Alert archive / West Virginia / Webster County

Weather alerts in Webster County, West Virginia, 2009

40 weather alerts in 2009, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Webster County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2009. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
40
Warnings
7
Watches
7
Advisories
1
Busiest month
June17 alerts
Busiest day
February 11, 20094 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

Webster County, 2009

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings5260%1100%36 min
Flash flood warnings2150%0

Each office's whole area, 2009

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Charleston, WV: tornado warnings7186%1100%9 min
NWS Charleston, WV: severe thunderstorm warnings1606758%20977%24 min
NWS Charleston, WV: flash flood warnings301067%2492%77 min

An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 7, 3:21 AM ESTAreal Flood AdvisoryRLX9 hr
Jan 27, 12:25 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC4 hr
Jan 27, 7:25 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC6 hr
Feb 11, 5:32 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC88 min
Feb 11, 5:53 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC4 hr
Feb 11, 6:24 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX66 min
Feb 11, 6:28 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX62 min
Feb 18, 1:05 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC4 hr
May 16, 12:05 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC55 min
May 16, 2:46 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC59 min
May 28, 2:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
May 28, 4:54 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC66 min
May 28, 7:34 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC56 min
Jun 2, 3:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Jun 2, 4:47 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC88 min
Jun 2, 7:13 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC62 min
Jun 3, 12:12 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC93 min
Jun 3, 1:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC9 hr
Jun 3, 4:34 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC86 min
Jun 8, 3:24 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC96 min
Jun 9, 1:38 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC97 min
Jun 9, 2:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jun 9, 3:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX43 min
Jun 9, 4:03 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC57 min
Jun 17, 3:48 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr
Jun 17, 6:33 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC57 min
Jun 17, 6:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX48 min
Jun 19, 9:19 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC26 min
Jun 20, 12:46 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Jun 20, 3:14 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC91 min
Jul 17, 9:55 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLX113 min
Jul 21, 1:56 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC64 min
Jul 25, 4:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX37 min
Aug 2, 3:47 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLX4 hr
Aug 12, 12:36 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC84 min
Oct 9, 5:52 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC83 min
Oct 24, 5:25 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC95 min
Dec 18, 7:22 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC5 hr
Dec 19, 12:34 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC5 hr
Dec 19, 6:57 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC6 hr

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

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.