Alert archive / West Virginia

Weather alerts in Mason County, West Virginia

2,961 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Mason County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
2,961
Warnings
934
Watches
572
Advisories
403
Busiest year
2026200 alerts
Average year
76over 39 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 Mason County fell inside a tornado warning, and 73% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200910100%0
201110100%0
201610100%0
20174175%0
202010100%0
202310100%0
20244325%0
202520100%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008302033%580%18 min
200919858%475%33 min
2010191332%11100%14 min
2011291934%1100%46 min
2012241538%757%46 min
201310910%2100%20 min
2014121017%580%17 min
2015201430%683%27 min
2016211624%888%16 min
2017131023%8100%29 min
201810820%888%18 min
201922209%1173%18 min
202010820%667%6 min
202114564%2100%21 min
2022302130%2357%29 min
2023151127%989%23 min
2024261831%9100%18 min
2025252116%667%10 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2009110%0
20102150%10%
20113233%0
20124325%5100%62 min
2013220%3100%114 min
2014110%0
2015770%4100%78 min
2016220%0
2017660%0
20182150%0
2019110%1100%114 min
20219633%560%109 min
20227614%0
20232150%0
20247529%0
202511555%1100%4 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 23, 2:06 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningRLX3 hr
Sep 23, 11:15 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLX3 hr
Sep 21, 4:44 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningRLX48 hr
Sep 20, 11:22 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLX5 hr
Sep 20, 10:45 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLX6 hr
Sep 20, 9:05 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningRLX5 hr
Sep 20, 8:23 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningRLX11 hr
Sep 20, 6:06 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningRLX17 hr
Sep 20, 5:30 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLX4 hr
Sep 20, 4:38 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLX4 hr
Sep 20, 1:42 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLX4 hr
Sep 20, 12:18 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX42 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.