Alert archive / West Virginia / 2008
Weather alerts in West Virginia, August 2008
47 weather alerts in August 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 August 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 47
- Warnings
- 32
- Watches
- 6
- Advisories
- 5
- Busiest day
- August 2, 200815 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, 10:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Marshall, Ohio | 58 min |
| Aug 2, 1:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Preston | 38 min |
| Aug 2, 4:24 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson, Kanawha, Mason, Putnam, Roane | 32 min |
| Aug 2, 7:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Greenbrier, Monroe | 49 min |
| Aug 2, 9:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Hampshire, Hardy | 15 min |
| Aug 2, 1:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Mercer | 34 min |
| Aug 2, 1:18 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Berkeley, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson | 57 min |
| Aug 2, 1:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barbour, Berkeley, Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge and 26 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 2, 2:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette, Raleigh | 23 min |
| Aug 2, 3:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell, Wyoming | 31 min |
| Aug 2, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Mercer | 58 min |
| Aug 2, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe | 6 hr |
| Aug 2, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Preston | 25 min |
| Aug 2, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Jefferson | 28 min |
| Aug 2, 7:09 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Grant, Hardy, Mercer, Monroe, Pendleton, Pocahontas | 96 min |
| Aug 5, 3:30 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jackson, Mason, Wirt, Wood | 90 min |
| Aug 5, 7:44 AM EDT | Flood Watch | RLX | Jackson, Mason | 6 hr |
| Aug 5, 9:23 PM EDT | Flood Watch | RLX | Cabell, Mason | 5 hr |
| Aug 10, 12:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Pendleton | 24 min |
| Aug 10, 1:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Jefferson, Morgan | 7 hr |
| Aug 10, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Berkeley, Jefferson | 30 min |
| Aug 10, 3:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Berkeley, Jefferson | 34 min |
| Aug 10, 4:06 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Berkeley, Jefferson | 84 min |
| Aug 10, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette, Kanawha | 31 min |
| Aug 13, 3:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Randolph | 26 min |
| Aug 13, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette, Raleigh | 36 min |
| Aug 13, 4:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Randolph | 2 hr |
| Aug 13, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette, Raleigh | 35 min |
| Aug 13, 4:36 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Tucker | 3 hr |
| Aug 13, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette, Nicholas | 24 min |
| Aug 13, 4:49 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RLX | Raleigh | 30 min |
| Aug 13, 5:16 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Raleigh | 119 min |
| Aug 13, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Raleigh | 28 min |
| Aug 13, 5:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Raleigh | 2 hr |
| Aug 13, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Mercer, Monroe, Summers | 42 min |
| Aug 13, 6:28 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RLX | Randolph | 3 hr |
| Aug 13, 7:07 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RLX | Wyoming | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 2:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Hampshire, Morgan | 51 min |
| Aug 14, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Brooke, Hancock, Ohio | 60 min |
| Aug 14, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Jefferson | 16 min |
| Aug 14, 3:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Berkeley | 38 min |
| Aug 14, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Berkeley, Jefferson | 34 min |
| Aug 14, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 27, 9:33 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | RNK | Mercer | 6 hr |
| Aug 28, 9:15 PM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | LWX | Grant, Mineral | 11 hr |
| Aug 30, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Greenbrier, Monroe, Summers | 96 min |
| Aug 30, 5:59 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 114 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 | 26 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 4 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 4 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Warning | 1 |
| Flash Flood Warning | 5 |
| Flood Watch | 2 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 3 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 1 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 1 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Jefferson County10
- Berkeley County9
- Raleigh County7
- Mercer County6
- Fayette County6
- Monroe County5
- Hampshire County5
- Hardy County5
- Mason County4
- Greenbrier County4
- Grant County4
- Morgan County4
- Randolph County4
- Preston County3
- Jackson County3
- Mineral County3
- Pendleton County3
- Marshall County2
- Ohio County2
- Kanawha County2
- Roane County2
- Nicholas County2
- Pocahontas County2
- Tucker County2
- Wyoming County2
- Summers County2
- Putnam County1
- Barbour County1
- Braxton County1
- Calhoun County1
- Clay County1
- Doddridge County1
- Gilmer County1
- Harrison County1
- Lewis County1
- Marion County1
- Monongalia County1
- Ritchie County1
- Taylor County1
- Tyler County1
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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.