Weather alerts in West Virginia, 2023
1,420 weather alerts in 2023, 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 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 1,420
- Warnings
- 409
- Watches
- 77
- Advisories
- 206
- Busiest month
- July450 alerts
- Busiest day
- August 7, 2023107 alerts
Over time
By month
The alerts
1,420 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.
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Kanawha County130
- Randolph County109
- Putnam County109
- Ritchie County105
- Greenbrier County105
- Mason County102
- Grant County100
- Cabell County100
- Roane County99
- Jackson County96
- Fayette County96
- Berkeley County94
- Jefferson County94
- Wood County93
- Pocahontas County93
- Nicholas County92
- Pleasants County91
- Pendleton County91
- Lincoln County91
- Clay County90
- Boone County89
- Braxton County88
- Mineral County87
- Calhoun County87
- Doddridge County86
- Wirt County85
- Tucker County85
- Hampshire County85
- Hancock County85
- Tyler County83
- Mercer County83
- Webster County82
- McDowell County82
- Wayne County82
- Morgan County82
- Wyoming County81
- Brooke County81
- Monongalia County80
- Harrison County80
- Logan County80
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.