Alert archive / West Virginia / 1997
Weather alerts in West Virginia, March 1997
66 weather alerts in March 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 March 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 66
- Warnings
- 62
- Watches
- 4
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- March 2, 199729 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 7:12 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lincoln, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 7:49 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 8:16 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Mason | 5 hr |
| Mar 1, 8:32 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Mason | 5 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:10 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:15 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:37 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wayne | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:37 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Mason | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:37 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln, Putnam | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:15 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Clay, Roane | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 11:37 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Webster | 5 hr |
| Mar 1, 1:50 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Clay, Kanawha, Roane | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 1:50 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson, Mason, Putnam | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 1:50 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lincoln | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 3:18 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Gilmer | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 4:13 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Braxton | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 4:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Clay, Fayette, Greenbrier, Kanawha, Lincoln and 11 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 5:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Kanawha | 33 min |
| Mar 1, 5:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Kanawha | 30 min |
| Mar 1, 5:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette | 49 min |
| Mar 1, 5:49 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Mason | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 5:49 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 6:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 60 min |
| Mar 1, 10:15 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson, Mason | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 12:55 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Marshall, Wetzel | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 1:08 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Ritchie, Tyler | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 1:08 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wirt, Wood | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 1:08 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pleasants | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 1:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Cabell, Clay, Fayette, Greenbrier, Kanawha and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 2:14 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Cabell, Putnam | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 2:47 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Monongalia, Preston | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 2:47 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Marion | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 3:06 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Kanawha, Roane | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 3:06 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lincoln, Wayne | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 3:06 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Gilmer | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 3:58 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson, Mason | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 5:53 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Monongalia, Preston | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 5:53 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Marshall, Wetzel | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 5:53 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Marion | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wayne | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Putnam | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Roane, Wirt | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Calhoun | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Ritchie | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Mason | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Clay | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Braxton, Gilmer | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pleasants, Tyler, Wood | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 10:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Marion, Monongalia, Wetzel | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 10:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Marshall | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 2:40 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Marion, Marshall, Wetzel | 7 hr |
| Mar 3, 8:41 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Gilmer | 6 hr |
| Mar 3, 9:03 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boone | 5 hr |
| Mar 3, 9:03 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Calhoun | 5 hr |
| Mar 3, 9:38 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Putnam | 6 hr |
| Mar 3, 10:01 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 6 hr |
| Mar 3, 10:31 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Upshur | 5 hr |
| Mar 3, 10:43 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 4 hr |
| Mar 3, 11:14 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 6 hr |
| Mar 3, 11:38 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Pleasants, Ritchie, Tyler | 6 hr |
| Mar 3, 12:22 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lincoln | 5 hr |
| Mar 28, 10:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mason | 25 min |
| Mar 28, 11:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson | 29 min |
| Mar 28, 11:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay, Fayette, Gilmer and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 29, 12:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Jefferson | 6 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 | 6 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 4 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 56 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Kanawha County12
- Mason County10
- Lincoln County9
- Jackson County9
- Clay County7
- Wayne County6
- Putnam County6
- Boone County6
- Roane County5
- Calhoun County5
- Gilmer County5
- Fayette County4
- Greenbrier County4
- Marshall County4
- Wetzel County4
- Cabell County4
- Marion County4
- Webster County3
- Braxton County3
- Logan County3
- McDowell County3
- Mingo County3
- Pocahontas County3
- Raleigh County3
- Wyoming County3
- Doddridge County3
- Ritchie County3
- Tyler County3
- Wirt County3
- Pleasants County3
- Monongalia County3
- Mercer County2
- Nicholas County2
- Summers County2
- Wood County2
- Preston County2
- Monroe County1
- Upshur County1
- Jefferson 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.