Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Watches
Flash Flood Watches in West Virginia, 2020
37 flash flood watches in 2020. 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 in 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Flash Flood Watches
- 37
- Busiest month
- August15 flash flood watches
- Busiest day
- May 27, 20203 flash flood watches
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 11, 12:14 PM EST | Flash Flood Watch | RLX | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 28 more | 48 hr |
| Feb 11, 12:59 PM EST | Flash Flood Watch | PBZ | Marion, Marshall, Monongalia, Ohio, Preston, Tucker and 1 more | 42 hr |
| Mar 12, 12:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RLX | Cabell, Lincoln, Mason, Putnam, Wayne | 14 hr |
| Apr 12, 4:09 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RNK | Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Summers | 27 hr |
| May 3, 2:19 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RLX | Boone, Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Fayette, Gilmer and 13 more | 20 hr |
| May 3, 7:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | LWX | Pendleton | 5 hr |
| May 17, 2:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RLX | Cabell, Jackson, Mason, Pleasants, Ritchie, Wayne and 2 more | 4 days |
| May 21, 3:48 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | LWX | Pendleton | 15 hr |
| May 27, 3:25 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RNK | Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Summers | 23 hr |
| May 27, 7:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RLX | Boone, Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge, Fayette and 12 more | 3 min |
| May 27, 7:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RLX | Boone, Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge, Fayette and 12 more | 11 hr |
| Jun 5, 3:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | LWX | Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Morgan and 1 more | 17 hr |
| Jun 5, 5:08 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RNK | Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Summers | 15 hr |
| Jun 19, 12:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | LWX | Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Mineral, Pendleton | 7 hr |
| Jun 20, 10:45 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | LWX | Grant, Hardy, Pendleton | 10 hr |
| Jun 20, 12:47 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RNK | Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Summers | 8 hr |
| Jun 23, 1:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | LWX | Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral and 1 more | 10 hr |
| Jul 22, 1:36 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | LWX | Jefferson | 4 hr |
| Jul 30, 12:22 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RLX | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 25 more | 20 hr |
| Jul 30, 10:01 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | LWX | Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Morgan and 1 more | 20 hr |
| Aug 1, 6:53 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | LWX | Berkeley, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Morgan | 7 hr |
| Aug 2, 4:55 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RNK | Mercer | 50 hr |
| Aug 2, 3:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | LWX | Berkeley, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Morgan | 45 hr |
| Aug 5, 10:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | LWX | Berkeley, Jefferson, Morgan | 25 hr |
| Aug 11, 3:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | LWX | Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral and 2 more | 52 hr |
| Aug 13, 1:49 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | LWX | Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Mineral | 19 hr |
| Aug 13, 2:50 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RNK | Mercer | 21 hr |
| Aug 14, 3:48 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RNK | Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Summers | 41 hr |
| Aug 14, 1:01 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RLX | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 27 more | 25 hr |
| Aug 14, 9:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | LWX | Pendleton | 16 hr |
| Aug 22, 12:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RNK | Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Summers | 12 hr |
| Aug 22, 12:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | LWX | Pendleton | 12 hr |
| Aug 22, 12:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph, Webster | 12 hr |
| Aug 28, 2:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RNK | Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Summers | 10 hr |
| Aug 28, 4:59 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | LWX | Pendleton | 11 hr |
| Sep 3, 2:34 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RLX | Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge and 17 more | 15 hr |
| Dec 23, 4:27 AM EST | Flash Flood Watch | LWX | Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral and 2 more | 47 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Pendleton County11
- Hardy County10
- Mercer County9
- Hampshire County9
- Jefferson County9
- Berkeley County8
- Grant County8
- Morgan County8
- Boone County7
- Braxton County7
- Calhoun County7
- Clay County7
- Gilmer County7
- Jackson County7
- Kanawha County7
- Lewis County7
- Ritchie County7
- Roane County7
- Webster County7
- Wirt County7
- Greenbrier County7
- Monroe County7
- Summers County7
- Cabell County6
- Doddridge County6
- Fayette County6
- McDowell County6
- Mason County6
- Nicholas County6
- Wayne County6
- Wyoming County6
- Lincoln County5
- Logan County5
- Mingo County5
- Pocahontas County5
- Putnam County5
- Raleigh County5
- Randolph County5
- Mineral County5
- Harrison County4
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.