Weather alerts in West Virginia, 2020
1,446 weather alerts in 2020, 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 1,446
- Warnings
- 477
- Watches
- 112
- Advisories
- 209
- Busiest month
- July268 alerts
- Busiest day
- April 8, 202065 alerts
Over time
By month
The alerts
1,446 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 | 280 |
| Tornado Warning | 3 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 19 |
| Tornado Watch | 3 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 82 |
| Special Weather Statement | 566 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Warning | 54 |
| Flash Flood Warning | 61 |
| River Flood Warning | 13 |
| Flash Flood Watch | 37 |
| Flood Watch | 12 |
| River Flood Watch | 8 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 34 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Storm Warning | 22 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 12 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 53 |
| Heat | |
| Heat Advisory | 7 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 41 |
| Freeze Watch | 15 |
| Wind Chill Watch | 1 |
| Frost Advisory | 35 |
| Wind Chill Advisory | 6 |
| Wind and dust | |
| High Wind Warning | 3 |
| High Wind Watch | 5 |
| Wind Advisory | 47 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 27 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Greenbrier County145
- Jefferson County139
- Mercer County137
- Berkeley County129
- Monroe County123
- Hampshire County122
- Summers County122
- Morgan County119
- Randolph County118
- Kanawha County118
- Grant County116
- Braxton County116
- Pendleton County114
- Hardy County113
- Mineral County107
- Roane County107
- Jackson County103
- Upshur County101
- Webster County100
- Ritchie County100
- Lewis County99
- Lincoln County99
- Hancock County98
- Pocahontas County97
- Calhoun County95
- Nicholas County94
- Putnam County94
- Clay County93
- Gilmer County93
- Tucker County92
- Fayette County90
- Ohio County90
- Cabell County90
- Wood County90
- Monongalia County89
- Wirt County89
- Boone County88
- Mason County88
- Tyler County88
- Pleasants County87
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.