Extreme Cold Watches in West Virginia
19 extreme cold watches since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of extreme cold watches reaches back to 2005.
Extreme Cold Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Extreme Cold Watches
- 19
- Busiest year
- 202612 extreme cold watches
- Average year
- 10over 2 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
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Greenbrier County6
- Grant County5
- Mineral County5
- Pendleton County5
- Mercer County4
- Monroe County4
- Pocahontas County4
- Randolph County4
- Summers County4
- Tucker County4
- Preston County3
- Barbour County2
- Boone County2
- Braxton County2
- Brooke County2
- Cabell County2
- Calhoun County2
- Clay County2
- Doddridge County2
- Fayette County2
- Gilmer County2
- Hancock County2
- Harrison County2
- Jackson County2
- Kanawha County2
- Lewis County2
- Lincoln County2
- Logan County2
- McDowell County2
- Marion County2
- Marshall County2
- Mason County2
- Mingo County2
- Monongalia County2
- Nicholas County2
- Ohio County2
- Pleasants County2
- Putnam County2
- Raleigh County2
- Ritchie County2
The latest extreme cold watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 1:07 PM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | LWX | Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral and 2 more | 13 hr |
| Feb 5, 2:58 AM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | LWX | Grant, Mineral, Pendleton | 10 hr |
| Feb 5, 2:09 AM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | PBZ | Preston, Tucker | 10 hr |
| Jan 30, 12:40 PM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | PBZ | Tucker | 11 hr |
| Jan 30, 11:23 AM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | LWX | Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Mineral, Pendleton | 14 hr |
| Jan 30, 11:14 AM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph | 13 hr |
| Jan 29, 2:49 PM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | RNK | Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Summers | 35 hr |
| Jan 25, 12:04 PM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | RNK | Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Summers | 12 hr |
| Jan 25, 11:57 AM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | PBZ | Brooke, Hancock, Marion, Marshall, Monongalia, Ohio and 3 more | 12 hr |
| Jan 25, 11:53 AM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | LWX | Grant, Mineral, Pendleton | 11 hr |
| Jan 25, 9:06 AM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | RLX | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 28 more | 15 hr |
| Jan 18, 1:33 PM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | RNK | Greenbrier | 13 hr |
Nearby
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.