Alert archive / West Virginia / 2015
Weather alerts in West Virginia, December 2015
45 weather alerts in December 2015, 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 December 2015. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 45
- Warnings
- 4
- Watches
- 3
- Advisories
- 19
- Busiest day
- December 25, 201510 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 1, 10:47 PM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | LWX | Berkeley, Jefferson | 17 hr |
| Dec 2, 5:37 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Mercer | 113 min |
| Dec 2, 7:16 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Mercer | 74 min |
| Dec 5, 1:22 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | PBZ | Hancock | 11 hr |
| Dec 5, 6:50 PM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | PBZ | Hancock | 17 hr |
| Dec 6, 9:28 PM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | LWX | Berkeley, Jefferson | 6 hr |
| Dec 10, 3:16 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | LWX | Berkeley, Hampshire, Jefferson, Mineral, Morgan | 8 hr |
| Dec 13, 3:38 AM EST | Wind Advisory | RNK | Mercer | 39 hr |
| Dec 14, 9:31 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 28 more | 4 hr |
| Dec 14, 7:23 PM EST | Wind Advisory | LWX | Grant, Mineral, Pendleton | 10 hr |
| Dec 17, 9:57 PM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | LWX | Berkeley, Jefferson | 5 hr |
| Dec 18, 7:13 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Brooke, Hancock, Marion, Marshall, Monongalia, Ohio and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Dec 18, 8:02 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Barbour, Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge, Fayette and 14 more | 88 min |
| Dec 18, 8:49 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Marion, Monongalia, Preston, Tucker, Wetzel | 26 min |
| Dec 18, 9:10 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph | 80 min |
| Dec 18, 9:25 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Marion, Monongalia, Preston, Tucker | 80 min |
| Dec 18, 10:42 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph | 93 min |
| Dec 22, 10:15 PM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | LWX | Berkeley, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral, Morgan | 14 hr |
| Dec 23, 8:42 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cabell, Mason, Wayne | 2 hr |
| Dec 23, 10:47 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Brooke, Hancock | 43 min |
| Dec 23, 11:22 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Pleasants, Ritchie, Tyler, Wirt, Wood | 53 min |
| Dec 23, 11:29 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Hancock | 31 min |
| Dec 24, 1:46 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Cabell, Mason, Wayne | 44 min |
| Dec 24, 2:23 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Jackson, Putnam, Roane, Wirt | 52 min |
| Dec 24, 10:41 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Pleasants | 4 hr |
| Dec 24, 1:40 PM EST | Flood Watch | RLX | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 22 more | 49 hr |
| Dec 24, 2:33 PM EST | Flash Flood Watch | RNK | Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Summers | 31 hr |
| Dec 25, 4:14 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | LWX | Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral and 2 more | 9 hr |
| Dec 25, 5:25 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | RNK | Greenbrier, Monroe | 4 hr |
| Dec 25, 11:08 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Braxton, Clay, Kanawha, Putnam, Roane | 112 min |
| Dec 25, 11:46 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Cabell, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln, Mason, Putnam and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 25, 12:10 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Barbour, Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Gilmer, Lewis and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 25, 1:19 PM EST | Flash Flood Watch | LWX | Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Pendleton | 6 hr |
| Dec 25, 2:44 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Randolph | 46 min |
| Dec 25, 2:52 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | RNK | Mercer | 6 hr |
| Dec 25, 3:54 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Randolph | 51 min |
| Dec 25, 6:05 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Braxton, Calhoun, Clay | 3 hr |
| Dec 25, 10:13 PM EST | River Flood Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 15 hr |
| Dec 26, 12:17 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | LWX | Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral and 2 more | 9 hr |
| Dec 27, 2:52 PM EST | Freezing Rain Advisory | PBZ | Tucker | 37 hr |
| Dec 28, 3:10 AM EST | Wind Advisory | PBZ | Preston, Tucker | 25 hr |
| Dec 28, 3:36 AM EST | Wind Advisory | RNK | Mercer | 24 hr |
| Dec 28, 12:27 PM EST | Freezing Rain Advisory | LWX | Grant, Mineral | 15 hr |
| Dec 30, 12:08 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | LWX | Berkeley, Grant, Hardy, Jefferson, Morgan, Pendleton | 11 hr |
| Dec 31, 1:18 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | LWX | Berkeley, Jefferson | 9 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 | |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 1 |
| Special Weather Statement | 18 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Warning | 3 |
| River Flood Warning | 1 |
| Flash Flood Watch | 2 |
| Flood Watch | 1 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 1 |
| Winter | |
| Freezing Rain Advisory | 2 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 4 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 12 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Berkeley County10
- Jefferson County10
- Roane County7
- Mercer County6
- Mineral County6
- Braxton County6
- Clay County6
- Kanawha County6
- Randolph County6
- Grant County6
- Hancock County5
- Hampshire County5
- Morgan County5
- Cabell County5
- Calhoun County5
- Mason County5
- Putnam County5
- Wayne County5
- Pendleton County5
- Hardy County5
- Barbour County4
- Gilmer County4
- Jackson County4
- Lewis County4
- Pleasants County4
- Ritchie County4
- Tyler County4
- Upshur County4
- Wirt County4
- Tucker County4
- Doddridge County3
- Harrison County3
- Lincoln County3
- McDowell County3
- Pocahontas County3
- Taylor County3
- Webster County3
- Wood County3
- Wyoming County3
- Marion County3
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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.