Alert archive / West Virginia / Putnam County

Weather alerts in Putnam County, West Virginia, 2017

79 weather alerts in 2017, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Putnam County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2017. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
79
Warnings
13
Watches
12
Advisories
11
Busiest month
July23 alerts
Busiest day
March 1, 20179 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 Putnam County in 2017 had a tornado report inside them.

Putnam County, 2017

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings10100%0
Severe thunderstorm warnings550%6100%20 min
Flash flood warnings5420%2100%59 min

Each office's whole area, 2017

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Charleston, WV: tornado warnings19384%850%6 min
NWS Charleston, WV: severe thunderstorm warnings1128128%26467%18 min
NWS Charleston, WV: flash flood warnings563734%11388%108 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 4, 3:10 PM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryRLX37 hr
Jan 10, 9:45 PM ESTWind AdvisoryRLX3 hr
Feb 20, 1:14 AM ESTDense Fog AdvisoryRLX10 hr
Feb 24, 8:49 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC116 min
Feb 25, 3:00 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementRLX30 min
Feb 28, 11:28 AM ESTFlash Flood WatchRLX28 hr
Mar 1, 2:32 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC88 min
Mar 1, 6:28 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Mar 1, 6:48 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr
Mar 1, 8:28 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC92 min
Mar 1, 9:16 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX29 min
Mar 1, 9:26 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX49 min
Mar 1, 9:33 AM ESTTornado WarningRLX27 min
Mar 1, 9:41 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX34 min
Mar 1, 3:56 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Mar 1, 11:34 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementRLX3 hr
Mar 17, 9:03 AM EDTFreezing Rain AdvisoryRLX3 hr
Mar 22, 10:08 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLX7 min
Mar 26, 3:00 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Apr 5, 7:19 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Apr 5, 9:24 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLX66 min
Apr 5, 10:35 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLX55 min
Apr 7, 3:42 AM EDTFreeze WarningRLX29 hr
Apr 11, 7:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLX46 min
Apr 16, 3:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLX26 min
Apr 27, 3:28 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Apr 28, 11:19 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC116 min
May 1, 11:59 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
May 1, 1:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLX30 min
May 2, 4:40 AM EDTWind AdvisoryRLX13 hr
May 7, 2:44 AM EDTFrost AdvisoryRLX30 hr
May 11, 4:59 AM EDTFlash Flood WatchRLX42 hr
May 19, 8:22 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLX53 min
May 27, 4:14 AM EDTFlash Flood WatchRLX39 hr
May 27, 1:50 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC85 min
May 27, 4:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
May 27, 7:28 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLX3 hr
May 27, 8:07 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC83 min
Jun 5, 6:27 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLX63 min
Jun 13, 10:09 AM EDTFlash Flood WatchRLX8 hr
Jun 13, 12:18 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jun 14, 2:20 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jun 22, 12:17 PM EDTFlash Flood WatchRLX40 hr
Jun 23, 8:00 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLX7 hr
Jun 23, 8:26 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLX4 hr
Jun 23, 8:35 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLX4 hr
Jul 7, 1:07 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC53 min
Jul 7, 1:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Jul 7, 3:35 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC85 min
Jul 7, 6:34 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC86 min
Jul 7, 8:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX44 min
Jul 14, 3:10 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLX35 min
Jul 14, 3:40 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLX35 min
Jul 20, 2:27 PM EDTHeat AdvisoryRLX22 hr
Jul 21, 11:03 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC57 min
Jul 21, 11:29 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLX31 min
Jul 22, 12:59 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLX31 min
Jul 22, 1:31 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLX29 min
Jul 22, 11:59 AM EDTFlash Flood WatchRLX28 hr
Jul 22, 3:18 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 22, 3:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Jul 22, 7:37 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC83 min
Jul 22, 11:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX26 min
Jul 27, 10:45 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLX30 min
Jul 27, 1:37 PM EDTFlash Flood WatchRLX30 hr
Jul 28, 1:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLX2 hr
Jul 28, 1:58 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLX62 min
Jul 28, 2:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLX58 min
Jul 28, 2:31 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLX3 hr
Aug 4, 11:38 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Aug 22, 12:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Aug 22, 2:44 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC91 min
Aug 22, 4:39 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC66 min
Sep 5, 5:50 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLX55 min
Oct 16, 11:10 AM EDTFrost AdvisoryRLX23 hr
Oct 17, 2:34 PM EDTFrost AdvisoryRLX18 hr
Oct 25, 3:26 AM EDTFrost AdvisoryRLX31 hr
Oct 26, 2:43 PM EDTFrost AdvisoryRLX18 hr
Oct 29, 2:44 PM EDTFreeze WarningRLX19 hr

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

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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.