Alert archive / West Virginia / Tornado Watches / 2002
Tornado Watches in West Virginia, May 2002
5 tornado watches in May 2002. 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 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 2, 20023 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 1, 9:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | McDowell | 4 hr |
| May 2, 9:45 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Clay, Fayette, Kanawha and 10 more | 4 hr |
| May 2, 2:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral and 4 more | 7 hr |
| May 9, 11:15 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Brooke, Cabell, Calhoun and 35 more | 5 hr |
| May 13, 1:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jefferson | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- McDowell County3
- Boone County2
- Braxton County2
- Cabell County2
- Clay County2
- Fayette County2
- Kanawha County2
- Lincoln County2
- Logan County2
- Mason County2
- Mingo County2
- Putnam County2
- Raleigh County2
- Roane County2
- Wayne County2
- Wyoming County2
- Jefferson County2
- Berkeley County1
- Grant County1
- Hampshire County1
- Hardy County1
- Mineral County1
- Morgan County1
- Pendleton County1
- Randolph County1
- Tucker County1
- Barbour County1
- Brooke County1
- Calhoun County1
- Doddridge County1
- Gilmer County1
- Hancock County1
- Harrison County1
- Jackson County1
- Lewis County1
- Marion County1
- Marshall County1
- Mercer County1
- Monongalia County1
- Nicholas 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.