Weather alerts in West Virginia, 2017
1,224 weather alerts in 2017, 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 1,224
- Warnings
- 333
- Watches
- 69
- Advisories
- 214
- Busiest month
- July242 alerts
- Busiest day
- March 1, 201772 alerts
Over time
By month
The alerts
1,224 alerts are too many to list on one page. Narrow it to a product above, to a month in the chart, or to a county.
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 | 190 |
| Tornado Warning | 22 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 20 |
| Tornado Watch | 1 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 85 |
| Special Weather Statement | 523 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Warning | 35 |
| Flash Flood Warning | 52 |
| River Flood Warning | 11 |
| Flash Flood Watch | 27 |
| Flood Watch | 5 |
| River Flood Watch | 2 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 28 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Storm Warning | 8 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 6 |
| Freezing Rain Advisory | 12 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 67 |
| Heat | |
| Heat Advisory | 3 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 11 |
| Freeze Watch | 5 |
| Frost Advisory | 16 |
| Wind Chill Advisory | 28 |
| Wind and dust | |
| High Wind Warning | 4 |
| High Wind Watch | 3 |
| Wind Advisory | 43 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 17 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Wood County124
- Ritchie County116
- Mason County114
- Hancock County113
- Jackson County110
- Pleasants County108
- Doddridge County105
- Greenbrier County105
- Wirt County102
- Jefferson County101
- Brooke County101
- Kanawha County98
- Harrison County96
- Ohio County96
- Monongalia County95
- Preston County94
- Berkeley County93
- Lewis County90
- Mercer County88
- Cabell County88
- Taylor County88
- Marshall County86
- Upshur County85
- Grant County84
- Mineral County84
- Boone County83
- Calhoun County83
- Gilmer County83
- Randolph County83
- Tyler County83
- Pendleton County83
- Barbour County82
- Wayne County82
- Roane County81
- Putnam County79
- Marion County78
- Tucker County77
- Lincoln County77
- Nicholas County76
- Fayette County75
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.