Freeze Watches in West Virginia
240 freeze 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 freeze watches reaches back to 2005.
Freeze Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Freeze Watches
- 240
- Busiest year
- 201232 freeze watches
- Average year
- 11over 21 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.
- Jefferson County55
- Morgan County53
- Berkeley County52
- Grant County44
- Mineral County42
- Ritchie County40
- Tyler County40
- Pleasants County39
- Hardy County37
- Harrison County37
- Wirt County37
- Wood County37
- Pendleton County37
- Doddridge County36
- Jackson County36
- Calhoun County35
- Hampshire County35
- Lewis County35
- Roane County35
- Gilmer County34
- Taylor County34
- Clay County33
- Braxton County32
- Mason County32
- Mingo County32
- Wyoming County31
- Boone County31
- Logan County31
- Wayne County31
- McDowell County30
- Monroe County30
- Lincoln County30
- Upshur County29
- Cabell County29
- Kanawha County29
- Putnam County29
- Barbour County28
- Summers County28
- Hancock County27
- Mercer County26
The latest freeze watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 1:20 PM EDT | Freeze Watch | PBZ | Tucker | 23 hr |
| May 10, 12:32 PM EDT | Freeze Watch | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph | 24 hr |
| May 10, 12:27 PM EDT | Freeze Watch | LWX | Grant, Mineral, Pendleton | 24 hr |
| May 1, 1:25 PM EDT | Freeze Watch | RLX | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 28 more | 23 hr |
| May 1, 12:53 PM EDT | Freeze Watch | PBZ | Monongalia, Preston, Tucker | 24 hr |
| May 1, 12:06 PM EDT | Freeze Watch | LWX | Grant, Mineral, Pendleton | 24 hr |
| Apr 29, 1:11 PM EDT | Freeze Watch | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph | 13 hr |
| Apr 19, 1:27 PM EDT | Freeze Watch | RNK | Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Summers | 11 hr |
| Apr 19, 12:17 PM EDT | Freeze Watch | PBZ | Brooke, Hancock, Marion, Marshall, Monongalia, Ohio and 3 more | 13 hr |
| Apr 19, 11:53 AM EDT | Freeze Watch | RLX | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 28 more | 13 hr |
| Apr 18, 11:59 PM EDT | Freeze Watch | LWX | Berkeley, Jefferson, Morgan | 24 hr |
| Apr 18, 2:04 PM EDT | Freeze Watch | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph, Webster | 10 hr |
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.