Alert archive / Virginia / 1996
Weather alerts in Virginia, August 1996
69 weather alerts in August 1996, 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 August 1996. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 69
- Warnings
- 69
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- August 16, 199623 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 8:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Rockingham, Shenandoah | 65 min |
| Aug 2, 8:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Rockingham, Shenandoah | 65 min |
| Aug 2, 9:44 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Frederick | 66 min |
| Aug 3, 3:23 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Madison, Rappahannock | 117 min |
| Aug 3, 1:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Montgomery | 60 min |
| Aug 3, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Patrick | 64 min |
| Aug 6, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Charlotte | 64 min |
| Aug 6, 6:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Charlotte | 29 min |
| Aug 8, 7:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Buchanan | 39 min |
| Aug 8, 7:44 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Buchanan | 4 hr |
| Aug 8, 9:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Tazewell | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 9:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Giles | 57 min |
| Aug 12, 11:25 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Carroll | 4 hr |
| Aug 12, 1:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Montgomery | 4 hr |
| Aug 12, 5:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Aug 12, 7:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania, City of Danville | 4 hr |
| Aug 14, 7:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Highland | 112 min |
| Aug 15, 9:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Frederick | 66 min |
| Aug 15, 9:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Frederick | 47 min |
| Aug 16, 1:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Shenandoah | 48 min |
| Aug 16, 2:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Clarke, Loudoun | 60 min |
| Aug 16, 2:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Clarke, Loudoun | 60 min |
| Aug 16, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Patrick | 64 min |
| Aug 16, 3:02 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Madison | 63 min |
| Aug 16, 3:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Madison | 63 min |
| Aug 16, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Fauquier | 65 min |
| Aug 16, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Culpeper | 50 min |
| Aug 16, 4:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Fauquier, Loudoun, Prince William | 62 min |
| Aug 16, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Fairfax, Prince William | 47 min |
| Aug 16, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Cumberland | 46 min |
| Aug 16, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Powhatan | 48 min |
| Aug 16, 5:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Arlington, City of Falls Church | 50 min |
| Aug 16, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Russell | 43 min |
| Aug 16, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Caroline | 42 min |
| Aug 16, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Chesterfield | 48 min |
| Aug 16, 5:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | King George | 28 min |
| Aug 16, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Dinwiddie | 48 min |
| Aug 16, 6:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Amelia | 36 min |
| Aug 16, 7:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Brunswick | 51 min |
| Aug 16, 7:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | New Kent | 50 min |
| Aug 18, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Chesterfield, City of Colonial Heights, City of Petersburg | 48 min |
| Aug 21, 8:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Shenandoah | 30 min |
| Aug 22, 4:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Scott | 53 min |
| Aug 23, 1:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Lee | 66 min |
| Aug 23, 8:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Loudoun | 65 min |
| Aug 23, 8:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Loudoun | 65 min |
| Aug 24, 12:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Bath | 49 min |
| Aug 24, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Franklin | 19 min |
| Aug 24, 3:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Goochland, Henrico | 43 min |
| Aug 24, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Nelson | 34 min |
| Aug 24, 3:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Richmond | 43 min |
| Aug 24, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Charles City, Henrico, Prince George | 39 min |
| Aug 24, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Hopewell | 39 min |
| Aug 24, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Charles City, Prince George | 44 min |
| Aug 24, 7:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Middlesex | 39 min |
| Aug 26, 9:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Rockingham | 2 hr |
| Aug 26, 10:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Albemarle | 115 min |
| Aug 27, 12:19 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Rockingham | 111 min |
| Aug 27, 12:19 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Madison | 111 min |
| Aug 27, 3:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Page | 99 min |
| Aug 27, 4:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Greene, Rockingham | 93 min |
| Aug 27, 6:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Dickenson | 2 hr |
| Aug 27, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Caroline, Hanover | 48 min |
| Aug 27, 7:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | King and Queen, King William | 32 min |
| Aug 27, 7:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | King and Queen, King William | 32 min |
| Aug 27, 7:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Henrico, New Kent | 50 min |
| Aug 27, 7:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Charles City, New Kent | 47 min |
| Aug 27, 8:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | King and Queen | 71 min |
| Aug 27, 8:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | James City | 35 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 | 46 |
| Tornado Warning | 1 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 22 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Rockingham County5
- Loudoun County5
- Shenandoah County4
- Madison County4
- Frederick County3
- Montgomery County3
- New Kent County3
- Henrico County3
- Charles City County3
- King and Queen County3
- Patrick County2
- Charlotte County2
- Buchanan County2
- Clarke County2
- Fauquier County2
- Prince William County2
- Caroline County2
- Chesterfield County2
- Prince George County2
- King William County2
- Rappahannock County1
- Tazewell County1
- Giles County1
- Carroll County1
- Pittsylvania County1
- City of Danville1
- Highland County1
- Culpeper County1
- Fairfax County1
- Cumberland County1
- Powhatan County1
- Arlington County1
- City of Falls Church1
- Russell County1
- King George County1
- Dinwiddie County1
- Amelia County1
- Brunswick County1
- City of Colonial Heights1
- City of Petersburg1
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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.