Alert archive / West Virginia / 1997
Weather alerts in West Virginia, May 1997
23 weather alerts in May 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 May 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 23
- Warnings
- 20
- Watches
- 3
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 19, 19976 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 3:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Hancock | 41 min |
| May 3, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Brooke, Ohio | 42 min |
| May 3, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Marshall | 42 min |
| May 14, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Lincoln, Wayne | 29 min |
| May 14, 7:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lincoln, Wayne | 37 min |
| May 14, 11:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Monongalia | 47 min |
| May 15, 12:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Preston | 63 min |
| May 18, 3:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pleasants | 39 min |
| May 18, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brooke, Hancock, Ohio | 6 hr |
| May 18, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Marshall | 33 min |
| May 18, 7:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Brooke, Hancock | 26 min |
| May 19, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brooke, Hancock, Marshall, Ohio | 6 hr |
| May 19, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barbour, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge and 26 more | 4 hr |
| May 19, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Ohio | 48 min |
| May 19, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Marshall | 34 min |
| May 19, 6:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Marshall, Ohio | 3 hr |
| May 19, 7:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Preston | 48 min |
| May 19, 8:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Gilmer | 20 min |
| May 25, 12:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Brooke, Ohio | 4 hr |
| May 25, 1:47 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Hancock | 6 hr |
| May 25, 5:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Brooke | 3 hr |
| May 25, 7:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Brooke | 8 hr |
| May 25, 9:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Harrison | 116 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 | 14 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 3 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 6 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Brooke County7
- Ohio County6
- Hancock County5
- Marshall County5
- Lincoln County3
- Wayne County3
- Preston County3
- Cabell County2
- Monongalia County2
- Pleasants County2
- Gilmer County2
- Harrison County2
- Barbour County1
- Braxton County1
- Calhoun County1
- Clay County1
- Doddridge County1
- Jackson County1
- Kanawha County1
- Lewis County1
- Marion County1
- Mason County1
- Nicholas County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Putnam County1
- Randolph County1
- Ritchie County1
- Roane County1
- Taylor County1
- Tucker County1
- Tyler County1
- Upshur County1
- Webster County1
- Wetzel County1
- Wirt County1
- Wood County1
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive19961998
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.