Alert archive / Virginia / 1996
Weather alerts in Virginia, December 1996
16 weather alerts in December 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 December 1996. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 16
- Warnings
- 16
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- December 1, 19969 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 30, 7:19 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Wise | 4 hr |
| Nov 30, 8:25 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Scott | 3 hr |
| Nov 30, 10:03 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Lee | 3 hr |
| Nov 30, 11:43 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Wise | 3 hr |
| Dec 1, 1:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Lee, Scott | 5 hr |
| Dec 1, 2:46 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Lee, Scott, Wise | 6 hr |
| Dec 1, 6:22 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Roanoke, City of Roanoke, City of Salem | 6 hr |
| Dec 1, 7:53 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Montgomery | 4 hr |
| Dec 1, 8:55 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Wise | 3 hr |
| Dec 1, 9:44 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Bedford | 3 hr |
| Dec 1, 9:44 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Patrick | 3 hr |
| Dec 5, 9:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Chesterfield, Prince George, City of Colonial Heights, City of Petersburg | 33 min |
| Dec 5, 9:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Hopewell | 33 min |
| Dec 5, 9:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Henrico | 35 min |
| Dec 5, 9:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Charles City, New Kent | 32 min |
| Dec 5, 10:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | James City, King and Queen, King William | 32 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 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 11 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Wise County4
- Scott County3
- Lee County3
- Roanoke County1
- City of Roanoke1
- City of Salem1
- Montgomery County1
- Bedford County1
- Patrick County1
- Chesterfield County1
- Prince George County1
- City of Colonial Heights1
- City of Petersburg1
- City of Hopewell1
- Henrico County1
- Charles City County1
- New Kent County1
- James City County1
- King and Queen County1
- King William 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.