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Severe Thunderstorm Watches in West Virginia, 2016

22 severe thunderstorm watches in 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Watches
22
Busiest month
July7 severe thunderstorm watches
Busiest day
May 1, 20162 severe thunderstorm watches

Over time

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 26, 6:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 33 more6 hr
Apr 28, 4:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 30 more7 hr
May 1, 4:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBoone, Cabell, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan and 5 more6 hr
May 1, 7:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCGreenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Summers3 hr
May 2, 2:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBoone, Clay, Fayette, Greenbrier, Kanawha, Lincoln and 13 more8 hr
May 10, 6:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBoone, Cabell, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan and 7 more7 hr
Jun 5, 3:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCJefferson6 hr
Jun 16, 1:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarbour, Berkeley, Boone, Braxton, Brooke, Cabell and 48 more8 hr
Jun 21, 1:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBerkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral and 2 more9 hr
Jun 21, 2:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 27 more8 hr
Jun 23, 3:42 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBoone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge and 22 more4 hr
Jun 23, 3:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCGreenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Summers7 hr
Jul 4, 1:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBoone, Cabell, Clay, Fayette, Kanawha, Lincoln and 8 more7 hr
Jul 8, 1:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBoone, Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, McDowell and 6 more7 hr
Jul 8, 3:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCMercer, Monroe, Summers5 hr
Jul 18, 1:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBerkeley, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Morgan6 hr
Jul 25, 3:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBerkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral and 2 more6 hr
Jul 28, 1:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBerkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Morgan and 1 more11 hr
Jul 28, 2:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBraxton, Clay, Fayette, Greenbrier, McDowell, Mercer and 9 more10 hr
Aug 17, 2:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarbour, Berkeley, Boone, Braxton, Calhoun, Clay and 29 more5 hr
Sep 10, 3:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBrooke, Hancock, Marshall, Ohio6 hr
Oct 20, 3:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCMarion, Marshall, Monongalia, Preston, Wetzel7 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

15 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. May 1, 20162severe thunderstorm watches
  2. June 21, 20162severe thunderstorm watches
  3. June 23, 20162severe thunderstorm watches
  4. July 8, 20162severe thunderstorm watches
  5. July 28, 20162severe thunderstorm watches
  6. April 26, 20161severe thunderstorm watches
  7. April 28, 20161severe thunderstorm watches
  8. May 2, 20161severe thunderstorm watches
  9. May 10, 20161severe thunderstorm watches
  10. June 5, 20161severe thunderstorm watches
  11. June 16, 20161severe thunderstorm watches
  12. July 4, 20161severe thunderstorm watches

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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.