Alert archive / West Virginia / 1998
Weather alerts in West Virginia, August 1998
20 weather alerts in August 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 August 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 20
- Warnings
- 16
- Watches
- 4
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- August 24, 199813 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 9, 6:06 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Grant | 119 min |
| Aug 14, 3:16 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Grant, Mineral | 2 hr |
| Aug 14, 4:47 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Hampshire | 93 min |
| Aug 24, 5:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Hancock | 6 hr |
| Aug 24, 9:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Hancock | 61 min |
| Aug 24, 2:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Ohio | 32 min |
| Aug 24, 3:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Marshall | 44 min |
| Aug 24, 3:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Brooke | 42 min |
| Aug 24, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Brooke | 61 min |
| Aug 24, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Marshall | 43 min |
| Aug 24, 4:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Ohio | 2 hr |
| Aug 24, 5:22 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Brooke | 3 hr |
| Aug 24, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Marshall | 43 min |
| Aug 24, 7:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Wetzel | 56 min |
| Aug 24, 7:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Tyler | 48 min |
| Aug 24, 7:39 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Brooke | 2 hr |
| Aug 25, 5:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Hancock | 4 hr |
| Aug 25, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Marshall, Pleasants, Tyler | 7 hr |
| Aug 25, 4:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Braxton, Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison, Jackson and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 25, 7:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Ritchie | 64 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 | 10 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 3 |
| Tornado Watch | 1 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 6 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Marshall County5
- Brooke County4
- Hancock County3
- Tyler County3
- Grant County2
- Ohio County2
- Wetzel County2
- Pleasants County2
- Ritchie County2
- Mineral County1
- Hampshire County1
- Braxton County1
- Calhoun County1
- Doddridge County1
- Gilmer County1
- Harrison County1
- Jackson County1
- Lewis County1
- Marion County1
- Mason County1
- Roane County1
- Upshur County1
- Wirt County1
- Wood 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. Rebuilt daily.