Alert archive / Virginia / 1989
Weather alerts in Virginia, March 1989
21 weather alerts in March 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 March 1989. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 21
- Warnings
- 21
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- March 31, 198910 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 4:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Halifax, Pittsylvania | 70 min |
| Mar 15, 5:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Brunswick, Mecklenburg | 59 min |
| Mar 15, 6:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight, Southampton | 43 min |
| Mar 15, 7:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach | 69 min |
| Mar 30, 5:06 PM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Accomack | 39 min |
| Mar 30, 5:20 PM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight, Southampton, City of Suffolk | 55 min |
| Mar 30, 5:28 PM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | City of Virginia Beach | 62 min |
| Mar 30, 6:12 PM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | City of Hampton | 63 min |
| Mar 30, 6:12 PM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach | 63 min |
| Mar 30, 6:31 PM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach | 44 min |
| Mar 30, 6:31 PM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | City of Hampton | 44 min |
| Mar 31, 1:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Chesterfield, Henrico | 48 min |
| Mar 31, 1:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Dinwiddie | 53 min |
| Mar 31, 1:48 PM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Prince George | 42 min |
| Mar 31, 1:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | New Kent | 63 min |
| Mar 31, 1:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Charles City, Chesterfield, Prince George | 63 min |
| Mar 31, 2:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | James City, York | 67 min |
| Mar 31, 2:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight, Southampton, City of Suffolk | 69 min |
| Mar 31, 3:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Hampton | 56 min |
| Mar 31, 3:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Accomack, Northampton | 63 min |
| Mar 31, 3:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach | 57 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 | 13 |
| Tornado Warning | 8 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- City of Virginia Beach5
- City of Chesapeake4
- Isle of Wight County3
- Southampton County3
- City of Hampton3
- Chesterfield County3
- Accomack County2
- City of Suffolk2
- Dinwiddie County2
- Prince George County2
- Halifax County1
- Pittsylvania County1
- Brunswick County1
- Mecklenburg County1
- Henrico County1
- New Kent County1
- Charles City County1
- James City County1
- York County1
- Northampton 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.