Alert archive / West Virginia / 1998
Weather alerts in West Virginia, April 1998
11 weather alerts in April 1998, 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 April 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 11
- Warnings
- 9
- Watches
- 2
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- April 8, 19984 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wood | 43 min |
| Apr 8, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Marshall, Ohio | 49 min |
| Apr 8, 4:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Hancock | 62 min |
| Apr 8, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Brooke | 28 min |
| Apr 15, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wayne | 30 min |
| Apr 15, 6:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lincoln | 42 min |
| Apr 16, 7:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Mason | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 8:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Clay, Fayette, Kanawha and 9 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 17, 7:26 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | McDowell, Mingo | 5 hr |
| Apr 19, 1:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Preston, Tucker | 9 hr |
| Apr 19, 1:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Preston, Tucker | 9 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 |
| Tornado Watch | 2 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 3 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Wayne County2
- Lincoln County2
- McDowell County2
- Mingo County2
- Preston County2
- Tucker County2
- Wood County1
- Marshall County1
- Ohio County1
- Hancock County1
- Brooke County1
- Mason County1
- Boone County1
- Braxton County1
- Cabell County1
- Clay County1
- Fayette County1
- Kanawha County1
- Logan County1
- Nicholas County1
- Putnam County1
- Raleigh County1
- Wyoming County1
Nearby
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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.