Flash Flood Watches in West Virginia
497 flash flood 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 flash flood watches reaches back to 2005.
Flash Flood Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Flash Flood Watches
- 497
- Busiest year
- 201848 flash flood watches
- Average year
- 31over 16 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.
- Braxton County126
- Lewis County124
- Gilmer County123
- Calhoun County121
- Jackson County121
- Roane County121
- Upshur County121
- Kanawha County119
- Putnam County119
- Ritchie County119
- Lincoln County118
- Wirt County118
- Harrison County117
- Mason County117
- Boone County116
- Cabell County116
- Doddridge County116
- Clay County115
- Wayne County114
- Barbour County113
- Wood County113
- Taylor County111
- Logan County110
- Mingo County110
- Pleasants County110
- Tyler County108
- McDowell County102
- Wyoming County102
- Mercer County93
- Hardy County91
- Summers County87
- Grant County83
- Jefferson County82
- Hampshire County81
- Monroe County80
- Berkeley County78
- Pendleton County76
- Morgan County75
- Mineral County72
- Marion County69
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.