Alert archive / West Virginia / Preston County
Weather alerts in Preston County, West Virginia, 2014
56 weather alerts in 2014, 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 2014. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 56
- Warnings
- 14
- Watches
- 7
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest month
- May12 alerts
- Busiest day
- May 14, 20146 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 warnings covering Preston County in 2014 had a tornado report inside them.
Preston County, 2014
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 1 | 0 | 100% | 0 | ||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 8 | 6 | 25% | 16 | 63% | 18 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 2 | 1 | 50% | 1 | 100% | 21 min |
Each office's whole area, 2014
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Pittsburgh, PA: tornado warnings | 9 | 2 | 78% | 6 | 67% | 6 min |
| NWS Pittsburgh, PA: severe thunderstorm warnings | 147 | 106 | 28% | 399 | 80% | 22 min |
| NWS Pittsburgh, PA: flash flood warnings | 15 | 10 | 33% | 31 | 87% | 51 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 6, 1:01 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 59 min |
| Jan 6, 2:08 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 52 min |
| Jan 11, 5:32 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 43 min |
| Jan 21, 5:04 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jan 25, 6:55 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 50 min |
| Feb 2, 11:21 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 5 hr |
| Feb 3, 4:44 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 4 hr |
| Feb 4, 9:45 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 6 hr |
| Feb 16, 6:30 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 3 hr |
| Mar 12, 11:43 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| May 7, 8:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 60 min |
| May 14, 11:58 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 32 min |
| May 14, 12:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 23 min |
| May 14, 1:20 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | 3 hr |
| May 14, 1:48 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 117 min |
| May 14, 5:50 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 85 min |
| May 14, 7:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
| May 16, 12:07 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | PBZ | 10 hr |
| May 27, 1:43 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 62 min |
| May 27, 2:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| May 27, 5:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 34 min |
| May 28, 2:28 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Jun 8, 11:37 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 53 min |
| Jun 8, 1:20 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jun 8, 4:51 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 114 min |
| Jun 11, 1:32 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 118 min |
| Jun 11, 2:59 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jun 11, 6:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 61 min |
| Jun 11, 6:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 32 min |
| Jun 18, 9:06 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 54 min |
| Jun 18, 9:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Jun 18, 11:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 66 min |
| Jun 19, 12:18 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 87 min |
| Jun 25, 1:49 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jul 8, 1:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jul 8, 3:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 66 min |
| Jul 8, 3:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | 42 min |
| Jul 8, 4:00 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 90 min |
| Jul 8, 4:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 45 min |
| Jul 8, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 55 min |
| Jul 10, 3:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 22 min |
| Jul 13, 1:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jul 13, 6:18 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 87 min |
| Jul 27, 1:44 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
| Jul 27, 5:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 39 min |
| Jul 27, 6:16 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | PBZ | 3 hr |
| Aug 12, 12:26 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Aug 23, 2:04 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | PBZ | 3 hr |
| Aug 23, 3:01 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | 3 hr |
| Sep 2, 2:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 52 min |
| Sep 2, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 30 min |
| Sep 6, 2:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 35 min |
| Sep 21, 1:20 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 115 min |
| Oct 7, 6:12 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 93 min |
| Dec 12, 10:38 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 112 min |
| Dec 24, 8:37 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 53 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordForecastThe radar archive20132015
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.