Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in West Virginia, 2002
31 severe thunderstorm watches in 2002. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of severe thunderstorm watches reaches back to 1997.
Severe Thunderstorm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 31
- Busiest month
- May12 severe thunderstorm watches
- Busiest day
- May 2, 20025 severe thunderstorm watches
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By month
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 | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 2:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Mason | 5 hr |
| Mar 9, 5:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brooke, Hancock, Marshall, Ohio | 5 hr |
| Apr 19, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brooke, Hancock, Marshall, Ohio, Wetzel | 6 hr |
| Apr 21, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Cabell, Fayette, Greenbrier, Kanawha, Lincoln and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 28, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge and 34 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 28, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge and 34 more | 4 hr |
| May 2, 4:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barbour, Brooke, Doddridge, Harrison, Marion, Marshall and 11 more | 4 hr |
| May 2, 12:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fayette, Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Nicholas, Pendleton and 4 more | 5 hr |
| May 2, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | McDowell | 7 hr |
| May 2, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Mercer, Monroe, Summers | 6 hr |
| May 2, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Mercer, Monroe, Summers | 5 hr |
| May 9, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Grant, Greenbrier, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson and 8 more | 5 hr |
| May 12, 10:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brooke, Hancock, Marshall, Monongalia, Ohio, Pleasants and 2 more | 5 hr |
| May 12, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barbour, Berkeley, Braxton, Doddridge, Gilmer, Grant and 21 more | 6 hr |
| May 13, 10:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Greenbrier, McDowell, Mercer, Monroe, Summers | 5 hr |
| May 26, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Morgan | 6 hr |
| May 31, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brooke, Hancock, Marshall, Ohio | 6 hr |
| May 31, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Hampshire, Jefferson, Morgan | 6 hr |
| Jun 2, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | McDowell | 6 hr |
| Jun 4, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barbour, Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson and 10 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 5, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brooke, Hancock, Marshall, Ohio | 6 hr |
| Jun 5, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral, Morgan | 5 hr |
| Jun 5, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Mason, Pleasants, Wood | 4 hr |
| Jun 6, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Morgan | 6 hr |
| Jun 27, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brooke, Hancock, Marion, Marshall, Monongalia, Ohio and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 3, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Nicholas, Pocahontas, Raleigh and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 5, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Mercer | 6 hr |
| Jul 29, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brooke, Doddridge, Gilmer, Hancock, Marion, Marshall and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 5, 2:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barbour, Braxton, Brooke, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 23 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 5, 2:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 3, 3:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brooke, Hancock, Ohio | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Brooke County10
- Marshall County10
- Ohio County10
- Wetzel County9
- Mercer County9
- Monroe County9
- Hancock County8
- Summers County8
- Monongalia County8
- Pleasants County8
- Preston County8
- Tyler County8
- Berkeley County8
- Hampshire County8
- Jefferson County8
- Morgan County8
- Greenbrier County7
- Marion County7
- Mineral County7
- Pocahontas County7
- Tucker County7
- Hardy County7
- McDowell County6
- Nicholas County6
- Barbour County6
- Doddridge County6
- Grant County6
- Randolph County6
- Taylor County6
- Raleigh County5
- Gilmer County5
- Harrison County5
- Ritchie County5
- Upshur County5
- Webster County5
- Wirt County5
- Pendleton County5
- Fayette County4
- Putnam County4
- Braxton County4
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.