Alert archive / West Virginia

Weather alerts in Greenbrier County, West Virginia

2,871 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Greenbrier County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
2,871
Warnings
657
Watches
334
Advisories
557
Busiest year
2025201 alerts
Average year
78over 37 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

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

From 2008 to 2025, of tornado reports in Greenbrier County fell inside a tornado warning, and 100% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200810100%0
201160100%0
201610100%0
201920100%0
202310100%0
202450100%0
202510100%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008191332%1173%19 min
2009161319%1377%26 min
2010181233%1989%31 min
2011322425%5469%33 min
201214750%2181%19 min
20136267%1100%44 min
20147357%933%7 min
20155420%1250%40 min
201615940%1968%21 min
2017550%771%21 min
20186433%771%13 min
201916944%1070%37 min
202013931%1275%25 min
20218625%7100%24 min
2022211719%4180%33 min
202312120%15100%25 min
202414843%2286%23 min
202515940%2060%29 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20083167%2100%117 min
200920100%0
20105340%5100%117 min
20112150%0
20124325%978%50 min
20134325%4100%114 min
201410100%10%
2015220%475%142 min
20167614%20100%209 min
2017110%0
2018330%1090%47 min
20202150%3100%109 min
20213167%475%128 min
20223233%7100%129 min
202430100%10%
2025440%3100%174 min

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 21, 4:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK63 min
Sep 21, 1:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK66 min
Sep 5, 9:21 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK39 min
Sep 4, 5:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK62 min
Sep 4, 4:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK54 min
Aug 16, 9:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK67 min
Aug 16, 8:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK60 min
Aug 16, 5:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK57 min
Aug 16, 2:39 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningRNK111 min
Aug 16, 8:34 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRNK6 hr
Aug 14, 3:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK50 min
Aug 11, 7:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK65 min

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.