Alert archive / West Virginia

Weather alerts in Pleasants County, West Virginia

2,515 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Pleasants County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
2,515
Warnings
558
Watches
564
Advisories
386
Busiest year
2026178 alerts
Average year
68over 37 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 Pleasants County fell inside a tornado warning, and 100% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
201010100%0
201520100%0
202110100%0
202310100%0
202410100%0
202510100%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200810730%2100%14 min
20097443%1100%28 min
2010550%1100%15 min
201112833%757%2 min
20129722%1100%22 min
2013330%0
20145260%1100%55 min
20159633%250%48 min
20167614%1100%27 min
20178713%633%11 min
20182150%0
2019141121%633%11 min
20208713%1100%3 min
202113838%1100%24 min
202215147%1100%8 min
2023141214%475%22 min
202411645%0
2025121017%0

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008110%0
20104250%1100%96 min
2012110%0
20137614%2100%26 min
20143167%0
2015440%0
2016330%0
20175420%0
20183167%1100%43 min
20197357%1100%15 min
202010100%0
2021550%0
20222150%0
20233233%0
20242150%0
202520100%0

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 21, 5:30 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningRLX7 hr
Sep 21, 2:35 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLX106 min
Sep 19, 6:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX48 min
Sep 13, 7:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX27 min
Sep 12, 5:24 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningRLX15 hr
Sep 12, 3:33 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLX111 min
Sep 4, 1:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX61 min
Sep 4, 1:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX43 min
Sep 3, 8:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX50 min
Sep 3, 3:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX33 min
Sep 3, 2:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX23 min
Aug 22, 6:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX49 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.