Alert archive / West Virginia

Weather alerts in Brooke County, West Virginia

2,669 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Brooke County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
2,669
Warnings
686
Watches
531
Advisories
473
Busiest year
2011158 alerts
Average year
65over 41 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 Brooke County fell inside a tornado warning, and 53% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
201030100%0
20162150%0
202010100%0
2021550%0
202210100%0
20242150%0
202510100%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008141029%250%24 min
20098625%0
2010201620%333%28 min
201112742%2100%18 min
2012171512%367%13 min
201318176%650%38 min
201411827%4100%19 min
201512118%7100%5 min
20169544%30%
201713128%4100%29 min
201815147%475%11 min
2019211910%11100%13 min
202014137%8100%24 min
2021231822%4100%10 min
2022141029%0
2023141121%2100%47 min
2024181328%1100%19 min
2025201620%7100%16 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2009110%1100%43 min
2012010%
2013220%0
2015110%0
20163167%0
2017330%1100%89 min
20183233%2100%57 min
20193233%1100%114 min
2020330%0
20215420%2100%121 min
2022110%0
20233167%0
20244325%3100%197 min
20253233%10%

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 20, 3:22 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningPBZ5 hr
Sep 20, 2:48 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZ2 hr
Sep 4, 2:40 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZ3 hr
Sep 3, 7:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ51 min
Sep 3, 7:51 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZ2 hr
Sep 3, 6:11 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZ6 hr
Sep 3, 5:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ46 min
Sep 3, 5:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ50 min
Aug 20, 12:51 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningPBZ3 hr
Aug 20, 12:43 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningPBZ3 hr
Aug 20, 11:00 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningPBZ11 hr
Aug 20, 9:40 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZ3 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.