Alert archive / West Virginia / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in West Virginia, 2024
8 tornado watches in 2024. 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 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest month
- April4 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 2, 20242 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 28, 4:40 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Cabell, Calhoun, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 2, 10:20 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay, Fayette and 18 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 2, 7:22 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Braxton, Brooke, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay and 24 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 11, 4:06 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Brooke, Cabell, Calhoun and 34 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 17, 3:46 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brooke, Doddridge, Hancock, Harrison, Marion, Marshall and 9 more | 7 hr |
| May 7, 9:17 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brooke, Cabell, Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer, Hancock and 12 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 29, 1:11 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brooke, Hancock, Marion, Marshall, Monongalia, Ohio and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 8, 6:37 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Morgan | 12 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cabell County5
- Calhoun County5
- Jackson County5
- Mason County5
- Pleasants County5
- Putnam County5
- Ritchie County5
- Roane County5
- Tyler County5
- Wood County5
- Brooke County5
- Hancock County5
- Marshall County5
- Ohio County5
- Wetzel County5
- Boone County4
- Kanawha County4
- Lincoln County4
- Logan County4
- Mingo County4
- Wayne County4
- Wirt County4
- Gilmer County4
- Doddridge County4
- Marion County4
- Monongalia County4
- Braxton County3
- Clay County3
- Lewis County3
- Harrison County3
- Fayette County2
- Nicholas County2
- Raleigh County2
- Upshur County2
- Webster County2
- Wyoming County2
- Preston County2
- Taylor County2
- Pocahontas County1
- Randolph 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.