Alert archive / West Virginia

Weather alerts in Wood County, West Virginia

2,771 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Wood County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
2,771
Warnings
763
Watches
571
Advisories
401
Busiest year
2026202 alerts
Average year
73over 38 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, 71% of tornado reports in Wood County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 31 minutes before, and 78% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200910100%0
2010220%4100%32 min
201110100%0
201530100%10%
20176183%0
202110100%0
20233167%1100%28 min
2024010%
202510100%0
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008201430%875%17 min
20098363%9100%19 min
2010880%633%26 min
2011121017%989%38 min
201213931%875%26 min
20136517%475%21 min
201410640%863%18 min
20159544%1040%32 min
2016151127%580%19 min
2017131023%1650%20 min
20184250%10%
2019171229%1694%22 min
2020131115%729%14 min
202114843%978%20 min
2022191237%1963%15 min
202310820%1553%15 min
2024191047%2045%33 min
2025241921%4751%15 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008110%0
20102150%1100%33 min
20113167%0
20123233%1100%66 min
20135340%333%29 min
201410100%0
2015550%12100%120 min
2016220%2100%34 min
20178713%560%66 min
20183167%0
20196267%1100%39 min
20203167%333%41 min
20216517%2100%167 min
2022030%
20233167%5100%61 min
2024220%650%29 min
20259811%1385%26 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 21, 5:30 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningRLX7 hr
Sep 21, 5:19 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningRLX9 hr
Sep 21, 4:44 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningRLX48 hr
Sep 21, 2:35 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLX106 min
Sep 21, 12:28 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLX5 hr
Sep 21, 12:13 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLX4 hr
Sep 20, 11:33 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLX6 hr
Sep 20, 10:45 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLX6 hr
Sep 20, 8:33 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningRLX5 hr
Sep 20, 6:06 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningRLX17 hr
Sep 20, 3:44 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLX5 hr
Sep 20, 1:42 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLX4 hr

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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.