Alert archive / West Virginia / Preston County
Weather alerts in Preston County, West Virginia, 2008
53 weather alerts in 2008, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Preston County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 53
- Warnings
- 20
- Watches
- 10
- Advisories
- 6
- Busiest month
- June26 alerts
- Busiest day
- June 16, 20087 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
0 of 1 tornado reports fell inside a warning.
Preston County, 2008
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 1 | 0% | |||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 16 | 9 | 44% | 6 | 50% | 28 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 1 | 0 | 100% | 1 | 0% |
Each office's whole area, 2008
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Pittsburgh, PA: tornado warnings | 8 | 2 | 75% | 5 | 40% | 11 min |
| NWS Pittsburgh, PA: severe thunderstorm warnings | 179 | 102 | 43% | 169 | 83% | 23 min |
| NWS Pittsburgh, PA: flash flood warnings | 23 | 10 | 57% | 18 | 83% | 65 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 6, 4:49 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 86 min |
| Feb 6, 6:09 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 66 min |
| Feb 6, 6:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 36 min |
| Mar 4, 7:34 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 56 min |
| Mar 5, 6:08 AM EST | River Flood Warning | PBZ | 7 hr |
| Mar 19, 8:41 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | PBZ | 4 hr |
| May 31, 4:10 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| May 31, 7:27 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| May 31, 8:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 53 min |
| May 31, 10:20 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| May 31, 10:25 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| May 31, 4:28 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 62 min |
| Jun 3, 11:04 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | 8 hr |
| Jun 4, 9:18 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jun 4, 10:48 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | PBZ | 4 hr |
| Jun 4, 12:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 55 min |
| Jun 4, 12:36 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | 6 hr |
| Jun 10, 1:25 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 95 min |
| Jun 16, 9:09 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 12 hr |
| Jun 16, 11:46 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 59 min |
| Jun 16, 12:54 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jun 16, 1:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 47 min |
| Jun 16, 3:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 31 min |
| Jun 16, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 40 min |
| Jun 16, 4:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jun 16, 8:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 66 min |
| Jun 16, 8:25 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 65 min |
| Jun 16, 8:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 41 min |
| Jun 22, 12:16 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 89 min |
| Jun 22, 1:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jun 22, 4:28 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 92 min |
| Jun 23, 2:55 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 95 min |
| Jun 26, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 57 min |
| Jun 28, 5:08 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | 3 hr |
| Jun 28, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Jun 28, 9:53 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | 3 hr |
| Jun 29, 4:14 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 91 min |
| Jun 30, 11:01 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 119 min |
| Jul 6, 3:01 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | 100 min |
| Jul 7, 1:20 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 55 min |
| Jul 20, 4:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 53 min |
| Jul 20, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 64 min |
| Jul 21, 9:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 55 min |
| Jul 21, 10:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 67 min |
| Jul 22, 3:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
| Jul 23, 1:28 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 62 min |
| Jul 31, 5:33 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | 2 hr |
| Jul 31, 7:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 67 min |
| Aug 2, 1:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 38 min |
| Aug 2, 1:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Aug 2, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 25 min |
| Dec 16, 11:56 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 6 hr |
| Dec 24, 6:40 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | 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 | 16 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 6 |
| Tornado Watch | 4 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 17 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Warning | 1 |
| Flash Flood Warning | 1 |
| River Flood Warning | 2 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 6 |
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.