Alert archive / West Virginia / Tornado Watches / 2011
Tornado Watches in West Virginia, April 2011
9 tornado watches in April 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 April 2011. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 9
- Busiest day
- April 27, 20114 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Boone County4
- Cabell County4
- Fayette County4
- Kanawha County4
- Lincoln County4
- Logan County4
- McDowell County4
- Mingo County4
- Putnam County4
- Raleigh County4
- Wayne County4
- Wyoming County4
- Berkeley County4
- Grant County4
- Hampshire County4
- Hardy County4
- Jefferson County4
- Mineral County4
- Morgan County4
- Pendleton County4
- Greenbrier County3
- Mercer County3
- Monroe County3
- Summers County3
- Barbour County3
- Braxton County3
- Calhoun County3
- Clay County3
- Doddridge County3
- Gilmer County3
- Harrison County3
- Jackson County3
- Lewis County3
- Mason County3
- Nicholas County3
- Pleasants County3
- Randolph County3
- Ritchie County3
- Roane County3
- Taylor County3
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.