Alert archive / West Virginia / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in West Virginia, 2000
3 tornado watches in 2000. 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 2000. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest month
- May2 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 23, 20001 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 7:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge and 23 more | 5 hr |
| May 27, 2:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Mercer, Monroe, Summers | 6 hr |
| Nov 9, 5:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge and 25 more | 3 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Braxton County2
- Cabell County2
- Calhoun County2
- Clay County2
- Doddridge County2
- Gilmer County2
- Jackson County2
- Kanawha County2
- Mason County2
- Nicholas County2
- Pleasants County2
- Putnam County2
- Ritchie County2
- Roane County2
- Tyler County2
- Wetzel County2
- Wirt County2
- Wood County2
- Mercer County2
- Summers County2
- Barbour County1
- Harrison County1
- Lewis County1
- Marion County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Preston County1
- Randolph County1
- Taylor County1
- Tucker County1
- Upshur County1
- Webster County1
- Monroe County1
- Boone County1
- Fayette County1
- Lincoln County1
- Logan County1
- McDowell County1
- Marshall County1
- Mingo County1
- Ohio County1
3 more counties
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive19992001
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.