Alert archive / West Virginia / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in West Virginia, 2025
7 tornado watches in 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest month
- May4 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- March 16, 20252 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 16, 10:31 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Brooke, Calhoun, Clay and 34 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 16, 12:50 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral and 2 more | 7 hr |
| May 16, 7:17 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cabell, Lincoln, Logan, Mason, Mingo, Putnam and 1 more | 7 hr |
| May 20, 1:10 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Cabell, Lincoln, Logan, McDowell, Mingo and 2 more | 5 hr |
| May 21, 2:43 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brooke, Hancock, Marion, Marshall, Monongalia, Ohio and 3 more | 4 hr |
| May 30, 1:37 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Braxton, Clay, Fayette, Grant, Greenbrier and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 8, 2:26 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Jefferson | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lincoln County3
- Logan County3
- Mingo County3
- Wyoming County3
- Berkeley County3
- Jefferson County3
- Boone County2
- Braxton County2
- Brooke County2
- Clay County2
- Fayette County2
- Hancock County2
- Lewis County2
- Marion County2
- Marshall County2
- Mason County2
- Monongalia County2
- Nicholas County2
- Ohio County2
- Pocahontas County2
- Preston County2
- Putnam County2
- Raleigh County2
- Randolph County2
- Tyler County2
- Upshur County2
- Webster County2
- Wetzel County2
- Grant County2
- Hampshire County2
- Hardy County2
- Mineral County2
- Morgan County2
- Pendleton County2
- Cabell County2
- Wayne County2
- McDowell County2
- Barbour County1
- Calhoun County1
- Doddridge 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.