Alert archive / West Virginia / 2002
Weather alerts in West Virginia, August 2002
23 weather alerts in August 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 August 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 23
- Warnings
- 21
- Watches
- 2
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- August 3, 200212 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 1, 7:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Preston | 56 min |
| Aug 2, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Pendleton | 65 min |
| Aug 2, 6:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Randolph, Webster | 2 hr |
| Aug 2, 7:26 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 2 hr |
| Aug 2, 8:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Randolph | 83 min |
| Aug 3, 2:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Mineral | 62 min |
| Aug 3, 2:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 39 min |
| Aug 3, 2:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Hampshire | 47 min |
| Aug 3, 3:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Pendleton | 42 min |
| Aug 3, 3:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Hampshire, Mineral | 44 min |
| Aug 3, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Hardy | 59 min |
| Aug 3, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Preston | 32 min |
| Aug 3, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Tucker | 63 min |
| Aug 3, 6:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Preston | 117 min |
| Aug 3, 6:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Mercer, Summers | 51 min |
| Aug 3, 7:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Ritchie | 29 min |
| Aug 5, 2:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barbour, Braxton, Brooke, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 23 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 5, 2:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Hampshire, Morgan | 40 min |
| Aug 5, 2:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 5, 8:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Clay | 18 min |
| Aug 12, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Brooke, Hancock | 59 min |
| Aug 18, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mason | 23 min |
| Aug 18, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha, Putnam | 24 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 | 17 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 2 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 4 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Preston County4
- Hampshire County4
- Pendleton County3
- Randolph County3
- Mineral County3
- Webster County2
- Hardy County2
- Tucker County2
- Calhoun County2
- Ritchie County2
- Brooke County2
- Clay County2
- Mason County2
- Putnam County2
- Morgan County2
- Pocahontas County1
- Greenbrier County1
- Mercer County1
- Summers County1
- Barbour County1
- Braxton County1
- Cabell County1
- Doddridge County1
- Gilmer County1
- Harrison County1
- Jackson County1
- Lewis County1
- Marion County1
- Marshall County1
- Monongalia County1
- Ohio County1
- Pleasants County1
- Roane County1
- Taylor County1
- Tyler County1
- Upshur County1
- Wetzel County1
- Wirt County1
- Wood County1
- Berkeley County1
4 more counties
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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.