Alert archive / West Virginia / 1997
Weather alerts in West Virginia, August 1997
56 weather alerts in August 1997, 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 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 56
- Warnings
- 53
- Watches
- 3
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- August 17, 199733 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 8:19 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mason | 26 min |
| Aug 4, 8:39 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Preston | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 11:47 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Monroe | 48 min |
| Aug 4, 4:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson | 28 min |
| Aug 4, 6:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Preston | 3 hr |
| Aug 9, 6:57 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Webster | 3 hr |
| Aug 15, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell | 35 min |
| Aug 15, 2:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson | 29 min |
| Aug 15, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Roane | 38 min |
| Aug 15, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Calhoun, Clay | 49 min |
| Aug 15, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Marshall | 54 min |
| Aug 16, 7:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brooke, Hancock, Marshall, Ohio | 5 hr |
| Aug 16, 8:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Hancock | 57 min |
| Aug 16, 8:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Brooke | 33 min |
| Aug 16, 9:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Marshall, Ohio | 67 min |
| Aug 16, 10:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Wetzel | 68 min |
| Aug 16, 10:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Monongalia | 60 min |
| Aug 16, 10:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Preston | 98 min |
| Aug 16, 11:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Tucker | 64 min |
| Aug 17, 1:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 29 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 17, 1:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wood | 57 min |
| Aug 17, 2:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mason | 44 min |
| Aug 17, 2:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson | 44 min |
| Aug 17, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell | 60 min |
| Aug 17, 3:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mason, Putnam | 66 min |
| Aug 17, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Ohio | 25 min |
| Aug 17, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Clay, Roane | 49 min |
| Aug 17, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Mason | 60 min |
| Aug 17, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wayne | 60 min |
| Aug 17, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barbour, Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 17, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton | 52 min |
| Aug 17, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Mineral | 34 min |
| Aug 17, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson, Lincoln, Putnam | 55 min |
| Aug 17, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Ohio | 51 min |
| Aug 17, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Hampshire | 45 min |
| Aug 17, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Webster | 63 min |
| Aug 17, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 63 min |
| Aug 17, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Berkeley, Morgan | 48 min |
| Aug 17, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Randolph, Upshur | 58 min |
| Aug 17, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Clay, Nicholas | 51 min |
| Aug 17, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Raleigh | 51 min |
| Aug 17, 6:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Ohio | 4 hr |
| Aug 17, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone | 52 min |
| Aug 17, 6:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wyoming | 42 min |
| Aug 17, 7:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Monroe | 46 min |
| Aug 17, 8:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wayne | 53 min |
| Aug 17, 8:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wayne | 49 min |
| Aug 17, 8:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Lincoln | 54 min |
| Aug 17, 8:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Putnam | 53 min |
| Aug 17, 11:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Tyler | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 11:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Tyler | 3 hr |
| Aug 19, 9:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wayne | 4 hr |
| Aug 19, 9:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boone, Lincoln, Logan | 4 hr |
| Aug 19, 9:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Mingo | 4 hr |
| Aug 19, 10:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | McDowell, Wyoming | 4 hr |
| Aug 19, 11:03 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Kanawha, Raleigh | 4 hr |
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 | 42 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 3 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 11 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Mason County5
- Preston County5
- Jackson County5
- Cabell County5
- Ohio County5
- Wayne County5
- Webster County4
- Clay County4
- Lincoln County4
- Putnam County4
- Roane County3
- Braxton County3
- Marshall County3
- Boone County3
- Kanawha County3
- Raleigh County3
- Tyler County3
- Wyoming County3
- Monroe County2
- Calhoun County2
- Brooke County2
- Hancock County2
- Wetzel County2
- Monongalia County2
- Tucker County2
- Barbour County2
- Logan County2
- Mingo County2
- Nicholas County2
- Upshur County2
- Wood County2
- Berkeley County2
- Hampshire County2
- Mineral County2
- Morgan County2
- Randolph County2
- Doddridge County1
- Fayette County1
- Gilmer County1
- Harrison 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. Rebuilt daily.