Alert archive / Virginia / 1996
Weather alerts in Virginia, November 1996
16 weather alerts in November 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 November 1996. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 16
- Warnings
- 16
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- November 8, 199616 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 8, 12:43 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Buchanan, Dickenson | 32 min |
| Nov 8, 12:44 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RNK | Henry, City of Martinsville | 41 min |
| Nov 8, 12:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Surry, Sussex | 48 min |
| Nov 8, 1:35 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LWX | King George | 35 min |
| Nov 8, 2:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Brunswick | 31 min |
| Nov 8, 2:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Cumberland, Goochland | 33 min |
| Nov 8, 2:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Amelia, Chesterfield, Powhatan | 33 min |
| Nov 8, 2:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Dinwiddie | 32 min |
| Nov 8, 2:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Louisa | 36 min |
| Nov 8, 2:46 PM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Chesterfield, Henrico | 19 min |
| Nov 8, 3:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Hanover | 35 min |
| Nov 8, 3:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Spotsylvania | 32 min |
| Nov 8, 3:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Brunswick | 21 min |
| Nov 8, 3:45 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Fairfax, Prince William | 3 hr |
| Nov 8, 4:06 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Arlington, City of Alexandria | 119 min |
| Nov 8, 5:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Northumberland | 19 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 | 11 |
| Tornado Warning | 3 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 2 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Brunswick County2
- Chesterfield County2
- Buchanan County1
- Dickenson County1
- Henry County1
- City of Martinsville1
- Surry County1
- Sussex County1
- King George County1
- Cumberland County1
- Goochland County1
- Amelia County1
- Powhatan County1
- Dinwiddie County1
- Louisa County1
- Henrico County1
- Hanover County1
- Spotsylvania County1
- Fairfax County1
- Prince William County1
- Arlington County1
- City of Alexandria1
- 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.