Alert archive / West Virginia / Mesoscale Discussions / 2017
Mesoscale Discussions in West Virginia, May 2017
16 mesoscale discussions in May 2017. 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 mesoscale discussions reaches back to 2003.
Mesoscale Discussions by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 16
- Busiest day
- May 1, 20173 mesoscale discussions
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 11:59 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Brooke, Calhoun, Clay and 26 more | 2 hr |
| May 1, 2:29 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Nicholas, Pendleton, Pocahontas and 3 more | 2 hr |
| May 1, 4:36 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Grant, Mineral | 84 min |
| May 5, 4:07 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Braxton, Harrison, Lewis, Marion, Monongalia and 5 more | 113 min |
| May 5, 6:15 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Berkeley, Jefferson | 90 min |
| May 11, 1:58 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | McDowell | 3 hr |
| May 18, 4:35 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brooke, Hancock, Ohio | 85 min |
| May 19, 3:36 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jefferson | 114 min |
| May 19, 5:50 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brooke, Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison, Jackson and 14 more | 55 min |
| May 25, 12:59 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jefferson | 61 min |
| May 27, 1:50 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Cabell, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan and 9 more | 85 min |
| May 27, 6:11 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Mercer, Monroe, Summers | 64 min |
| May 27, 8:07 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge, Gilmer and 13 more | 83 min |
| May 30, 12:03 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hampshire, Mineral | 2 hr |
| May 30, 5:56 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jefferson | 64 min |
| May 31, 2:05 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brooke, Doddridge, Hancock, Marshall, Mason, Ohio and 6 more | 85 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Pleasants County5
- Ritchie County5
- Wirt County5
- Wood County5
- Brooke County4
- Doddridge County4
- Jackson County4
- Lewis County4
- Ohio County4
- Roane County4
- Tyler County4
- Jefferson County4
- Mason County4
- Braxton County3
- Calhoun County3
- Gilmer County3
- Hancock County3
- Harrison County3
- Kanawha County3
- Marion County3
- Marshall County3
- Monongalia County3
- Putnam County3
- Randolph County3
- Taylor County3
- Webster County3
- Wetzel County3
- Barbour County2
- Boone County2
- Clay County2
- Nicholas County2
- Preston County2
- Upshur County2
- Mercer County2
- Monroe County2
- Summers County2
- Mineral County2
- Cabell County2
- Lincoln County2
- Wayne County2
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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.