Alert archive / West Virginia / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in West Virginia, 2014
7 tornado watches in 2014. 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 2014. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest month
- June3 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 14, 20141 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 14, 1:23 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cabell, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln, Mason, Putnam and 2 more | 9 hr |
| Jun 4, 2:51 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Cabell, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan and 8 more | 10 hr |
| Jun 4, 8:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Summers | 6 hr |
| Jun 11, 2:59 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Brooke, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 27, 1:44 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Braxton, Brooke, Cabell, Calhoun, Doddridge and 23 more | 9 hr |
| Jul 27, 9:28 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 32 more | 4 hr |
| Oct 7, 2:02 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay, Jackson, Kanawha and 13 more | 9 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cabell County5
- Jackson County5
- Mason County5
- Wayne County5
- Kanawha County4
- Lincoln County4
- Putnam County4
- Wood County4
- Roane County4
- Wirt County4
- Boone County3
- Logan County3
- McDowell County3
- Mingo County3
- Wyoming County3
- Tucker County3
- Calhoun County3
- Pleasants County3
- Ritchie County3
- Greenbrier County2
- Mercer County2
- Monroe County2
- Summers County2
- Brooke County2
- Marion County2
- Marshall County2
- Monongalia County2
- Ohio County2
- Preston County2
- Wetzel County2
- Barbour County2
- Braxton County2
- Doddridge County2
- Gilmer County2
- Lewis County2
- Randolph County2
- Tyler County2
- Upshur County2
- Clay County2
- Berkeley 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.