Alert archive / West Virginia / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in West Virginia, 2020
3 tornado watches in 2020. 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest month
- April2 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 9, 20201 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 10:51 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay, Fayette and 18 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 13, 11:33 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Jefferson, Morgan | 5 hr |
| Sep 3, 3:42 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Jefferson | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Berkeley County2
- Jefferson County2
- Boone County1
- Braxton County1
- Cabell County1
- Calhoun County1
- Clay County1
- Fayette County1
- Gilmer County1
- Jackson County1
- Kanawha County1
- Lincoln County1
- Logan County1
- McDowell County1
- Mason County1
- Mingo County1
- Nicholas County1
- Putnam County1
- Raleigh County1
- Ritchie County1
- Roane County1
- Wayne County1
- Webster County1
- Wirt County1
- Wood County1
- Wyoming County1
- Morgan 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.