Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings
Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 1997
125 flash flood warnings in 1997. 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 flash flood warnings reaches back to 1986.
Flash Flood Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Flash Flood Warnings
- 125
- Busiest month
- March56 flash flood warnings
- Busiest day
- March 2, 199728 flash flood warnings
Over time
By month
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 7:12 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lincoln, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 7:49 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 8:16 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Mason | 5 hr |
| Mar 1, 8:32 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Mason | 5 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:10 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:15 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:37 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wayne | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:37 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Mason | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:37 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln, Putnam | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:15 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Clay, Roane | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 11:37 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Webster | 5 hr |
| Mar 1, 1:50 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Clay, Kanawha, Roane | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 1:50 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson, Mason, Putnam | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 1:50 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lincoln | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 3:18 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Gilmer | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 4:13 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Braxton | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 5:49 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Mason | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 5:49 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:15 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson, Mason | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 12:55 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Marshall, Wetzel | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 1:08 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Ritchie, Tyler | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 1:08 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wirt, Wood | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 1:08 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pleasants | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 2:14 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Cabell, Putnam | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 2:47 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Monongalia, Preston | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 2:47 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Marion | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 3:06 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Kanawha, Roane | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 3:06 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lincoln, Wayne | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 3:06 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Gilmer | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 3:58 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson, Mason | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 5:53 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Monongalia, Preston | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 5:53 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Marshall, Wetzel | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 5:53 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Marion | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wayne | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Putnam | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Roane, Wirt | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Calhoun | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Ritchie | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Mason | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Clay | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Braxton, Gilmer | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pleasants, Tyler, Wood | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 10:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Marion, Monongalia, Wetzel | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 10:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Marshall | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 2:40 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Marion, Marshall, Wetzel | 7 hr |
| Mar 3, 8:41 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Gilmer | 6 hr |
| Mar 3, 9:03 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boone | 5 hr |
| Mar 3, 9:03 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Calhoun | 5 hr |
| Mar 3, 9:38 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Putnam | 6 hr |
| Mar 3, 10:01 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 6 hr |
| Mar 3, 10:31 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Upshur | 5 hr |
| Mar 3, 10:43 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 4 hr |
| Mar 3, 11:14 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 6 hr |
| Mar 3, 11:38 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Pleasants, Ritchie, Tyler | 6 hr |
| Mar 3, 12:22 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lincoln | 5 hr |
| May 19, 6:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Marshall, Ohio | 3 hr |
| May 25, 12:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Brooke, Ohio | 4 hr |
| May 25, 1:47 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Hancock | 6 hr |
| May 25, 5:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Brooke | 3 hr |
| May 25, 7:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Brooke | 8 hr |
| May 25, 9:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Harrison | 116 min |
| Jun 1, 5:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 6:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Kanawha, Putnam | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 7:16 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Fayette, Raleigh, Wyoming | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 8:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boone | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 8:36 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson | 4 hr |
| Jun 1, 8:41 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wood | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 8:47 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | McDowell | 4 hr |
| Jun 1, 9:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Roane | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 9:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boone, Fayette, Kanawha, Putnam, Raleigh | 4 hr |
| Jun 1, 9:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wyoming | 4 hr |
| Jun 1, 9:52 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lincoln | 4 hr |
| Jun 1, 10:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Logan | 4 hr |
| Jun 2, 3:22 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Grant | 2 hr |
| Jun 2, 2:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lewis | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 2:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Upshur | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 2:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Wetzel | 4 hr |
| Jun 2, 3:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Gilmer | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 3:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Ritchie | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 3:36 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Barbour | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 4:04 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Nicholas | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 4:20 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wirt | 4 hr |
| Jun 2, 5:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lewis | 4 hr |
| Jun 2, 5:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pleasants | 4 hr |
| Jun 2, 5:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson, Kanawha, Roane | 4 hr |
| Jun 2, 5:33 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Harrison, Lewis, Upshur | 5 hr |
| Jun 2, 5:33 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Barbour | 5 hr |
| Jun 2, 5:42 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Tyler | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 5:53 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 6:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Randolph | 4 hr |
| Jun 2, 8:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wayne | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 9:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas, Webster | 4 hr |
| Jun 2, 9:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lewis | 4 hr |
| Jun 3, 5:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 2 hr |
| Jun 3, 6:57 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boone | 2 hr |
| Jun 18, 4:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Preston, Tucker | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 12:02 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Taylor | 4 hr |
| Jun 26, 12:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Preston | 4 hr |
| Jun 26, 3:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Logan | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 11:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson | 3 hr |
| Jul 3, 12:24 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Mingo | 3 hr |
| Jul 3, 12:41 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | McDowell | 3 hr |
| Jul 23, 4:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Tucker | 4 hr |
| Jul 23, 6:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Upshur | 3 hr |
| Jul 23, 7:33 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Pendleton | 117 min |
| Jul 23, 8:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 3 hr |
| Jul 23, 8:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 57 min |
| Jul 23, 8:59 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Gilmer | 3 hr |
| Jul 27, 8:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wood | 3 hr |
| Jul 27, 8:24 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wood | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 8:39 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Preston | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 6:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Preston | 3 hr |
| Aug 9, 6:57 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Webster | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 6:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Ohio | 4 hr |
| Aug 17, 11:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Tyler | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 11:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Tyler | 3 hr |
| Aug 19, 9:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wayne | 4 hr |
| Aug 19, 9:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boone, Lincoln, Logan | 4 hr |
| Aug 19, 9:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Mingo | 4 hr |
| Aug 19, 10:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | McDowell, Wyoming | 4 hr |
| Aug 19, 11:03 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Kanawha, Raleigh | 4 hr |
| Nov 7, 1:40 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Berkeley, Jefferson | 4 hr |
| Nov 7, 1:40 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Hampshire, Hardy, Morgan | 4 hr |
| Nov 7, 5:25 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Berkeley, Jefferson, Morgan | 2 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Kanawha County12
- Jackson County11
- Lincoln County8
- Mason County8
- Putnam County7
- Wayne County6
- Roane County6
- Gilmer County6
- Tyler County6
- Preston County6
- Marshall County5
- Wetzel County5
- Wood County5
- Boone County5
- Clay County4
- Calhoun County4
- Ritchie County4
- Pleasants County4
- Marion County4
- Upshur County4
- Pocahontas County4
- Lewis County4
- Webster County3
- Braxton County3
- Doddridge County3
- Wirt County3
- Monongalia County3
- Ohio County3
- Brooke County3
- Raleigh County3
- Wyoming County3
- McDowell County3
- Logan County3
- Cabell County2
- Greenbrier County2
- Harrison County2
- Fayette County2
- Barbour County2
- Tucker County2
- Mingo County2
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.