Alert archive / Virginia

Weather alerts in Virginia, 1987

41 weather alerts in 1987, 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 1987. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
41
Warnings
41
Watches
0
Advisories
0
Busiest month
July14 alerts
Busiest day
April 16, 19874 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 28, 9:00 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRNKHalifax2 hr
Mar 30, 11:23 PM ESTTornado WarningRNKMontgomery7 min
Apr 15, 9:25 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRNKPatrick5 hr
Apr 15, 11:00 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRNKBedford, Pittsylvania3 hr
Apr 16, 4:35 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningMRXBuchanan4 hr
Apr 16, 12:54 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRNKCraig3 hr
Apr 16, 10:55 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRNKHalifax, Pittsylvania3 hr
Apr 24, 2:00 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRNKHenry4 hr
Apr 24, 3:50 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRNKMontgomery2 hr
Apr 24, 3:50 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRNKFranklin2 hr
Apr 24, 5:48 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRNKCraig, Roanoke3 hr
May 3, 6:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQHenrico53 min
Jun 1, 5:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQAmelia31 min
Jun 1, 7:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKPittsylvania60 min
Jun 1, 9:08 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQCaroline67 min
Jun 3, 5:37 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQHenrico23 min
Jun 3, 5:52 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQCaroline38 min
Jun 3, 6:45 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQPrince George30 min
Jun 3, 8:06 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQSouthampton, City of Suffolk114 min
Jun 20, 7:18 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQHanover57 min
Jun 21, 10:40 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRNKPatrick80 min
Jun 23, 5:53 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQSussex67 min
Jul 5, 9:39 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKBedford, Roanoke26 min
Jul 6, 6:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQAlbemarle, Nelson41 min
Jul 6, 6:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQNelson42 min
Jul 7, 7:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXCulpeper, Fauquier, Stafford63 min
Jul 7, 7:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXOrange63 min
Jul 7, 7:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQSpotsylvania51 min
Jul 11, 6:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXArlington, Fairfax69 min
Jul 12, 3:45 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQEssex, Westmoreland60 min
Jul 12, 4:15 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXFairfax, Loudoun60 min
Jul 13, 1:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKRoanoke66 min
Jul 26, 4:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCaroline22 min
Jul 26, 4:34 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQLouisa26 min
Jul 30, 3:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKRoanoke68 min
Jul 31, 5:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQCity of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach57 min
Aug 4, 8:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQAlbemarle, Louisa44 min
Aug 28, 9:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQLunenburg, Mecklenburg31 min
Aug 28, 10:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQMecklenburg29 min
Sep 7, 12:55 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRNKBedford65 min
Sep 7, 2:40 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRNKBedford2 hr

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 Warning16
Tornado Warning12
Flooding
Flash Flood Warning13

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. April 16, 19874alerts
  2. April 24, 19874alerts
  3. June 3, 19873alerts
  4. July 6, 19873alerts
  5. July 7, 19873alerts
  6. June 1, 19872alerts
  7. July 12, 19872alerts
  8. July 26, 19872alerts
  9. August 29, 19872alerts
  10. September 7, 19872alerts
  11. March 1, 19871alerts
  12. March 31, 19871alerts

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. Rebuilt daily.