Alert archive / West Virginia

Weather alerts in Taylor County, West Virginia

2,167 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Taylor County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
2,167
Warnings
424
Watches
522
Advisories
372
Busiest year
2011144 alerts
Average year
53over 41 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20085340%2100%33 min
200910730%743%21 min
20106517%4100%22 min
2011141214%6100%19 min
20126517%250%4 min
20137614%425%17 min
20144250%3100%17 min
20154325%2100%44 min
20166517%1493%13 min
2017440%1100%15 min
20184250%3100%22 min
201912558%4100%32 min
20207529%580%4 min
20216517%367%5 min
2022660%1457%9 min
2023330%450%22 min
20244325%743%28 min
2025990%786%9 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20082150%1100%123 min
20115340%1100%21 min
2012110%0
2013660%1080%75 min
20143167%0
20153233%0
2016010%
20172150%1100%56 min
20183233%2100%58 min
20194175%425%5 min
2020110%1100%66 min
20212150%0
20224325%0
2023110%2100%37 min
2024330%5100%163 min
2025220%0

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

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.

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 12, 3:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX18 min
Sep 4, 3:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX56 min
Sep 4, 2:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX66 min
Sep 4, 1:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX55 min
Sep 3, 10:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX53 min
Sep 3, 9:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX43 min
Aug 17, 9:00 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningRLX13 hr
Aug 17, 8:56 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningRLX13 hr
Aug 17, 4:20 PM EDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatRLX3 hr
Aug 17, 4:07 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLX5 hr
Aug 17, 3:32 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLX5 hr
Aug 16, 7:46 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningRLX6 hr

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.