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

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings10100%0
Severe thunderstorm warnings8625%1663%18 min
Flash flood warnings2150%1100%21 min

Each office's whole area, 2014

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Pittsburgh, PA: tornado warnings9278%667%6 min
NWS Pittsburgh, PA: severe thunderstorm warnings14710628%39980%22 min
NWS Pittsburgh, PA: flash flood warnings151033%3187%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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 6, 1:01 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ59 min
Jan 6, 2:08 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ52 min
Jan 11, 5:32 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ43 min
Jan 21, 5:04 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC6 hr
Jan 25, 6:55 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ50 min
Feb 2, 11:21 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC5 hr
Feb 3, 4:44 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC4 hr
Feb 4, 9:45 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC6 hr
Feb 16, 6:30 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ3 hr
Mar 12, 11:43 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
May 7, 8:30 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ60 min
May 14, 11:58 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ32 min
May 14, 12:52 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ23 min
May 14, 1:20 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZ3 hr
May 14, 1:48 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC117 min
May 14, 5:50 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC85 min
May 14, 7:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC4 hr
May 16, 12:07 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningPBZ10 hr
May 27, 1:43 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC62 min
May 27, 2:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
May 27, 5:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ34 min
May 28, 2:28 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Jun 8, 11:37 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC53 min
Jun 8, 1:20 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jun 8, 4:51 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC114 min
Jun 11, 1:32 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC118 min
Jun 11, 2:59 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr
Jun 11, 6:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ61 min
Jun 11, 6:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ32 min
Jun 18, 9:06 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC54 min
Jun 18, 9:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr
Jun 18, 11:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ66 min
Jun 19, 12:18 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC87 min
Jun 25, 1:49 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 8, 1:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jul 8, 3:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ66 min
Jul 8, 3:33 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZ42 min
Jul 8, 4:00 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC90 min
Jul 8, 4:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ45 min
Jul 8, 4:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ55 min
Jul 10, 3:53 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ22 min
Jul 13, 1:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jul 13, 6:18 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC87 min
Jul 27, 1:44 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC9 hr
Jul 27, 5:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ39 min
Jul 27, 6:16 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningPBZ3 hr
Aug 12, 12:26 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Aug 23, 2:04 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningPBZ3 hr
Aug 23, 3:01 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZ3 hr
Sep 2, 2:23 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ52 min
Sep 2, 2:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ30 min
Sep 6, 2:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ35 min
Sep 21, 1:20 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC115 min
Oct 7, 6:12 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC93 min
Dec 12, 10:38 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ112 min
Dec 24, 8:37 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ53 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.

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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.