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Tornado Warnings in West Virginia, 1998

41 tornado warnings in 1998. 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 tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Tornado Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1998. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
41
Busiest month
June28 tornado warnings
Busiest day
May 24, 199810 tornado warnings

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
Jan 8, 11:56 PM ESTTornado WarningRLXWood19 min
May 24, 5:17 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXLincoln28 min
May 24, 5:28 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXPutnam32 min
May 24, 6:06 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZMarshall24 min
May 24, 6:18 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXCabell, Wayne42 min
May 24, 6:27 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZMarshall33 min
May 24, 6:47 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXLincoln43 min
May 24, 7:12 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXCabell, Wayne48 min
May 24, 7:22 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZMonongalia38 min
May 24, 7:38 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXLincoln67 min
May 24, 7:53 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXTaylor52 min
Jun 2, 2:57 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXMason33 min
Jun 2, 3:15 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXPutnam30 min
Jun 2, 3:37 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXKanawha38 min
Jun 2, 3:53 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXBoone52 min
Jun 2, 4:16 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXKanawha14 min
Jun 2, 4:19 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXFayette, Raleigh41 min
Jun 2, 4:48 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKSummers62 min
Jun 2, 8:05 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXMineral45 min
Jun 2, 8:25 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXHampshire45 min
Jun 2, 9:31 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZPreston59 min
Jun 2, 10:01 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXHampshire, Mineral64 min
Jun 2, 10:34 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXHampshire, Mineral51 min
Jun 11, 4:55 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXWayne20 min
Jun 11, 5:33 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXLincoln, Wayne42 min
Jun 13, 2:37 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXJefferson48 min
Jun 16, 2:11 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXWayne19 min
Jun 16, 3:10 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKGreenbrier50 min
Jun 16, 3:20 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXCalhoun, Wirt35 min
Jun 16, 3:36 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXDoddridge34 min
Jun 16, 3:54 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXHarrison36 min
Jun 16, 6:08 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXBerkeley, Jefferson32 min
Jun 27, 7:57 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZMarshall48 min
Jun 27, 8:39 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZWetzel41 min
Jun 27, 8:55 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXTyler35 min
Jun 27, 9:17 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXDoddridge18 min
Jun 28, 12:57 AM EDTTornado WarningRLXWirt33 min
Jun 28, 1:13 AM EDTTornado WarningRLXRoane32 min
Jun 28, 8:40 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZBrooke60 min
Sep 7, 5:51 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZWetzel30 min
Sep 7, 5:58 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXHarrison32 min

By county

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

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. May 24, 199810tornado warnings
  2. June 2, 19987tornado warnings
  3. June 16, 19986tornado warnings
  4. June 3, 19985tornado warnings
  5. June 28, 19985tornado warnings
  6. June 11, 19982tornado warnings
  7. September 7, 19982tornado warnings
  8. January 9, 19981tornado warnings
  9. June 13, 19981tornado warnings
  10. June 27, 19981tornado warnings
  11. June 29, 19981tornado warnings

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.