Alert archive / West Virginia / Raleigh County

Weather alerts in Raleigh County, West Virginia, 2012

82 weather alerts in 2012, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Raleigh County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2012. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
82
Warnings
23
Watches
11
Advisories
0
Busiest month
July35 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.

Raleigh County, 2012

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings191237%1560%21 min
Flash flood warnings4325%0

Each office's whole area, 2012

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Charleston, WV: tornado warnings11373%3100%27 min
NWS Charleston, WV: severe thunderstorm warnings17710242%32668%24 min
NWS Charleston, WV: flash flood warnings412344%7080%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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Feb 24, 12:44 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX46 min
Feb 29, 1:37 PM ESTTornado WatchSPC7 hr
Feb 29, 3:35 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX55 min
Feb 29, 4:18 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC87 min
Feb 29, 6:01 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementRLX3 hr
Feb 29, 7:30 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC30 min
Mar 2, 10:29 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX46 min
Mar 2, 4:19 PM ESTTornado Watch PDSSPC6 hr
Mar 2, 7:57 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementRLX3 hr
Mar 2, 8:16 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLX119 min
Mar 2, 8:29 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX31 min
Mar 2, 8:56 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLX2 hr
Mar 2, 10:28 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLX5 hr
Mar 19, 3:42 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC93 min
Mar 21, 1:22 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC113 min
Mar 24, 2:31 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC59 min
Mar 24, 3:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr
Mar 28, 12:43 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Mar 28, 2:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Mar 28, 4:37 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC113 min
Apr 4, 1:31 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC89 min
Apr 26, 2:57 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLX93 min
Apr 26, 5:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX35 min
Apr 26, 6:35 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLX40 min
Apr 28, 9:37 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLX23 min
May 22, 4:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLX46 min
May 22, 5:27 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLX48 min
Jun 1, 1:55 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLX65 min
Jun 4, 8:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLX20 min
Jun 22, 4:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX51 min
Jun 29, 6:03 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC87 min
Jun 29, 6:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Jun 29, 7:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX56 min
Jun 29, 7:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX58 min
Jun 29, 7:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX63 min
Jun 29, 7:51 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC114 min
Jun 30, 7:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX36 min
Jun 30, 7:39 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Jul 1, 8:32 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC88 min
Jul 1, 9:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr
Jul 1, 9:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX60 min
Jul 1, 10:26 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC94 min
Jul 1, 10:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX19 min
Jul 1, 11:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX26 min
Jul 5, 11:14 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC91 min
Jul 5, 11:37 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jul 5, 12:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX59 min
Jul 5, 12:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX43 min
Jul 5, 1:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLX32 min
Jul 8, 1:29 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC61 min
Jul 8, 1:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Jul 8, 4:21 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC54 min
Jul 8, 5:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX65 min
Jul 8, 5:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX52 min
Jul 14, 4:58 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLX32 min
Jul 18, 12:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLX60 min
Jul 18, 12:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLX59 min
Jul 18, 2:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX38 min
Jul 19, 3:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jul 19, 4:21 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLX54 min
Jul 19, 5:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLX46 min
Jul 19, 7:17 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC88 min
Jul 23, 1:26 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 24, 12:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Jul 24, 1:52 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLX53 min
Jul 24, 1:52 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC53 min
Jul 24, 2:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLX15 min
Jul 24, 2:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX24 min
Jul 24, 3:25 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC95 min
Jul 26, 6:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jul 30, 3:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLX61 min
Jul 31, 2:31 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLX59 min
Jul 31, 5:07 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLX113 min
Aug 10, 12:20 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC85 min
Aug 24, 5:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLX55 min
Sep 8, 6:00 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLX75 min
Sep 28, 9:15 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLX75 min
Oct 18, 3:07 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC83 min
Oct 18, 4:32 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRLX43 min
Oct 29, 2:51 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC6 hr
Oct 30, 4:34 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC4 hr
Oct 30, 1:02 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC5 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.