Alert archive / West Virginia / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in West Virginia, 2012
6 tornado watches in 2012. 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 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest month
- February2 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- February 29, 20122 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 29, 1:37 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Brooke, Cabell, Calhoun and 33 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 29, 3:43 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Summers | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 4:19 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge and 22 more | 6 hr |
| May 1, 6:31 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer and 16 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 1, 1:28 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Grant, Greenbrier, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson and 10 more | 8 hr |
| Sep 18, 10:54 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Jefferson, Morgan | 9 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Braxton County3
- Cabell County3
- Calhoun County3
- Doddridge County3
- Gilmer County3
- Harrison County3
- Jackson County3
- Lewis County3
- Mason County3
- Pleasants County3
- Putnam County3
- Ritchie County3
- Roane County3
- Tyler County3
- Wirt County3
- Wood County3
- Barbour County2
- Boone County2
- Clay County2
- Fayette County2
- Kanawha County2
- Lincoln County2
- Logan County2
- McDowell County2
- Marshall County2
- Mingo County2
- Nicholas County2
- Ohio County2
- Pocahontas County2
- Raleigh County2
- Randolph County2
- Taylor County2
- Upshur County2
- Wayne County2
- Wetzel County2
- Wyoming County2
- Greenbrier County2
- Mercer County2
- Monroe County2
- Summers 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.