Alert archive / West Virginia / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in West Virginia, 2023
6 tornado watches in 2023. 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 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest month
- August4 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- August 7, 20233 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 27, 4:07 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jackson, Mason, Pleasants, Wirt, Wood | 3 hr |
| Mar 3, 3:19 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cabell, Lincoln, Logan, Mingo, Wayne | 4 hr |
| Aug 7, 10:57 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 35 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 7, 1:20 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral and 2 more | 11 hr |
| Aug 7, 1:51 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Summers | 6 hr |
| Aug 12, 12:50 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brooke, Hancock, Marshall, Ohio | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Jackson County2
- Mason County2
- Pleasants County2
- Wirt County2
- Wood County2
- Cabell County2
- Lincoln County2
- Logan County2
- Mingo County2
- Wayne County2
- Marshall County2
- Ohio County2
- Barbour County1
- Boone County1
- Braxton County1
- Calhoun County1
- Clay County1
- Doddridge County1
- Fayette County1
- Gilmer County1
- Harrison County1
- Kanawha County1
- Lewis County1
- McDowell County1
- Marion County1
- Monongalia County1
- Nicholas County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Preston County1
- Putnam County1
- Raleigh County1
- Randolph County1
- Ritchie County1
- Roane County1
- Taylor County1
- Tucker County1
- Tyler County1
- Upshur County1
- Webster County1
- Wetzel 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.