Alert archive / West Virginia / Wetzel County
Weather alerts in Wetzel County, West Virginia, 2016
50 weather alerts in 2016, 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 in 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 50
- Warnings
- 11
- Watches
- 9
- Advisories
- 20
- Busiest month
- October9 alerts
- Busiest day
- October 20, 20165 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
0 of 3 tornado warnings covering Wetzel County in 2016 had a tornado report inside them.
Wetzel County, 2016
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 3 | 0 | 100% | 0 | ||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 6 | 4 | 33% | 7 | 57% | 21 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 0 | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2016
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Pittsburgh, PA: tornado warnings | 13 | 4 | 69% | 6 | 67% | 3 min |
| NWS Pittsburgh, PA: severe thunderstorm warnings | 155 | 113 | 27% | 345 | 81% | 20 min |
| NWS Pittsburgh, PA: flash flood warnings | 24 | 16 | 33% | 60 | 85% | 49 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 10, 3:31 AM EST | Wind Advisory | PBZ | 14 hr |
| Jan 11, 2:37 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | PBZ | 40 hr |
| Jan 12, 12:57 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 93 min |
| Jan 17, 4:04 AM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | PBZ | 57 hr |
| Jan 20, 3:19 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | PBZ | 24 hr |
| Jan 21, 3:16 AM EST | Winter Storm Warning | PBZ | 64 hr |
| Feb 7, 8:26 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | PBZ | 4 days |
| Feb 12, 3:29 AM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | PBZ | 54 hr |
| Feb 14, 3:45 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | PBZ | 45 hr |
| Feb 24, 12:33 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 3 hr |
| Feb 29, 2:12 AM EST | Wind Advisory | PBZ | 7 hr |
| Mar 1, 3:34 AM EST | Wind Advisory | PBZ | 27 hr |
| Apr 2, 2:07 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | PBZ | 26 hr |
| Apr 26, 1:58 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| May 1, 5:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 27 min |
| May 1, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 28 min |
| May 2, 10:28 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | PBZ | 11 hr |
| May 15, 2:22 AM EDT | Freeze Watch | PBZ | 12 hr |
| May 15, 2:18 PM EDT | Freeze Warning | PBZ | 18 hr |
| Jun 16, 1:08 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 97 min |
| Jun 16, 1:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Jun 16, 4:20 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 55 min |
| Jun 22, 3:59 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | PBZ | 32 hr |
| Jun 23, 9:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 39 min |
| Jul 3, 1:24 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | PBZ | 25 hr |
| Jul 22, 3:13 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | PBZ | 29 hr |
| Jul 24, 1:47 AM EDT | Heat Advisory | PBZ | 18 hr |
| Jul 24, 6:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 41 min |
| Jul 24, 6:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | 18 min |
| Jul 25, 10:32 AM EDT | Heat Advisory | PBZ | 7 hr |
| Sep 26, 1:58 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Sep 29, 2:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | 29 min |
| Sep 29, 2:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 48 min |
| Sep 29, 2:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | 25 min |
| Sep 30, 2:38 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | 3 hr |
| Oct 3, 12:39 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | PBZ | 9 hr |
| Oct 4, 12:46 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | PBZ | 9 hr |
| Oct 13, 2:16 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | PBZ | 19 hr |
| Oct 20, 11:45 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | PBZ | 21 hr |
| Oct 20, 2:28 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Oct 20, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Oct 20, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 41 min |
| Oct 20, 4:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 39 min |
| Oct 24, 1:18 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | PBZ | 20 hr |
| Dec 14, 10:28 AM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | PBZ | 47 hr |
| Dec 15, 2:27 PM EST | Winter Storm Watch | PBZ | 15 hr |
| Dec 16, 5:05 AM EST | Freezing Rain Advisory | PBZ | 27 hr |
| Dec 16, 11:42 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 5 hr |
| Dec 18, 2:07 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Dec 18, 6:23 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | PBZ | 6 hr |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 6 |
| Tornado Warning | 3 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 2 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 7 |
| Special Weather Statement | 3 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Watch | 4 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 1 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Storm Warning | 1 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 2 |
| Freezing Rain Advisory | 1 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 4 |
| Heat | |
| Heat Advisory | 3 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 1 |
| Freeze Watch | 1 |
| Frost Advisory | 2 |
| Wind Chill Advisory | 3 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 4 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 2 |
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.