Alert archive / West Virginia / Flood Watches
Flood Watches in West Virginia, 2020
12 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 flood watches reaches back to 2005.
Flood Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Flood Watches
- 12
- Busiest month
- February3 flood watches
- Busiest day
- August 30, 20203 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 5, 3:26 AM EST | Flood Watch | RLX | Boone, Clay, Fayette, Kanawha, Logan, McDowell and 4 more | 39 hr |
| Feb 5, 4:46 AM EST | Flood Watch | RNK | Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Summers | 49 hr |
| Feb 11, 11:55 AM EST | Flood Watch | RLX | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 28 more | 19 min |
| Apr 28, 12:59 PM EDT | Flood Watch | RLX | Fayette, McDowell, Nicholas, Pocahontas, Raleigh, Randolph and 2 more | 47 hr |
| Apr 29, 4:24 AM EDT | Flood Watch | LWX | Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral and 2 more | 39 hr |
| Apr 29, 4:44 AM EDT | Flood Watch | RNK | Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Summers | 29 hr |
| Aug 30, 7:21 PM EDT | Flood Watch | LWX | Grant, Hardy, Pendleton | 26 hr |
| Aug 30, 7:29 PM EDT | Flood Watch | RLX | Fayette, Nicholas, Pocahontas, Raleigh, Randolph, Webster | 26 hr |
| Aug 30, 7:55 PM EDT | Flood Watch | RNK | Greenbrier, Monroe, Summers | 26 hr |
| Oct 28, 5:33 AM EDT | Flood Watch | RNK | Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Summers | 32 hr |
| Oct 28, 2:07 PM EDT | Flood Watch | RLX | Fayette, McDowell, Nicholas, Pocahontas, Raleigh, Randolph and 2 more | 24 hr |
| Oct 28, 3:05 PM EDT | Flood Watch | LWX | Pendleton | 25 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Fayette County5
- Nicholas County5
- Raleigh County5
- McDowell County4
- Wyoming County4
- Greenbrier County4
- Monroe County4
- Summers County4
- Pocahontas County4
- Randolph County4
- Webster County4
- Mercer County3
- Pendleton County3
- Boone County2
- Clay County2
- Kanawha County2
- Logan County2
- Mingo County2
- Grant County2
- Hardy County2
- Barbour County1
- Braxton County1
- Cabell County1
- Calhoun County1
- Doddridge County1
- Gilmer County1
- Harrison County1
- Jackson County1
- Lewis County1
- Lincoln County1
- Mason County1
- Pleasants County1
- Putnam County1
- Ritchie County1
- Roane County1
- Taylor County1
- Tyler County1
- Upshur County1
- Wayne County1
- Wirt County1
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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.