Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings / 2018
Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, May 2018
25 flash flood warnings in May 2018. 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 May 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Flash Flood Warnings
- 25
- Busiest day
- May 27, 20184 flash flood warnings
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 7, 8:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lincoln | 107 min |
| May 10, 3:24 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lewis | 115 min |
| May 14, 3:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Monongalia | 3 hr |
| May 14, 4:03 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Marion, Monongalia, Preston | 3 hr |
| May 15, 8:20 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Jefferson | 3 hr |
| May 17, 6:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Monroe, Summers | 6 hr |
| May 19, 9:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Marion | 2 hr |
| May 21, 5:02 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 4 hr |
| May 21, 8:03 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Braxton, Lewis, Nicholas, Pocahontas, Randolph, Upshur and 1 more | 3 hr |
| May 22, 5:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Webster | 3 hr |
| May 22, 9:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pleasants, Tyler | 3 hr |
| May 22, 11:04 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Pleasants, Ritchie, Tyler, Wood | 3 hr |
| May 23, 12:21 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Braxton, Calhoun, Gilmer, Ritchie, Roane, Wirt and 1 more | 3 hr |
| May 26, 11:14 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Mercer | 5 hr |
| May 26, 5:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Kanawha, Putnam | 6 hr |
| May 26, 6:33 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph | 89 min |
| May 27, 5:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Mercer | 3 hr |
| May 27, 5:57 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Mineral | 4 hr |
| May 27, 6:16 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Kanawha, Lincoln, Putnam | 3 hr |
| May 27, 6:42 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Mercer | 4 hr |
| May 27, 8:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Randolph | 3 hr |
| May 27, 9:25 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lewis, Upshur | 3 hr |
| May 28, 2:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph | 2 hr |
| May 28, 6:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Cabell, Wayne | 3 hr |
| May 31, 4:41 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Putnam | 3 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Randolph County4
- Lewis County3
- Pocahontas County3
- Mercer County3
- Putnam County3
- Lincoln County2
- Monongalia County2
- Marion County2
- Braxton County2
- Upshur County2
- Webster County2
- Pleasants County2
- Tyler County2
- Ritchie County2
- Wood County2
- Kanawha County2
- Preston County1
- Jefferson County1
- Monroe County1
- Summers County1
- Greenbrier County1
- Nicholas County1
- Doddridge County1
- Calhoun County1
- Gilmer County1
- Roane County1
- Wirt County1
- Grant County1
- Hampshire County1
- Hardy County1
- Mineral County1
- Cabell County1
- Wayne County1
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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.