Weather alerts in West Virginia, May 2023

50 weather alerts in May 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 May 2023. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 50
Warnings: 18
Watches: 2
Advisories: 12
Busiest day: May 29, 20238 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
May 1, 2:44 AM EDT	Winter Storm Warning	RLX	Pocahontas, Randolph	31 hr
May 1, 3:03 AM EDT	Winter Weather Advisory	PBZ	Tucker	12 hr
May 1, 4:00 AM EDT	Winter Storm Warning	LWX	Pendleton	30 hr
May 1, 4:00 AM EDT	Winter Weather Advisory	LWX	Grant	30 hr
May 1, 2:48 PM EDT	Winter Storm Warning	PBZ	Tucker	44 hr
May 2, 2:48 AM EDT	Winter Weather Advisory	RLX	Pocahontas, Randolph	12 hr
May 2, 2:50 AM EDT	Freeze Warning	RLX	Fayette, Nicholas, Pocahontas, Randolph, Webster	31 hr
May 2, 4:08 AM EDT	Winter Weather Advisory	LWX	Grant, Pendleton	30 hr
May 2, 4:41 AM EDT	Freeze Warning	RNK	Greenbrier	29 hr
May 2, 4:41 AM EDT	Winter Weather Advisory	RNK	Greenbrier	29 hr
May 2, 2:50 PM EDT	Winter Storm Warning	RLX	Pocahontas, Randolph	19 hr
May 2, 4:37 PM EDT	Winter Storm Warning	LWX	Grant, Pendleton	17 hr
May 3, 7:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Webster	19 min
May 3, 7:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Greenbrier	27 min
May 3, 8:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Nicholas	26 min
May 3, 8:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Nicholas	31 min
May 4, 3:59 AM EDT	Frost Advisory	LWX	Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Mineral, Pendleton	29 hr
May 4, 4:40 AM EDT	Frost Advisory	RNK	Greenbrier, Monroe, Summers	28 hr
May 4, 1:21 PM EDT	Frost Advisory	PBZ	Monongalia, Preston, Tucker	20 hr
May 4, 1:21 PM EDT	Freeze Warning	PBZ	Tucker	20 hr
May 4, 2:44 PM EDT	Frost Advisory	RLX	Barbour, Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Fayette, Gilmer and 12 more	18 hr
May 7, 9:06 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Lincoln	24 min
May 8, 7:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Randolph	24 min
May 9, 8:13 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Mingo	32 min
May 12, 4:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Wayne	30 min
May 12, 4:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Lincoln	31 min
May 12, 5:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Lincoln	24 min
May 12, 7:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	McDowell	32 min
May 12, 7:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	McDowell	32 min
May 13, 3:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Clay	33 min
May 13, 5:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Wayne	23 min
May 13, 6:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	Cabell	36 min
May 14, 1:29 AM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	LWX	Berkeley, Jefferson, Morgan	8 hr
May 16, 12:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Logan, McDowell, Mingo, Wyoming	8 hr
May 16, 3:56 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	McDowell, Mingo, Wyoming	94 min
May 16, 4:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Mercer	8 hr
May 16, 5:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	RLX	McDowell, Mingo, Wyoming	58 min
May 16, 5:44 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	McDowell	31 min
May 16, 5:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	RLX	McDowell	38 min
May 16, 7:31 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RNK	Greenbrier, Monroe	16 min
May 17, 12:45 PM EDT	Frost Advisory	LWX	Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral and 2 more	17 hr
May 29, 1:48 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Mercer	72 min
May 29, 3:00 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RLX	McDowell, Wyoming	3 hr
May 29, 6:57 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Mercer	5 hr
May 29, 8:34 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Mercer	6 hr
May 29, 8:58 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	RNK	Mercer	6 hr
May 29, 11:06 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	RLX	McDowell	10 hr
May 29, 11:40 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	RNK	Mercer	6 hr
May 29, 2:43 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	RNK	Mercer	14 hr
May 30, 4:53 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	RNK	Mercer	12 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	2
Tornado Warning	2
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	2
Mesoscale Discussion	1
Special Weather Statement	17
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	4
Flash Flood Warning	2
Areal Flood Advisory	1
Winter
Winter Storm Warning	5
Winter Weather Advisory	5
Cold
Freeze Warning	3
Frost Advisory	5
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	1

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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.