Alert archive / West Virginia / Tornado Warnings
Tornado Warnings in West Virginia, 2024
31 tornado warnings in 2024. 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 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 31
- Busiest month
- April11 tornado warnings
- Busiest day
- April 2, 202410 tornado warnings
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
8 of 31 tornado warnings covering West Virginia in 2024 had a tornado report inside them; 16 of 26 tornado reports fell inside a warning, on average 14 minutes after it went out.
West Virginia, 2024
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 31 | 8 | 74% | 26 | 62% | 14 min |
Each office's whole area, 2024
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Baltimore/Washington: tornado warnings | 50 | 12 | 76% | 35 | 69% | 19 min |
| NWS Blacksburg, VA: tornado warnings | 72 | 5 | 93% | 23 | 26% | 17 min |
| NWS Pittsburgh, PA: tornado warnings | 37 | 14 | 62% | 58 | 60% | 10 min |
| NWS Charleston, WV: tornado warnings | 20 | 6 | 70% | 22 | 64% | 12 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 | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 7:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Marshall, Wetzel | 34 min |
| Mar 30, 7:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Pleasants, Ritchie, Tyler | 17 min |
| Apr 2, 10:27 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Cabell, Mason, Putnam, Wayne | 33 min |
| Apr 2, 10:30 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Lincoln, Wayne | 30 min |
| Apr 2, 10:51 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Boone, Cabell, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln, Mason and 2 more | 24 min |
| Apr 2, 11:03 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Gilmer, Jackson, Mason, Ritchie, Roane and 1 more | 42 min |
| Apr 2, 11:15 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Fayette, Kanawha, Nicholas and 1 more | 30 min |
| Apr 2, 11:22 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Gilmer, Ritchie, Wirt | 23 min |
| Apr 2, 11:27 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Boone, Fayette, Kanawha, Nicholas, Raleigh | 36 min |
| Apr 2, 4:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Fayette, Nicholas | 30 min |
| Apr 2, 5:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 26 min |
| Apr 2, 5:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 33 min |
| Apr 12, 12:20 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Berkeley | 25 min |
| May 8, 12:55 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Brooke, Hancock | 35 min |
| May 8, 1:26 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Hancock | 34 min |
| May 9, 5:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Marshall, Ohio | 30 min |
| May 11, 9:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Berkeley, Morgan | 21 min |
| May 26, 4:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Cabell, Mason, Putnam | 30 min |
| May 26, 6:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Brooke, Marshall | 13 min |
| Jun 23, 3:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Marshall, Ohio | 29 min |
| Jun 23, 6:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Marion, Monongalia, Wetzel | 33 min |
| Jun 26, 8:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Monongalia, Preston | 31 min |
| Aug 8, 10:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Berkeley, Jefferson | 37 min |
| Sep 25, 4:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Greenbrier, Summers | 32 min |
| Sep 25, 4:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 37 min |
| Sep 25, 5:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 34 min |
| Sep 25, 5:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 23 min |
| Sep 25, 5:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 25 min |
| Sep 25, 6:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 32 min |
| Sep 25, 7:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Mercer | 37 min |
| Sep 25, 8:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Mercer, Summers | 39 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Greenbrier County5
- Marshall County4
- Mason County4
- Ritchie County3
- Cabell County3
- Putnam County3
- Kanawha County3
- Roane County3
- Fayette County3
- Nicholas County3
- Pocahontas County3
- Berkeley County3
- Wetzel County2
- Wayne County2
- Lincoln County2
- Boone County2
- Jackson County2
- Calhoun County2
- Gilmer County2
- Wirt County2
- Brooke County2
- Hancock County2
- Ohio County2
- Monongalia County2
- Summers County2
- Mercer County2
- Pleasants County1
- Tyler County1
- Braxton County1
- Clay County1
- Doddridge County1
- Raleigh County1
- Morgan County1
- Marion County1
- Preston County1
- Jefferson County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.