Alert archive / West Virginia / McDowell County
Weather alerts in McDowell County, West Virginia, 2024
62 weather alerts in 2024, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
McDowell County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 62
- Warnings
- 11
- Watches
- 12
- Advisories
- 16
- Busiest month
- January9 alerts
- Busiest day
- May 26, 20244 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
McDowell County, 2024
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 4 | 2 | 50% | 11 | 27% | 40 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 2 | 1 | 50% | 1 | 100% | 36 min |
Each office's whole area, 2024
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Charleston, WV: tornado warnings | 20 | 6 | 70% | 22 | 64% | 12 min |
| NWS Charleston, WV: severe thunderstorm warnings | 202 | 122 | 40% | 613 | 66% | 23 min |
| NWS Charleston, WV: flash flood warnings | 51 | 29 | 43% | 131 | 81% | 121 min |
An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.
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.
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 | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 5, 4:45 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | RLX | 37 hr |
| Jan 8, 3:00 AM EST | Wind Advisory | RLX | 62 hr |
| Jan 11, 1:20 PM EST | Wind Advisory | RLX | 3 days |
| Jan 14, 2:55 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | RLX | 11 hr |
| Jan 14, 2:17 PM EST | Winter Storm Warning | RLX | 44 hr |
| Jan 16, 2:40 AM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | RLX | 43 hr |
| Jan 17, 2:35 PM EST | Winter Storm Watch | RLX | 13 hr |
| Jan 18, 3:28 AM EST | Winter Storm Warning | RLX | 64 hr |
| Jan 26, 2:13 PM EST | Flood Watch | RLX | 44 hr |
| Feb 12, 11:22 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 23 min |
| Feb 28, 8:15 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Feb 28, 10:35 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 55 min |
| Feb 28, 11:34 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 26 min |
| Apr 2, 11:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | 44 min |
| Apr 11, 4:06 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Apr 15, 1:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Apr 15, 2:55 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Apr 15, 9:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | 32 min |
| Apr 15, 10:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 34 min |
| Apr 16, 2:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 30 min |
| Apr 21, 12:18 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | RLX | 21 hr |
| Apr 22, 2:05 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | RLX | 19 hr |
| May 1, 3:43 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | RLX | 6 hr |
| May 4, 2:44 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | 4 hr |
| May 7, 9:17 AM EDT | Flood Watch | RLX | 45 hr |
| May 7, 4:24 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | 3 hr |
| May 7, 5:05 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 85 min |
| May 26, 1:13 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 92 min |
| May 26, 1:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
| May 26, 3:25 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 95 min |
| May 26, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | 49 min |
| Jun 26, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Jun 26, 4:35 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 115 min |
| Jun 26, 6:43 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jun 26, 9:21 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 24 min |
| Jun 30, 2:16 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 119 min |
| Jun 30, 5:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 15 min |
| Jul 5, 8:56 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 12:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jul 9, 3:21 AM EDT | Heat Advisory | RLX | 17 hr |
| Jul 30, 7:47 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 13 min |
| Aug 1, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
| Aug 1, 10:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 30 min |
| Aug 2, 1:43 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Aug 2, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | 33 min |
| Aug 2, 5:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 34 min |
| Aug 31, 1:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Sep 24, 1:55 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 65 min |
| Sep 25, 12:21 PM EDT | Flood Watch | RLX | 55 hr |
| Sep 26, 12:59 PM EDT | High Wind Warning | RLX | 31 hr |
| Sep 27, 12:05 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | 10 hr |
| Oct 10, 1:39 AM EDT | Frost Advisory | RLX | 31 hr |
| Oct 15, 3:10 AM EDT | Frost Advisory | RLX | 30 hr |
| Oct 16, 12:51 PM EDT | Freeze Warning | RLX | 20 hr |
| Oct 17, 1:12 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | RLX | 20 hr |
| Nov 20, 1:56 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | RLX | 3 days |
| Nov 29, 8:13 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | RLX | 49 hr |
| Dec 4, 3:00 AM EST | Wind Advisory | RLX | 37 hr |
| Dec 18, 12:16 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 29 min |
| Dec 19, 8:13 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | RLX | 41 hr |
| Dec 28, 1:13 PM EST | Wind Advisory | RLX | 33 hr |
| Dec 31, 2:35 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 115 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 4 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 6 |
| Tornado Watch | 1 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 13 |
| Special Weather Statement | 10 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Warning | 1 |
| Flash Flood Warning | 2 |
| Flood Watch | 3 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Storm Warning | 2 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 2 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 4 |
| Heat | |
| Heat Advisory | 1 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 1 |
| Frost Advisory | 5 |
| Wind Chill Advisory | 1 |
| Wind and dust | |
| High Wind Warning | 1 |
| Wind Advisory | 4 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 1 |
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.