Alert archive / West Virginia

Weather alerts in Hardy County, West Virginia

2,743 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Hardy County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
2,743
Warnings
824
Watches
586
Advisories
653
Busiest year
2011207 alerts
Average year
67over 41 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 Hardy 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
201180100%0
201220100%0
201510100%0
201810100%0
201910100%0
202510100%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200815847%560%25 min
20098538%1100%8 min
2010191616%4100%28 min
2011332718%1493%9 min
2012312326%1788%18 min
2013201050%786%26 min
2014291934%1493%23 min
20159544%3100%15 min
201612925%1090%24 min
201711736%20%
201812925%367%19 min
2019271159%8100%15 min
2020241442%1753%24 min
202119953%1155%19 min
2022271833%2157%16 min
202311109%888%19 min
202414936%3100%19 min
2025171324%757%10 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20106350%1100%25 min
201110730%580%129 min
20123167%1100%27 min
20138363%333%77 min
20142150%0
201520100%0
201620100%0
20183167%0
20213233%2100%15 min
202210100%0
202310100%0
202430100%0
20256350%4100%43 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 4, 2:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX43 min
Sep 3, 10:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX41 min
Aug 22, 6:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX22 min
Aug 22, 5:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX48 min
Aug 22, 5:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX30 min
Aug 11, 4:08 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWX3 hr
Aug 10, 2:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX63 min
Aug 10, 2:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX51 min
Aug 10, 2:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX53 min
Aug 10, 1:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX57 min
Aug 8, 1:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX42 min
Jul 21, 7:42 PM EDTTornado WarningLWX33 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.