Alert archive / West Virginia / Wetzel County
Weather alerts in Wetzel County, West Virginia, 2020
70 weather alerts in 2020, 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 70
- Warnings
- 17
- Watches
- 7
- Advisories
- 18
- Busiest month
- August12 alerts
- Busiest day
- August 25, 20206 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
Wetzel County, 2020
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 8 | 7 | 13% | 11 | 91% | 18 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 0 | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2020
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Pittsburgh, PA: tornado warnings | 10 | 3 | 70% | 8 | 38% | 4 min |
| NWS Pittsburgh, PA: severe thunderstorm warnings | 213 | 143 | 33% | 555 | 83% | 19 min |
| NWS Pittsburgh, PA: flash flood warnings | 24 | 19 | 21% | 49 | 90% | 83 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 11, 3:15 AM EST | Wind Advisory | PBZ | 31 hr |
| Jan 11, 4:45 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 60 min |
| Jan 15, 2:32 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | PBZ | 9 hr |
| Jan 17, 2:02 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | PBZ | 28 hr |
| Feb 6, 2:58 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | PBZ | 28 hr |
| Feb 7, 5:32 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Feb 11, 12:59 PM EST | Flash Flood Watch | PBZ | 42 hr |
| Mar 3, 1:22 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 113 min |
| Mar 29, 1:58 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | PBZ | 7 hr |
| Apr 7, 4:57 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 63 min |
| Apr 7, 11:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 1:52 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 83 min |
| Apr 8, 2:42 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 33 min |
| Apr 10, 2:40 PM EDT | Freeze Warning | PBZ | 18 hr |
| Apr 11, 2:03 PM EDT | High Wind Watch | PBZ | 24 hr |
| Apr 12, 1:44 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | PBZ | 28 hr |
| Apr 14, 2:51 AM EDT | Freeze Warning | PBZ | 30 hr |
| Apr 15, 3:23 AM EDT | Freeze Warning | PBZ | 31 hr |
| Apr 18, 1:16 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | PBZ | 20 hr |
| Apr 21, 3:44 AM EDT | Freeze Warning | PBZ | 30 hr |
| May 6, 1:01 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | PBZ | 20 hr |
| May 6, 1:01 PM EDT | Freeze Warning | PBZ | 20 hr |
| May 7, 1:13 PM EDT | Freeze Warning | PBZ | 45 hr |
| May 9, 3:17 AM EDT | Freeze Warning | PBZ | 28 hr |
| May 10, 6:36 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 24 min |
| May 10, 7:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 47 min |
| May 11, 2:53 AM EDT | Freeze Warning | PBZ | 29 hr |
| May 12, 11:46 AM EDT | Frost Advisory | PBZ | 21 hr |
| May 14, 8:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 48 min |
| May 23, 3:51 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | PBZ | 5 hr |
| Jun 3, 3:10 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jun 3, 3:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 37 min |
| Jun 3, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 27 min |
| Jun 3, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 49 min |
| Jun 4, 12:45 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 90 min |
| Jun 4, 4:00 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 90 min |
| Jun 10, 6:35 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 85 min |
| Jun 10, 6:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jun 10, 9:03 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 57 min |
| Jun 10, 10:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 24 min |
| Jul 8, 3:41 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | PBZ | 28 hr |
| Jul 10, 4:11 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 94 min |
| Jul 16, 12:18 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 117 min |
| Jul 16, 5:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 37 min |
| Jul 16, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 33 min |
| Jul 18, 1:26 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | PBZ | 28 hr |
| Jul 21, 10:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 53 min |
| Jul 27, 8:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 26 min |
| Aug 1, 2:19 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 56 min |
| Aug 1, 3:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Aug 1, 5:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 39 min |
| Aug 25, 1:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Aug 25, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 38 min |
| Aug 25, 3:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 32 min |
| Aug 25, 3:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 51 min |
| Aug 25, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 40 min |
| Aug 25, 4:35 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 85 min |
| Aug 26, 2:04 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 116 min |
| Aug 27, 2:14 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Aug 28, 5:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 23 min |
| Oct 2, 1:10 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | PBZ | 20 hr |
| Oct 15, 5:04 PM EDT | Freeze Watch | PBZ | 21 hr |
| Oct 16, 1:34 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | PBZ | 19 hr |
| Nov 14, 1:10 PM EST | Wind Advisory | PBZ | 42 hr |
| Nov 15, 2:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 39 min |
| Nov 29, 7:35 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | PBZ | 56 hr |
| Dec 15, 3:46 AM EST | Winter Storm Warning | PBZ | 49 hr |
| Dec 15, 1:05 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | PBZ | 40 hr |
| Dec 23, 12:39 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | PBZ | 48 hr |
| Dec 24, 2:28 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 5 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 | 8 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 4 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 17 |
| Special Weather Statement | 11 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Watch | 1 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Storm Warning | 1 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 5 |
| Heat | |
| Heat Advisory | 2 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 8 |
| Freeze Watch | 1 |
| Frost Advisory | 5 |
| Wind and dust | |
| High Wind Watch | 1 |
| 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.