aug 16, 1:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Hardy | 48 min |
| Aug 16, 1:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Preston, Tucker | 3 hr |
| Aug 16, 2:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Jefferson | 60 min |
| Aug 16, 2:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Jefferson | 60 min |
| Aug 16, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Jefferson | 67 min |
| Aug 16, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Hampshire | 63 min |
| Aug 21, 6:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Preston | 2 hr |
| Aug 21, 7:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Preston | 62 min |
| Aug 21, 8:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Preston | 2 hr |
| Aug 26, 7:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Raleigh | 2 hr |
| Aug 26, 9:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Pendleton | 2 hr |
| Aug 26, 9:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Grant | 2 hr |
| Aug 27, 5:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Hampshire | 90 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 | 19 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 30 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Grant County6
- Hampshire County6
- Mineral County5
- Preston County5
- Hardy County4
- Tucker County3
- Wood County3
- Pendleton County3
- Jefferson County3
- Wirt County2
- Jackson County2
- Ritchie County2
- Randolph County2
- Pocahontas County2
- Webster County2
- Hancock County2
- Calhoun County1
- Berkeley County1
- Doddridge County1
- Harrison County1
- Cabell County1
- Mason County1
- Putnam County1
- Greenbrier County1
- Brooke County1
- Ohio County1
- Monongalia County1
- Boone County1
- Raleigh County1
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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.