Alert archive / Virginia

Weather alerts in Virginia, 1986

33 weather alerts in 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.

Weather alerts by county

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

Alerts
33
Warnings
33
Watches
0
Advisories
0
Busiest month
July18 alerts
Busiest day
July 9, 198611 alerts

Over time

By month

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 20, 9:50 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXLee60 min
Mar 18, 9:31 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXScott59 min
Mar 18, 9:31 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXWashington59 min
Apr 6, 4:31 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKFranklin59 min
Apr 8, 3:40 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQNottoway45 min
May 30, 6:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCharles City63 min
Jun 2, 3:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQGoochland, Powhatan65 min
Jun 2, 4:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCharles City50 min
Jun 8, 3:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQChesterfield26 min
Jun 20, 5:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQHanover48 min
Jul 9, 4:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXCulpeper, Fauquier72 min
Jul 9, 4:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXPrince William, Stafford69 min
Jul 9, 4:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXKing George69 min
Jul 9, 5:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQEssex49 min
Jul 9, 5:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQGloucester, Middlesex62 min
Jul 9, 5:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQLancaster62 min
Jul 9, 5:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQMathews62 min
Jul 9, 5:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQHanover, Henrico42 min
Jul 9, 5:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQJames City, York63 min
Jul 9, 6:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQAccomack52 min
Jul 9, 6:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCity of Virginia Beach32 min
Jul 11, 7:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQMecklenburg32 min
Jul 19, 6:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQHenrico36 min
Jul 19, 6:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQChesterfield58 min
Jul 26, 2:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQAlleghany65 min
Jul 26, 2:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQRockbridge69 min
Jul 26, 5:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCity of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach54 min
Jul 26, 5:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCity of Hampton54 min
Aug 2, 5:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQGoochland41 min
Aug 2, 5:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQHenrico32 min
Aug 6, 2:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKBotetourt56 min
Aug 6, 6:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQNottoway26 min
Aug 10, 7:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQAlbemarle39 min

By product

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

ProductAlerts
Severe storms
Severe Thunderstorm Warning33

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. July 9, 198611alerts
  2. July 26, 19864alerts
  3. March 18, 19862alerts
  4. June 2, 19862alerts
  5. July 19, 19862alerts
  6. August 2, 19862alerts
  7. August 6, 19862alerts
  8. February 20, 19861alerts
  9. April 6, 19861alerts
  10. April 8, 19861alerts
  11. May 30, 19861alerts
  12. June 8, 19861alerts

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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. Rebuilt daily.