Alert archive / West Virginia / 2002
Weather alerts in West Virginia, April 2002
40 weather alerts in April 2002, 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 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 40
- Warnings
- 31
- Watches
- 9
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- April 28, 200230 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 17, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Logan | 30 min |
| Apr 19, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brooke, Hancock, Marshall, Ohio, Wetzel | 6 hr |
| Apr 19, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Hancock | 42 min |
| Apr 19, 11:06 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Marion | 3 hr |
| Apr 21, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Cabell, Fayette, Greenbrier, Kanawha, Lincoln and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 21, 8:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Wetzel | 53 min |
| Apr 21, 8:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Marshall | 60 min |
| Apr 21, 8:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mason | 34 min |
| Apr 21, 8:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson | 38 min |
| Apr 21, 10:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 44 min |
| Apr 28, 6:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Calhoun | 25 min |
| Apr 28, 8:17 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Preston, Tucker | 3 hr |
| Apr 28, 11:45 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brooke, Hancock, Jackson, Mason, Ohio, Pleasants and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 28, 12:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Putnam, Wayne | 5 hr |
| Apr 28, 1:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lincoln, Wayne | 53 min |
| Apr 28, 1:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge and 32 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 28, 1:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Logan | 42 min |
| Apr 28, 1:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Mingo | 35 min |
| Apr 28, 2:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Raleigh | 55 min |
| Apr 28, 2:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Marshall | 6 hr |
| Apr 28, 2:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wyoming | 39 min |
| Apr 28, 2:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Summers | 47 min |
| Apr 28, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Hancock | 60 min |
| Apr 28, 3:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Mercer | 44 min |
| Apr 28, 3:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Marshall | 40 min |
| Apr 28, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Monroe | 38 min |
| Apr 28, 3:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Morgan, Pendleton | 6 hr |
| Apr 28, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Tucker | 63 min |
| Apr 28, 3:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Monroe | 47 min |
| Apr 28, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Mercer | 45 min |
| Apr 28, 3:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Harrison | 33 min |
| Apr 28, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Grant, Hardy | 40 min |
| Apr 28, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Gilmer | 50 min |
| Apr 28, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Barbour | 46 min |
| Apr 28, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lewis, Upshur | 31 min |
| Apr 28, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Tucker | 65 min |
| Apr 28, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Randolph | 65 min |
| Apr 28, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge and 34 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 28, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge and 34 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 28, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Grant, Hardy | 42 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 | 27 |
| Tornado Warning | 2 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 4 |
| Tornado Watch | 5 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 2 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Logan County6
- Lincoln County6
- Mercer County6
- Monroe County6
- Tucker County6
- Wetzel County5
- Boone County5
- Greenbrier County5
- Kanawha County5
- Mingo County5
- Putnam County5
- Raleigh County5
- Summers County5
- Wyoming County5
- Grant County5
- Hancock County4
- Marshall County4
- Marion County4
- Fayette County4
- McDowell County4
- Nicholas County4
- Calhoun County4
- Preston County4
- Barbour County4
- Braxton County4
- Gilmer County4
- Harrison County4
- Lewis County4
- Randolph County4
- Upshur County4
- Wayne County3
- Pleasants County3
- Clay County3
- Doddridge County3
- Mineral County3
- Monongalia County3
- Pocahontas County3
- Ritchie County3
- Roane County3
- Taylor County3
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.