Alert archive / West Virginia / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in West Virginia, 2022
7 tornado watches in 2022. 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 2022. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest month
- May5 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 6, 20222 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 2:35 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Brooke, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge and 22 more | 7 hr |
| May 3, 2:29 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brooke, Doddridge, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Marion and 11 more | 7 hr |
| May 6, 1:41 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | McDowell | 6 hr |
| May 6, 2:32 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Mercer, Monroe, Summers | 9 hr |
| May 20, 11:35 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Hampshire, Jefferson, Mineral, Morgan | 7 hr |
| May 27, 6:24 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Jefferson, Morgan | 8 hr |
| Jun 8, 7:25 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Braxton, Brooke, Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer and 20 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Brooke County3
- Doddridge County3
- Harrison County3
- Jackson County3
- Marion County3
- Marshall County3
- Mason County3
- Monongalia County3
- Ohio County3
- Pleasants County3
- Ritchie County3
- Tyler County3
- Wetzel County3
- Wirt County3
- Wood County3
- Calhoun County2
- Gilmer County2
- Hancock County2
- Roane County2
- Preston County2
- Berkeley County2
- Jefferson County2
- Morgan County2
- Boone County1
- Cabell County1
- Clay County1
- Kanawha County1
- Lincoln County1
- Logan County1
- Mingo County1
- Putnam County1
- Wayne County1
- McDowell County1
- Mercer County1
- Monroe County1
- Summers County1
- Hampshire County1
- Mineral County1
- Barbour County1
- Braxton 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.