Alert archive / Virginia / 1989
Weather alerts in Virginia, July 1989
21 weather alerts in July 1989, 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 July 1989. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 21
- Warnings
- 21
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- July 12, 19895 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 1:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Carroll, Grayson, Wythe | 4 hr |
| Jul 5, 7:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Smyth | 4 hr |
| Jul 5, 8:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Henry | 2 hr |
| Jul 5, 9:59 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Henry, Patrick | 2 hr |
| Jul 5, 9:59 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 7:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Roanoke | 116 min |
| Jul 6, 9:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Roanoke | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 6:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Buckingham | 56 min |
| Jul 12, 2:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Virginia Beach | 65 min |
| Jul 12, 2:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Greensville, Southampton | 97 min |
| Jul 12, 2:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Franklin | 65 min |
| Jul 12, 3:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Suffolk | 59 min |
| Jul 12, 3:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Suffolk | 68 min |
| Jul 16, 2:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Westmoreland | 2 hr |
| Jul 16, 3:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Powhatan | 3 hr |
| Jul 21, 5:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Frederick, City of Winchester | 97 min |
| Jul 21, 5:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Shenandoah | 97 min |
| Jul 21, 5:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Clarke, Warren | 99 min |
| Jul 25, 4:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Botetourt, Roanoke | 63 min |
| Jul 26, 3:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Page, Rockingham, Shenandoah | 3 hr |
| Jul 26, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Henrico | 51 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 | 7 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 14 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Roanoke County3
- Henry County2
- City of Suffolk2
- Shenandoah County2
- Carroll County1
- Grayson County1
- Wythe County1
- Smyth County1
- Patrick County1
- Pittsylvania County1
- Buckingham County1
- City of Virginia Beach1
- Greensville County1
- Southampton County1
- Franklin County1
- Westmoreland County1
- Powhatan County1
- Frederick County1
- City of Winchester1
- Clarke County1
- Warren County1
- Botetourt County1
- Page County1
- Rockingham County1
- Henrico 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.