Alert archive / West Virginia / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in West Virginia, 2003
10 tornado watches in 2003. 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 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 10
- Busiest month
- May7 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 10, 20033 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 5, 8:35 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Wayne | 5 hr |
| May 5, 6:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Mason | 5 hr |
| May 9, 2:05 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Greenbrier, Monroe | 6 hr |
| May 10, 12:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cabell | 5 hr |
| May 10, 1:20 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Cabell, Clay, Fayette, Greenbrier, Kanawha and 13 more | 6 hr |
| May 10, 6:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Cabell, Clay, Fayette, Greenbrier, Kanawha and 13 more | 6 hr |
| May 11, 11:45 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brooke, Hancock, Marshall, Monongalia, Ohio, Wetzel | 5 hr |
| Sep 27, 12:40 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Hancock | 5 hr |
| Nov 12, 3:20 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jackson | 6 hr |
| Nov 19, 8:50 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral and 2 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Wayne County3
- Greenbrier County3
- Monroe County3
- Cabell County3
- Boone County2
- Clay County2
- Fayette County2
- Kanawha County2
- Lincoln County2
- Logan County2
- McDowell County2
- Mercer County2
- Mingo County2
- Nicholas County2
- Putnam County2
- Raleigh County2
- Summers County2
- Webster County2
- Wyoming County2
- Hancock County2
- Mason County1
- Brooke County1
- Marshall County1
- Monongalia County1
- Ohio County1
- Wetzel County1
- Jackson County1
- Berkeley County1
- Grant County1
- Hampshire County1
- Hardy County1
- Jefferson County1
- Mineral County1
- Morgan County1
- Pendleton 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.