Alert archive / West Virginia

Weather alerts in Wetzel County, West Virginia

2,267 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Wetzel County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
2,267
Warnings
536
Watches
504
Advisories
419
Busiest year
2011144 alerts
Average year
63over 36 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

Warning verification

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

From 2008 to 2025, of tornado reports in Wetzel County fell inside a tornado warning, and 100% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200920100%0
201410100%0
201630100%0
201720100%0
202220100%0
202310100%0
202420100%0
202510100%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20088538%1100%28 min
20098713%2100%24 min
2010131023%5100%21 min
20116517%2100%17 min
201211827%978%35 min
201315147%1060%20 min
2014131023%863%15 min
20157443%0
20166433%757%21 min
20176517%2100%13 min
20188625%1100%31 min
20199633%1100%9 min
20208713%1191%18 min
202115753%367%17 min
2022231726%1191%19 min
202310460%2100%16 min
202414750%683%9 min
2025171229%2080%13 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20122150%0
201410100%0
201510100%0
2017220%8100%125 min
20182150%1100%87 min
2019220%1100%134 min
2022110%2100%21 min
20232150%0
20246350%989%253 min
20258538%580%63 min

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

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.

By product

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

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 3, 9:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ51 min
Aug 27, 6:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ24 min
Aug 22, 4:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ49 min
Aug 17, 2:33 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZ3 hr
Aug 16, 3:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ50 min
Aug 16, 2:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ43 min
Aug 11, 11:53 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ29 min
Aug 8, 8:03 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ42 min
Jul 22, 12:01 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningPBZ23 hr
Jul 21, 8:17 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningPBZ15 hr
Jul 21, 4:37 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZ3 hr
Jul 21, 4:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ40 min

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.