Alert archive / West Virginia / Pocahontas County
Weather alerts in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, 2012
66 weather alerts in 2012, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Pocahontas County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 66
- Warnings
- 12
- Watches
- 9
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest month
- July17 alerts
- Busiest day
- June 29, 20126 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
Pocahontas County, 2012
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 11 | 5 | 55% | 2 | 50% | 9 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 1 | 1 | 0% | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2012
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Charleston, WV: tornado warnings | 11 | 3 | 73% | 3 | 100% | 27 min |
| NWS Charleston, WV: severe thunderstorm warnings | 177 | 102 | 42% | 326 | 68% | 24 min |
| NWS Charleston, WV: flash flood warnings | 41 | 23 | 44% | 70 | 80% | 72 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 17, 3:33 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 27 min |
| Jan 27, 2:34 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 86 min |
| Feb 29, 1:37 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Feb 29, 4:17 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 58 min |
| Feb 29, 4:18 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 87 min |
| Feb 29, 6:01 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 3 hr |
| Feb 29, 7:30 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 30 min |
| Mar 2, 8:30 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 45 min |
| Mar 2, 8:56 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | 2 hr |
| Mar 2, 8:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | 34 min |
| Mar 19, 3:42 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 93 min |
| Mar 21, 1:22 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 113 min |
| Mar 24, 2:31 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 59 min |
| Mar 24, 3:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Mar 24, 4:16 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 59 min |
| Mar 24, 6:58 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 92 min |
| Mar 28, 12:43 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Mar 28, 2:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Mar 28, 3:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | 39 min |
| Mar 28, 4:37 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 113 min |
| Mar 28, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | 29 min |
| May 22, 1:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 2 hr |
| May 23, 1:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 54 min |
| May 23, 2:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 3 hr |
| May 27, 3:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 31 min |
| May 27, 3:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 25 min |
| May 27, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | 32 min |
| Jun 1, 1:03 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 87 min |
| Jun 1, 1:28 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Jun 1, 3:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 62 min |
| Jun 1, 3:35 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 55 min |
| Jun 1, 4:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 45 min |
| Jun 29, 6:03 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 87 min |
| Jun 29, 6:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jun 29, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | 62 min |
| Jun 29, 7:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | 58 min |
| Jun 29, 7:51 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 114 min |
| Jun 29, 7:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | 62 min |
| Jun 29, 8:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | 32 min |
| Jun 30, 7:39 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 8:32 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 88 min |
| Jul 1, 8:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | 65 min |
| Jul 1, 9:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Jul 1, 10:26 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 94 min |
| Jul 3, 5:58 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 12:47 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 88 min |
| Jul 8, 1:29 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 61 min |
| Jul 8, 1:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Jul 8, 4:21 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 54 min |
| Jul 19, 5:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 46 min |
| Jul 24, 12:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jul 24, 2:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 63 min |
| Jul 26, 1:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
| Jul 30, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | 26 min |
| Jul 30, 7:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | 24 min |
| Jul 30, 8:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 45 min |
| Jul 31, 3:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 28 min |
| Aug 14, 4:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 28 min |
| Aug 20, 12:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 59 min |
| Aug 20, 12:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 50 min |
| Oct 18, 5:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 23 min |
| Oct 18, 6:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 43 min |
| Oct 29, 2:51 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 6 hr |
| Oct 30, 1:02 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 5 hr |
| Dec 24, 10:34 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Dec 26, 6:46 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 4 hr |
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 | 11 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 7 |
| Tornado Watch | 2 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 25 |
| Special Weather Statement | 20 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 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.