Alert archive / Virginia / 1997
Weather alerts in Virginia, March 1997
25 weather alerts in March 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 March 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 25
- Warnings
- 19
- Watches
- 6
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- March 5, 19979 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 4:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Buchanan, Giles, Highland | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 1:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Buchanan, Dickenson, Highland, Lee, Russell, Scott and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 3, 5:50 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Lee | 3 hr |
| Mar 3, 10:50 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Smyth | 4 hr |
| Mar 5, 11:03 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Lee | 57 min |
| Mar 5, 11:41 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Lee | 4 hr |
| Mar 5, 12:49 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Scott, Wise | 4 hr |
| Mar 5, 3:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | City of Danville | 6 hr |
| Mar 5, 5:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Henry, City of Martinsville | 61 min |
| Mar 5, 6:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania, City of Danville | 63 min |
| Mar 5, 6:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brunswick, Greensville, Halifax, Mecklenburg, Southampton, City of Chesapeake and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 5, 6:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Halifax | 66 min |
| Mar 5, 6:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Mecklenburg | 55 min |
| Mar 5, 7:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Brunswick | 42 min |
| Mar 5, 8:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Greensville | 40 min |
| Mar 5, 8:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Southampton, Sussex | 41 min |
| Mar 5, 8:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Suffolk | 35 min |
| Mar 24, 11:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Lee | 34 min |
| Mar 28, 11:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Buchanan, Dickenson, Lee, Russell, Scott, Smyth and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 29, 1:16 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Dickenson | 29 min |
| Mar 29, 12:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Accomack, Albemarle, Arlington, Caroline, Clarke, Culpeper and 31 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 29, 2:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Portsmouth, City of Suffolk | 31 min |
| Mar 29, 2:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Accomack, Northampton | 21 min |
| Mar 29, 2:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Accomack | 32 min |
| Mar 29, 2:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Norfolk, City of Virginia Beach | 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 | 15 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 5 |
| Tornado Watch | 1 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 4 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lee County6
- Buchanan County3
- Dickenson County3
- Scott County3
- Wise County3
- City of Suffolk3
- Accomack County3
- Highland County2
- Russell County2
- Tazewell County2
- Washington County2
- City of Norton2
- Smyth County2
- City of Danville2
- Brunswick County2
- Greensville County2
- Halifax County2
- Mecklenburg County2
- Southampton County2
- City of Chesapeake2
- City of Portsmouth2
- City of Virginia Beach2
- Giles County1
- Henry County1
- City of Martinsville1
- Pittsylvania County1
- City of Emporia1
- City of Franklin1
- Sussex County1
- City of Bristol1
- Albemarle County1
- Arlington County1
- Caroline County1
- Clarke County1
- Culpeper County1
- Essex County1
- Fairfax County1
- Fauquier County1
- Fluvanna County1
- Goochland County1
28 more counties
- Greene County1
- Hanover County1
- King and Queen County1
- King George County1
- King William County1
- Lancaster County1
- Loudoun County1
- Louisa County1
- Madison County1
- Nelson County1
- Northumberland County1
- Orange County1
- Prince William County1
- Rappahannock County1
- Richmond County1
- Spotsylvania County1
- Stafford County1
- Warren County1
- Westmoreland County1
- City of Alexandria1
- City of Charlottesville1
- City of Fairfax1
- City of Falls Church1
- City of Fredericksburg1
- City of Manassas1
- City of Manassas Park1
- Northampton County1
- City of Norfolk1
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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.