Alert archive / West Virginia

Weather alerts in Boone County, West Virginia

2,663 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Boone County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
2,663
Warnings
839
Watches
526
Advisories
371
Busiest year
2026192 alerts
Average year
70over 38 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

From 2008 to 2025, of tornado reports in Boone County fell inside a tornado warning, and 78% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
201230100%0
2016110%0
20242150%0
202530100%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008261735%9100%32 min
200916850%3100%40 min
2010141029%5100%28 min
2011231822%475%35 min
2012271737%475%12 min
201310640%0
201411555%6100%24 min
2015141214%1669%25 min
2016241921%1385%11 min
20178538%1080%21 min
20185180%30%
201914936%580%7 min
202012925%90%
202110640%367%31 min
2022272219%1385%16 min
202310100%1718%27 min
202417947%2662%20 min
2025362725%3566%25 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200920100%0
201011827%3100%40 min
2011220%0
2012330%1100%14 min
20134325%0
20144250%0
20159722%4100%95 min
20166517%1100%46 min
2017330%475%111 min
20183233%0
20197529%4100%132 min
20203167%10%
202111918%786%27 min
20229544%863%64 min
20236433%683%44 min
2024440%9100%136 min
2025191237%1250%71 min

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 23, 8:42 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningRLX5 hr
Sep 23, 8:18 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningRLX5 hr
Sep 23, 7:12 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLX3 hr
Sep 23, 4:44 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLX4 hr
Sep 23, 11:37 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLX9 hr
Sep 21, 7:38 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLX2 hr
Sep 21, 6:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX34 min
Sep 20, 9:54 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningRLX3 hr
Sep 20, 7:20 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLX3 hr
Sep 5, 8:49 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX41 min
Sep 4, 2:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX33 min
Aug 16, 1:16 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningRLX10 hr

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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.