Alert archive / West Virginia

Weather alerts in Ohio County, West Virginia

2,586 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Ohio County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
2,586
Warnings
617
Watches
554
Advisories
460
Busiest year
2011163 alerts
Average year
63over 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 Ohio County fell inside a tornado warning, and 53% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200910100%0
20162150%0
2018110%0
20215420%0
20223167%0
20232150%0
202420100%0
202510100%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008131023%0
200911827%5100%12 min
2010161225%743%19 min
201112833%425%46 min
2012131115%4100%30 min
201316156%1883%22 min
2014660%3100%27 min
2015880%10100%9 min
20168713%9100%15 min
201714140%1377%17 min
201813128%11100%23 min
2019151127%10%
2020131115%580%13 min
2021171324%5100%15 min
2022201430%1587%14 min
20239722%250%16 min
202410730%3100%32 min
2025161413%1385%23 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2009220%0
2010110%0
201110100%0
2013110%1100%91 min
2015110%1100%2 min
20162150%0
2017330%7100%118 min
20183233%10%
20194325%1100%43 min
2020330%3100%65 min
20214325%4100%38 min
20222150%0
202310100%0
2024220%3100%247 min
20258713%27100%61 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 20, 3:22 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningPBZ5 hr
Sep 20, 1:17 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningPBZ5 hr
Sep 3, 7:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ51 min
Sep 3, 5:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ46 min
Aug 20, 12:43 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningPBZ3 hr
Aug 20, 11:00 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningPBZ11 hr
Aug 20, 9:40 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZ3 hr
Aug 20, 8:18 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZ3 hr
Aug 16, 3:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ50 min
Aug 16, 2:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ43 min
Aug 11, 1:18 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZ3 hr
Aug 10, 11:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ24 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.