Alert archive / West Virginia / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in West Virginia, 2011
14 tornado watches in 2011. 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 2011. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 14
- Busiest month
- April9 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 27, 20114 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 5:47 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Brooke, Cabell, Calhoun and 37 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 28, 8:57 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Grant, Greenbrier, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson and 6 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 23, 1:13 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Brooke, Cabell, Calhoun and 37 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 23, 3:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Summers | 6 hr |
| Apr 9, 2:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Cabell, Fayette, Greenbrier, Kanawha, Lincoln and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 11, 12:47 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 32 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 1:29 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral and 2 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 20, 1:59 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 28 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 27, 1:23 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 27, 3:10 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Marion, Monongalia, Preston, Tucker | 7 hr |
| Apr 27, 5:44 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 28 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 27, 6:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Grant, Greenbrier, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 28, 12:41 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Grant, Greenbrier, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson and 7 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 23, 1:37 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Cabell, Clay, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln and 6 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Boone County7
- Cabell County7
- Kanawha County7
- Lincoln County7
- Logan County7
- Mingo County7
- Putnam County7
- Wayne County7
- Clay County6
- Fayette County6
- Jackson County6
- McDowell County6
- Mason County6
- Raleigh County6
- Roane County6
- Wyoming County6
- Barbour County5
- Braxton County5
- Calhoun County5
- Doddridge County5
- Gilmer County5
- Harrison County5
- Lewis County5
- Nicholas County5
- Pleasants County5
- Pocahontas County5
- Randolph County5
- Ritchie County5
- Taylor County5
- Tyler County5
- Upshur County5
- Webster County5
- Wirt County5
- Wood County5
- Berkeley County5
- Grant County5
- Greenbrier County5
- Hampshire County5
- Hardy County5
- Jefferson County5
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive20102012
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.