Alert archive / Virginia / 1997
Weather alerts in Virginia, August 1997
25 weather alerts in August 1997, 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 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 25
- Warnings
- 21
- Watches
- 4
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- August 4, 199716 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 4, 12:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Louisa | 49 min |
| Aug 4, 12:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Accomack, Amelia, Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford, Brunswick and 72 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 4, 12:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Buchanan, Dickenson | 51 min |
| Aug 4, 1:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Hanover | 31 min |
| Aug 4, 1:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Campbell | 34 min |
| Aug 4, 1:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Buchanan | 29 min |
| Aug 4, 1:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Hanover, King William | 48 min |
| Aug 4, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Prince Edward | 35 min |
| Aug 4, 2:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Essex, Richmond | 34 min |
| Aug 4, 2:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Lancaster | 47 min |
| Aug 4, 3:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Charles City, James City | 32 min |
| Aug 4, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | City of Danville | 6 hr |
| Aug 4, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Wise | 69 min |
| Aug 4, 3:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Washington | 54 min |
| Aug 4, 4:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Accomack, Northampton | 48 min |
| Aug 4, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Northampton | 50 min |
| Aug 17, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Albemarle, Arlington, Augusta, Bath, Clarke, Culpeper and 28 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 17, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Frederick | 48 min |
| Aug 17, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Fairfax | 46 min |
| Aug 17, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Caroline, Essex, King George, Richmond, Westmoreland | 6 hr |
| Aug 17, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Arlington | 49 min |
| Aug 17, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Fairfax, Prince William | 46 min |
| Aug 17, 8:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Fauquier | 33 min |
| Aug 19, 10:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Buchanan | 4 hr |
| Aug 25, 3:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pulaski | 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 | 20 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 4 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 1 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Louisa County3
- Essex County3
- Hanover County3
- Northampton County3
- Richmond County3
- Buchanan County3
- Fairfax County3
- Accomack County2
- Campbell County2
- Caroline County2
- Charles City County2
- James City County2
- King George County2
- King William County2
- Lancaster County2
- Orange County2
- Prince Edward County2
- Spotsylvania County2
- Westmoreland County2
- City of Charlottesville2
- City of Fredericksburg2
- Arlington County2
- Fauquier County2
- Frederick County2
- Prince William County2
- Amelia County1
- Amherst County1
- Appomattox County1
- Bedford County1
- Brunswick County1
- Buckingham County1
- Carroll County1
- Charlotte County1
- Chesterfield County1
- Cumberland County1
- Dinwiddie County1
- Floyd County1
- Fluvanna County1
- Franklin County1
- Gloucester County1
73 more counties
- Goochland County1
- Grayson County1
- Greensville County1
- Halifax County1
- Henrico County1
- Henry County1
- Isle of Wight County1
- King and Queen County1
- Lunenburg County1
- Mathews County1
- Mecklenburg County1
- Middlesex County1
- Montgomery County1
- Nelson County1
- New Kent County1
- Northumberland County1
- Nottoway County1
- Patrick County1
- Pittsylvania County1
- Powhatan County1
- Prince George County1
- Southampton County1
- Surry County1
- Sussex County1
- York County1
- City of Colonial Heights1
- City of Emporia1
- City of Franklin1
- City of Galax1
- City of Hampton1
- City of Hopewell1
- City of Lynchburg1
- City of Martinsville1
- City of Newport News1
- City of Norfolk1
- City of Petersburg1
- City of Poquoson1
- City of Portsmouth1
- City of Radford1
- City of Richmond1
- City of Roanoke1
- City of Salem1
- City of Suffolk1
- City of Williamsburg1
- Dickenson County1
- City of Danville1
- Wise County1
- Washington County1
- Albemarle County1
- Augusta County1
- Bath County1
- Clarke County1
- Culpeper County1
- Greene County1
- Highland County1
- Loudoun County1
- Madison County1
- Page County1
- Rappahannock County1
- Rockingham County1
- Shenandoah County1
- Stafford County1
- Warren County1
- City of Alexandria1
- City of Fairfax1
- City of Falls Church1
- City of Harrisonburg1
- City of Manassas1
- City of Manassas Park1
- City of Staunton1
- City of Waynesboro1
- City of Winchester1
- Pulaski 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.