Alert archive / West Virginia / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in West Virginia, 2004
9 tornado watches in 2004. 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 2004. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 9
- Busiest month
- September4 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- September 8, 20042 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 27, 7:55 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge and 19 more | 5 hr |
| May 27, 10:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Fayette, Greenbrier, Lincoln, Logan, McDowell and 7 more | 6 hr |
| May 31, 12:40 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 39 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 14, 12:50 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jefferson | 6 hr |
| Sep 8, 12:50 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Pendleton | 6 hr |
| Sep 8, 6:40 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Hampshire, Jefferson, Morgan | 5 hr |
| Sep 17, 3:50 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Hampshire, Jefferson, Morgan | 4 hr |
| Sep 17, 6:50 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Jefferson | 5 hr |
| Nov 24, 6:25 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Mason | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Jefferson County4
- Mason County3
- Berkeley County3
- Barbour County2
- Braxton County2
- Cabell County2
- Calhoun County2
- Clay County2
- Doddridge County2
- Gilmer County2
- Harrison County2
- Jackson County2
- Kanawha County2
- Lewis County2
- Marion County2
- Pleasants County2
- Preston County2
- Putnam County2
- Randolph County2
- Ritchie County2
- Roane County2
- Taylor County2
- Tyler County2
- Upshur County2
- Webster County2
- Wirt County2
- Wood County2
- Boone County2
- Fayette County2
- Greenbrier County2
- Lincoln County2
- Logan County2
- McDowell County2
- Mercer County2
- Mingo County2
- Monroe County2
- Nicholas County2
- Raleigh County2
- Summers County2
- Wyoming County2
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.