Alert archive / West Virginia / 2008
Weather alerts in West Virginia, April 2008
39 weather alerts in April 2008, 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 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 39
- Warnings
- 21
- Watches
- 6
- Advisories
- 8
- Busiest day
- April 11, 200811 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 3, 4:35 AM EDT | Flood Watch | RLX | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 22 more | 44 hr |
| Apr 3, 12:23 PM EDT | Flood Watch | PBZ | Marion, Marshall, Wetzel | 23 hr |
| Apr 4, 3:52 AM EDT | Flood Watch | RNK | Mercer, Monroe, Summers | 21 hr |
| Apr 4, 8:16 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RLX | Cabell, Lincoln, Mason, Putnam, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Apr 4, 4:59 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Cabell | 6 hr |
| Apr 4, 5:09 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RLX | Lincoln | 6 hr |
| Apr 11, 4:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mingo | 62 min |
| Apr 11, 4:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Lincoln, Logan, Mingo, Wayne | 43 min |
| Apr 11, 4:53 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Clay, Fayette, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan and 6 more | 67 min |
| Apr 11, 5:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Clay, Fayette, Greenbrier, Kanawha, Lincoln and 12 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 11, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan | 53 min |
| Apr 11, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette, Raleigh, Wyoming | 54 min |
| Apr 11, 6:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 59 min |
| Apr 11, 6:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Nicholas, Pocahontas, Webster | 63 min |
| Apr 11, 6:56 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Pendleton, Pocahontas | 64 min |
| Apr 11, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 61 min |
| Apr 11, 7:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Pendleton | 49 min |
| Apr 13, 2:22 PM EDT | Freeze Warning | RLX | 19 hr | |
| Apr 14, 2:55 PM EDT | Freeze Warning | RLX | Boone, Cabell, Clay, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln and 9 more | 18 hr |
| Apr 15, 4:23 AM EDT | Freeze Warning | RLX | Boone, Cabell, Clay, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln and 9 more | 29 hr |
| Apr 19, 3:01 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay, Fayette, Jackson and 14 more | 119 min |
| Apr 19, 5:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette, Raleigh | 23 min |
| Apr 19, 9:00 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Greenbrier, Monroe | 60 min |
| Apr 20, 3:12 AM EDT | Flood Watch | LWX | Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral and 1 more | 27 hr |
| Apr 20, 5:22 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | RNK | Monroe | 4 hr |
| Apr 20, 4:08 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | LWX | Berkeley | 42 hr |
| Apr 20, 10:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Hampshire | 39 min |
| Apr 26, 6:11 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | LWX | Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 26, 1:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Hardy | 48 min |
| Apr 26, 1:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Berkeley, Morgan | 64 min |
| Apr 26, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Calhoun, Gilmer, Roane | 24 min |
| Apr 26, 4:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Hampshire, Mineral | 44 min |
| Apr 27, 12:13 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | LWX | Berkeley | 10 hr |
| Apr 28, 2:10 PM EDT | Freeze Watch | RNK | 14 hr | |
| Apr 29, 3:05 AM EDT | Frost Advisory | PBZ | Brooke, Hancock, Marion, Marshall, Ohio, Wetzel | 24 hr |
| Apr 29, 4:12 AM EDT | Frost Advisory | RNK | Mercer, Monroe, Summers | 29 hr |
| Apr 29, 4:12 AM EDT | Freeze Warning | RNK | Mercer, Monroe, Summers | 29 hr |
| Apr 29, 2:23 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | LWX | Berkeley, Jefferson | 18 hr |
| Apr 29, 9:33 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | RLX | McDowell, Wyoming | 11 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 | 13 |
| Tornado Warning | 1 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 4 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Warning | 1 |
| River Flood Warning | 2 |
| Flood Watch | 4 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 2 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 4 |
| Freeze Watch | 1 |
| Frost Advisory | 4 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 2 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lincoln County10
- Boone County8
- Logan County8
- Mingo County8
- Kanawha County7
- Wayne County7
- Cabell County6
- Clay County6
- Wyoming County6
- Monroe County6
- Berkeley County6
- McDowell County5
- Mason County5
- Putnam County5
- Roane County5
- Mercer County5
- Summers County5
- Fayette County5
- Raleigh County5
- Jackson County4
- Nicholas County4
- Greenbrier County4
- Hampshire County4
- Calhoun County3
- Pleasants County3
- Wirt County3
- Wood County3
- Pocahontas County3
- Hardy County3
- Jefferson County3
- Mineral County3
- Morgan County3
- Braxton County2
- Gilmer County2
- Marion County2
- Marshall County2
- Wetzel County2
- Webster County2
- Pendleton County2
- Grant County2
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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.