Alert archive / West Virginia / High Wind Watches
High Wind Watches in West Virginia, 2023
5 high wind watches in 2023. 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 high wind watches reaches back to 2005.
High Wind Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Watches
- 5
- Busiest month
- March5 high wind watches
- Busiest day
- March 30, 20234 high wind 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 4:25 AM EST | High Wind Watch | LWX | Grant, Mineral, Pendleton | 8 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:29 AM EDT | High Wind Watch | RLX | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge and 25 more | 34 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:40 AM EDT | High Wind Watch | LWX | Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral and 2 more | 35 hr |
| Mar 30, 1:45 PM EDT | High Wind Watch | PBZ | Brooke, Marion, Marshall, Monongalia, Ohio, Wetzel | 24 hr |
| Mar 30, 2:47 PM EDT | High Wind Watch | RNK | Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Summers | 21 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Grant County2
- Mineral County2
- Pendleton County2
- Barbour County1
- Boone County1
- Braxton County1
- Calhoun County1
- Clay County1
- Doddridge County1
- Fayette County1
- Gilmer County1
- Harrison County1
- Jackson County1
- Kanawha County1
- Lewis County1
- Lincoln County1
- Logan County1
- McDowell County1
- Mingo County1
- Nicholas County1
- Pleasants County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Putnam County1
- Raleigh County1
- Randolph County1
- Ritchie County1
- Roane County1
- Taylor County1
- Tyler County1
- Upshur County1
- Webster County1
- Wirt County1
- Wood County1
- Wyoming County1
- Berkeley County1
- Hampshire County1
- Hardy County1
- Jefferson County1
- Morgan County1
- Brooke 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.