Alert archive / West Virginia / 2020
Weather alerts in West Virginia, September 2020
51 weather alerts in September 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 September 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 51
- Warnings
- 8
- Watches
- 2
- Advisories
- 16
- Busiest day
- September 3, 202020 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 31, 8:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | McDowell | 4 hr |
| Sep 1, 1:56 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RNK | Greenbrier, Summers | 5 hr |
| Sep 1, 7:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Randolph | 81 min |
| Sep 2, 12:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Fayette, Nicholas | 50 min |
| Sep 2, 12:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | McDowell, Raleigh, Wyoming | 40 min |
| Sep 2, 1:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Mercer | 49 min |
| Sep 2, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Jefferson | 43 min |
| Sep 3, 1:26 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Wayne | 34 min |
| Sep 3, 1:42 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Logan | 33 min |
| Sep 3, 1:53 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lincoln, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Sep 3, 2:11 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boone, Lincoln, Logan | 3 hr |
| Sep 3, 2:16 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Boone, Lincoln | 44 min |
| Sep 3, 2:25 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boone | 3 hr |
| Sep 3, 2:34 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RLX | Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge and 17 more | 15 hr |
| Sep 3, 2:40 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Raleigh | 50 min |
| Sep 3, 3:07 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Fayette | 53 min |
| Sep 3, 3:28 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Greenbrier | 62 min |
| Sep 3, 4:27 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Greenbrier | 33 min |
| Sep 3, 9:03 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Pleasants | 27 min |
| Sep 3, 9:38 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Pleasants, Tyler | 52 min |
| Sep 3, 11:34 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Doddridge, Harrison | 26 min |
| Sep 3, 3:06 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral and 2 more | 114 min |
| Sep 3, 3:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Braxton | 45 min |
| Sep 3, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Berkeley, Jefferson | 45 min |
| Sep 3, 3:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Wirt, Wood | 40 min |
| Sep 3, 3:42 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Jefferson | 6 hr |
| Sep 3, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson, Pleasants, Ritchie, Wirt, Wood | 42 min |
| Sep 4, 12:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Mingo | 26 min |
| Sep 11, 9:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Mercer | 35 min |
| Sep 13, 1:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Mingo | 34 min |
| Sep 13, 4:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Summers | 35 min |
| Sep 17, 3:26 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | RLX | Cabell, Jackson, Mason, Putnam, Wayne, Wood | 7 hr |
| Sep 18, 9:12 AM EDT | Frost Advisory | PBZ | Tucker | 24 hr |
| Sep 19, 1:17 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | PBZ | Tucker | 20 hr |
| Sep 19, 1:33 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | RLX | Barbour, Harrison, Pocahontas, Randolph, Taylor, Upshur and 1 more | 19 hr |
| Sep 19, 1:37 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | LWX | Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral and 2 more | 20 hr |
| Sep 20, 12:12 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | PBZ | Tucker | 21 hr |
| Sep 20, 12:47 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph | 20 hr |
| Sep 20, 1:43 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | LWX | Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral and 2 more | 19 hr |
| Sep 20, 8:55 PM EDT | Freeze Warning | LWX | Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 21, 1:31 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | LWX | Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral and 2 more | 19 hr |
| Sep 21, 1:36 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | RNK | Greenbrier | 19 hr |
| Sep 21, 1:43 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | RLX | Barbour, Braxton, Harrison, Lewis, Pocahontas, Randolph and 3 more | 19 hr |
| Sep 21, 3:35 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | PBZ | Preston, Tucker | 17 hr |
| Sep 26, 11:55 PM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | LWX | Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral and 1 more | 10 hr |
| Sep 27, 10:10 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | LWX | Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral and 1 more | 50 min |
| Sep 28, 6:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Mason | 53 min |
| Sep 28, 7:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Cabell, Jackson, Mason, Putnam, Wayne | 64 min |
| Sep 28, 10:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Jackson, Kanawha, Putnam, Roane | 56 min |
| Sep 28, 10:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Clay, Kanawha, Nicholas | 56 min |
| Sep 29, 12:36 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RNK | Monroe | 3 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 | 3 |
| Tornado Watch | 1 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 1 |
| Special Weather Statement | 24 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 4 |
| Flash Flood Watch | 1 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 2 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 1 |
| Frost Advisory | 11 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 3 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Jefferson County10
- Berkeley County9
- Grant County7
- Hampshire County7
- Hardy County7
- Mineral County7
- Morgan County7
- Wayne County5
- Jackson County5
- Greenbrier County4
- Randolph County4
- Lincoln County4
- Boone County4
- Harrison County4
- Mason County4
- Pleasants County4
- Putnam County4
- Wood County4
- Pendleton County4
- Tucker County4
- Logan County3
- Braxton County3
- Cabell County3
- Kanawha County3
- Mingo County3
- Wirt County3
- Pocahontas County3
- McDowell County2
- Summers County2
- Fayette County2
- Nicholas County2
- Raleigh County2
- Mercer County2
- Clay County2
- Doddridge County2
- Lewis County2
- Ritchie County2
- Roane County2
- Tyler County2
- Barbour 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.