Alert archive / Virginia / 1990
Weather alerts in Virginia, October 1990
30 weather alerts in October 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 October 1990. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 30
- Warnings
- 30
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- October 23, 199012 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 3:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Lunenburg, Mecklenburg | 46 min |
| Oct 11, 1:29 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Henry | 2 hr |
| Oct 12, 11:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Franklin | 116 min |
| Oct 13, 1:06 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Greene, Madison, Orange | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 1:06 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Culpeper, Rappahannock | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 2:12 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Clarke, Frederick, Page, Warren | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 4:09 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Culpeper, Madison, Rappahannock | 2 hr |
| Oct 13, 4:09 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Greene, Orange | 2 hr |
| Oct 13, 4:59 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Clarke, Frederick | 61 min |
| Oct 13, 6:06 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Clarke, Frederick | 69 min |
| Oct 18, 1:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Fairfax, Fauquier, Prince William | 40 min |
| Oct 18, 2:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Culpeper, Madison | 3 hr |
| Oct 18, 2:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Fauquier | 3 hr |
| Oct 18, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Arlington, Fairfax, Prince William | 58 min |
| Oct 18, 7:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | James City, York | 62 min |
| Oct 18, 7:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Hampton | 62 min |
| Oct 18, 8:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach | 43 min |
| Oct 22, 7:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Franklin, Henry | 4 hr |
| Oct 22, 10:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Amherst | 3 hr |
| Oct 22, 11:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Campbell | 3 hr |
| Oct 23, 6:28 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Madison, Page, Rappahannock, Warren | 3 hr |
| Oct 23, 6:28 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Greene | 3 hr |
| Oct 23, 6:28 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Shenandoah | 3 hr |
| Oct 23, 6:45 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Fairfax | 3 hr |
| Oct 23, 6:45 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Prince William, Stafford | 3 hr |
| Oct 23, 6:45 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | City of Fairfax | 3 hr |
| Oct 23, 6:58 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | Spotsylvania | 2 hr |
| Oct 23, 9:50 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Fairfax | 70 min |
| Oct 23, 9:50 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Prince William | 70 min |
| Oct 23, 9:50 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | City of Fairfax | 70 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 | 5 |
| Tornado Warning | 1 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 24 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Madison County4
- Fairfax County4
- Prince William County4
- Greene County3
- Culpeper County3
- Rappahannock County3
- Clarke County3
- Frederick County3
- Henry County2
- Franklin County2
- Orange County2
- Page County2
- Warren County2
- Fauquier County2
- City of Fairfax2
- Lunenburg County1
- Mecklenburg County1
- Arlington County1
- James City County1
- York County1
- City of Hampton1
- City of Chesapeake1
- City of Virginia Beach1
- Amherst County1
- Campbell County1
- Shenandoah County1
- Stafford County1
- Spotsylvania 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.