Alert archive / Virginia / 1991
Weather alerts in Virginia, May 1991
21 weather alerts in May 1991, 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 1991. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 21
- Warnings
- 21
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 6, 199110 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, 7:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight, Southampton | 43 min |
| May 1, 7:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Surry | 27 min |
| May 1, 8:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | James City, York | 44 min |
| May 1, 8:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight, City of Suffolk | 52 min |
| May 1, 8:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach | 52 min |
| May 1, 8:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach | 28 min |
| May 1, 9:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Virginia Beach | 30 min |
| May 1, 9:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Virginia Beach | 33 min |
| May 6, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Frederick | 49 min |
| May 6, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | City of Winchester | 49 min |
| May 6, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Loudoun | 68 min |
| May 6, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Clarke | 68 min |
| May 6, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Culpeper, Fauquier, Loudoun, Rappahannock | 55 min |
| May 6, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Madison | 55 min |
| May 6, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Arlington, Fairfax, City of Alexandria, City of Falls Church | 55 min |
| May 6, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Prince William, Stafford | 55 min |
| May 6, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | City of Fairfax | 55 min |
| May 6, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | City of Manassas, City of Manassas Park | 55 min |
| May 17, 3:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Albemarle | 32 min |
| May 18, 7:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Buchanan | 59 min |
| May 18, 9:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Giles | 3 hr |
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 | 18 |
| Tornado Warning | 1 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 2 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- City of Virginia Beach4
- Isle of Wight County2
- City of Chesapeake2
- Loudoun County2
- Southampton County1
- Surry County1
- James City County1
- York County1
- City of Suffolk1
- Frederick County1
- City of Winchester1
- Clarke County1
- Culpeper County1
- Fauquier County1
- Rappahannock County1
- Madison County1
- Arlington County1
- Fairfax County1
- City of Alexandria1
- City of Falls Church1
- Prince William County1
- Stafford County1
- City of Fairfax1
- City of Manassas1
- City of Manassas Park1
- Albemarle County1
- Buchanan County1
- Giles County1
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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.