Alert archive / West Virginia / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in West Virginia, 1998
9 tornado watches 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 9
- Busiest month
- June4 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- June 2, 19983 tornado 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 7:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Mason | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 8:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Clay, Fayette, Kanawha and 9 more | 5 hr |
| May 24, 7:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 36 more | 6 hr |
| May 31, 6:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Brooke, Cabell, Calhoun and 36 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 2, 3:10 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay, Fayette and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 2, 4:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Brooke, Doddridge, Grant, Hampshire, Hancock and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 2, 6:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Jefferson | 6 hr |
| Jun 14, 11:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Logan, Mingo | 5 hr |
| Aug 25, 4:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Braxton, Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison, Jackson and 12 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Mason County5
- Boone County5
- Braxton County5
- Cabell County4
- Clay County4
- Kanawha County4
- Lincoln County4
- Logan County4
- Mingo County4
- Nicholas County4
- Putnam County4
- Wayne County4
- Calhoun County4
- Doddridge County4
- Gilmer County4
- Harrison County4
- Jackson County4
- Lewis County4
- Marion County4
- Pleasants County4
- Ritchie County4
- Roane County4
- Tyler County4
- Upshur County4
- Wetzel County4
- Wood County4
- Fayette County3
- Raleigh County3
- Wyoming County3
- Barbour County3
- Grant County3
- Mineral County3
- Monongalia County3
- Preston County3
- Randolph County3
- Taylor County3
- Tucker County3
- Webster County3
- Wirt County3
- Marshall County3
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.