Alert archive / Virginia / 1990
Weather alerts in Virginia, May 1990
20 weather alerts in May 1990, 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 May 1990. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 20
- Warnings
- 20
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 10, 19907 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 2:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Dickenson, Wise | 39 min |
| May 1, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Russell | 25 min |
| May 1, 3:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Scott | 38 min |
| May 4, 7:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Chesterfield | 68 min |
| May 4, 9:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Prince George | 43 min |
| May 10, 2:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Buckingham, Fluvanna | 56 min |
| May 10, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Amelia, Nottoway | 48 min |
| May 10, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Prince George, City of Petersburg | 49 min |
| May 10, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Prince George | 45 min |
| May 10, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Gloucester | 68 min |
| May 10, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | York | 68 min |
| May 10, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach | 45 min |
| May 13, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Fluvanna | 55 min |
| May 15, 5:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Rockingham | 2 hr |
| May 15, 8:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Craig | 2 hr |
| May 15, 8:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Craig | 48 min |
| May 22, 12:26 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Roanoke | 64 min |
| May 26, 5:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Hanover | 56 min |
| May 26, 5:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Amelia | 56 min |
| May 26, 10:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Lancaster, Northumberland | 108 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 | 16 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 4 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Chesterfield County3
- Prince George County3
- Dinwiddie County2
- Fluvanna County2
- Amelia County2
- Craig County2
- Dickenson County1
- Wise County1
- Russell County1
- Scott County1
- Buckingham County1
- Nottoway County1
- City of Petersburg1
- Gloucester County1
- York County1
- City of Chesapeake1
- City of Virginia Beach1
- Rockingham County1
- Roanoke County1
- Hanover County1
- Lancaster County1
- Northumberland 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.