Weather alerts in Virginia, 1988
66 weather alerts in 1988, 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 1988. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 66
- Warnings
- 66
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest month
- May26 alerts
- Busiest day
- May 16, 19889 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 2:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Amherst | 60 min |
| Mar 26, 2:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Rockbridge | 45 min |
| Mar 26, 5:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Spotsylvania, City of Fredericksburg | 66 min |
| Mar 26, 5:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Orange | 66 min |
| Mar 26, 5:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Stafford | 66 min |
| Apr 23, 7:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Bedford, Botetourt, Roanoke, City of Salem | 57 min |
| May 16, 2:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Shenandoah | 67 min |
| May 16, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Rappahannock | 45 min |
| May 16, 3:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Culpeper | 38 min |
| May 16, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Bedford | 15 min |
| May 16, 4:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Franklin | 42 min |
| May 16, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Stafford | 64 min |
| May 16, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Franklin | 29 min |
| May 16, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Arlington, Fairfax | 55 min |
| May 16, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | King George | 60 min |
| May 17, 2:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Patrick | 44 min |
| May 17, 2:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Franklin | 57 min |
| May 17, 7:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | City of Norfolk | 57 min |
| May 21, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Hanover, Henrico | 50 min |
| May 22, 8:33 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Fauquier, Rappahannock | 117 min |
| May 23, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Loudoun | 69 min |
| May 23, 4:50 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Warren | 115 min |
| May 23, 5:33 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Fauquier, Loudoun | 3 hr |
| May 23, 9:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Halifax | 55 min |
| May 23, 10:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania | 40 min |
| May 23, 10:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Bedford, Campbell, Halifax, Pittsylvania | 66 min |
| May 23, 10:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | City of Lynchburg | 66 min |
| May 23, 10:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | 66 min | |
| May 24, 12:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Albemarle | 65 min |
| May 24, 1:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Culpeper, Fauquier, Stafford | 64 min |
| May 24, 1:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Fairfax | 64 min |
| May 24, 1:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Fairfax, Loudoun | 68 min |
| Jun 2, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Botetourt | 45 min |
| Jun 2, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Bedford | 60 min |
| Jun 2, 5:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania | 60 min |
| Jun 17, 6:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pulaski | 62 min |
| Jun 23, 3:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Prince William | 69 min |
| Jun 23, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Fluvanna | 61 min |
| Jun 26, 3:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Caroline | 42 min |
| Jun 26, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Essex, Richmond, Westmoreland | 55 min |
| Jun 26, 3:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Richmond | 65 min |
| Jun 26, 3:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Northumberland | 39 min |
| Jun 26, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach | 56 min |
| Jun 26, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Sussex | 56 min |
| Jun 26, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Greensville, Southampton | 35 min |
| Jul 18, 3:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Montgomery | 46 min |
| Jul 26, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Loudoun | 67 min |
| Jul 26, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Fauquier | 56 min |
| Jul 26, 7:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Arlington, Fairfax | 48 min |
| Jul 26, 7:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Rappahannock | 48 min |
| Aug 6, 3:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Montgomery, Pulaski, City of Radford | 31 min |
| Aug 11, 4:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Craig | 69 min |
| Aug 15, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Loudoun | 36 min |
| Aug 15, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Clarke, Frederick | 36 min |
| Aug 15, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Arlington, Fairfax, Prince William | 57 min |
| Aug 15, 6:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | King George, Prince William, Stafford | 63 min |
| Aug 15, 6:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Fairfax | 63 min |
| Aug 15, 8:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Franklin | 59 min |
| Aug 18, 2:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Chesterfield, Powhatan | 60 min |
| Aug 18, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Dinwiddie, Prince George | 60 min |
| Aug 18, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Brunswick | 55 min |
| Aug 19, 4:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Botetourt | 36 min |
| Aug 19, 7:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania | 31 min |
| Nov 5, 6:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Newport News | 68 min |
| Nov 28, 3:15 AM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight, Southampton | 60 min |
| Nov 28, 3:40 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Hampton | 65 min |
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 | 57 |
| Tornado Warning | 6 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 3 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Fairfax County6
- Loudoun County5
- Stafford County4
- Bedford County4
- Franklin County4
- Fauquier County4
- Pittsylvania County4
- Botetourt County3
- Rappahannock County3
- Arlington County3
- Prince William County3
- Culpeper County2
- King George County2
- Halifax County2
- Pulaski County2
- Richmond County2
- Southampton County2
- Montgomery County2
- Amherst County1
- Rockbridge County1
- Spotsylvania County1
- City of Fredericksburg1
- Orange County1
- Roanoke County1
- City of Salem1
- Shenandoah County1
- Patrick County1
- City of Norfolk1
- Hanover County1
- Henrico County1
- Warren County1
- Campbell County1
- City of Lynchburg1
- Albemarle County1
- Fluvanna County1
- Caroline County1
- Essex County1
- Westmoreland County1
- Northumberland County1
- City of Chesapeake1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.