Alert archive / West Virginia / 1998
Weather alerts in West Virginia, February 1998
8 weather alerts in February 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 February 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 8
- Warnings
- 7
- Watches
- 1
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- February 17, 19985 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 4:13 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Jefferson | 6 hr |
| Feb 5, 11:59 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Jefferson | 7 hr |
| Feb 17, 12:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette, Raleigh | 54 min |
| Feb 17, 12:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wayne | 54 min |
| Feb 17, 1:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay, Fayette and 22 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 17, 1:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wyoming | 30 min |
| Feb 17, 2:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mason | 41 min |
| Feb 28, 12:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Webster | 35 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 | 5 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 2 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Jefferson County2
- Fayette County2
- Raleigh County2
- Wayne County2
- Mason County2
- Webster County2
- Wyoming County2
- Boone County1
- Braxton County1
- Cabell County1
- Calhoun County1
- Clay County1
- Gilmer County1
- Greenbrier County1
- Jackson County1
- Kanawha County1
- Lincoln County1
- Logan County1
- McDowell County1
- Mercer County1
- Mingo County1
- Monroe County1
- Nicholas County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Putnam County1
- Roane County1
- Summers 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.