Alert archive / Virginia / 1988
Weather alerts in Virginia, August 1988
13 weather alerts in August 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 August 1988. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 13
- Warnings
- 13
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- August 15, 19885 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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 | 12 |
| Tornado Warning | 1 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Fairfax County2
- Prince William County2
- Montgomery County1
- Pulaski County1
- City of Radford1
- Craig County1
- Loudoun County1
- Clarke County1
- Frederick County1
- Arlington County1
- King George County1
- Stafford County1
- Franklin County1
- Chesterfield County1
- Powhatan County1
- Dinwiddie County1
- Prince George County1
- Brunswick County1
- Botetourt County1
- Pittsylvania County1
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.