Alert archive / West Virginia / Tornado Watches / 2000
Tornado Watches in West Virginia, May 2000
2 tornado watches in May 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 May 2000. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 2
- Busiest day
- May 23, 20001 tornado watches
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Barbour County1
- Braxton County1
- Cabell County1
- Calhoun County1
- Clay County1
- Doddridge County1
- Gilmer County1
- Harrison County1
- Jackson County1
- Kanawha County1
- Lewis County1
- Marion County1
- Mason County1
- Nicholas County1
- Pleasants County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Preston County1
- Putnam County1
- Randolph County1
- Ritchie County1
- Roane County1
- Taylor County1
- Tucker County1
- Tyler County1
- Upshur County1
- Webster County1
- Wetzel County1
- Wirt County1
- Wood County1
- Mercer County1
- Monroe County1
- Summers County1
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.