Alert archive / West Virginia / Raleigh County
Weather alerts in Raleigh County, West Virginia, 2015
75 weather alerts in 2015, 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 2015. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 75
- Warnings
- 14
- Watches
- 10
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest month
- June24 alerts
- Busiest day
- April 8, 20155 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, 2015
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 7 | 6 | 14% | 7 | 71% | 43 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 3 | 3 | 0% | 4 | 75% | 109 min |
Each office's whole area, 2015
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Charleston, WV: tornado warnings | 5 | 1 | 80% | 4 | 25% | 4 min |
| NWS Charleston, WV: severe thunderstorm warnings | 124 | 89 | 28% | 313 | 84% | 28 min |
| NWS Charleston, WV: flash flood warnings | 70 | 55 | 21% | 214 | 89% | 98 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 11, 8:50 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 6 hr |
| Feb 12, 12:53 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 112 min |
| Feb 14, 1:33 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 4 hr |
| Feb 16, 9:51 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 6 hr |
| Feb 16, 4:30 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 6 hr |
| Feb 21, 4:20 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 5 hr |
| Feb 21, 10:32 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 5 hr |
| Feb 21, 4:37 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 4 hr |
| Feb 21, 8:27 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 3 hr |
| Feb 21, 10:44 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 6 hr |
| Feb 22, 9:28 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | 6 hr |
| Mar 4, 6:43 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | 36 hr |
| Mar 4, 6:56 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | 36 hr |
| Mar 5, 7:58 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 5 hr |
| Mar 5, 11:55 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 6 hr |
| Apr 3, 6:10 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 95 min |
| Apr 3, 7:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | 3 hr |
| Apr 4, 12:22 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 83 min |
| Apr 8, 11:52 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 83 min |
| Apr 8, 12:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Apr 8, 1:51 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 84 min |
| Apr 8, 2:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 61 min |
| Apr 8, 3:22 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 83 min |
| Apr 10, 6:16 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 59 min |
| Apr 14, 9:09 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | 8 hr |
| Apr 25, 10:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 58 min |
| May 11, 6:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | 39 min |
| May 11, 7:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 43 min |
| Jun 8, 1:10 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jun 8, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jun 8, 3:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 34 min |
| Jun 8, 3:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 34 min |
| Jun 8, 4:24 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 96 min |
| Jun 16, 12:15 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jun 16, 1:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 42 min |
| Jun 17, 12:40 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jun 18, 2:28 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jun 20, 12:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 69 min |
| Jun 21, 2:52 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 113 min |
| Jun 21, 3:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Jun 23, 1:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jun 25, 7:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Jun 26, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Jun 26, 9:58 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 62 min |
| Jun 26, 11:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 54 min |
| Jun 27, 12:39 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 66 min |
| Jun 27, 12:40 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 50 min |
| Jun 30, 12:55 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Jun 30, 1:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jun 30, 3:48 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 117 min |
| Jun 30, 6:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 45 min |
| Jun 30, 7:08 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 67 min |
| Jun 30, 10:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 50 min |
| Jul 5, 5:57 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 4:31 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jul 9, 1:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 80 min |
| Jul 9, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | 57 min |
| Jul 10, 10:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jul 10, 4:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 54 min |
| Jul 10, 4:46 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 119 min |
| Jul 13, 12:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jul 13, 4:07 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 83 min |
| Jul 13, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | 55 min |
| Jul 13, 5:45 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jul 13, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | 50 min |
| Jul 14, 3:21 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | 6 hr |
| Jul 14, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jul 14, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | 62 min |
| Jul 14, 6:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | 55 min |
| Jul 14, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | 61 min |
| Jul 21, 5:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 66 min |
| Sep 4, 8:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 33 min |
| Oct 9, 2:48 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 57 min |
| Dec 14, 9:31 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 4 hr |
| Dec 18, 8:02 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | 88 min |
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 | 7 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 10 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 29 |
| Special Weather Statement | 22 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Warning | 4 |
| Flash Flood Warning | 3 |
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.