Alert archive / Virginia / 1997
Weather alerts in Virginia, May 1997
35 weather alerts in May 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 May 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 35
- Warnings
- 31
- Watches
- 4
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 1, 199722 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Mecklenburg | 30 min |
| May 1, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Lunenburg | 35 min |
| May 1, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Brunswick, Dinwiddie | 38 min |
| May 1, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Accomack, Brunswick, Charles City, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Essex and 39 more | 6 hr |
| May 1, 3:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Greensville | 26 min |
| May 1, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Prince George, City of Petersburg | 45 min |
| May 1, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Sussex | 45 min |
| May 1, 3:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Brunswick, Mecklenburg | 32 min |
| May 1, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Surry | 25 min |
| May 1, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Northumberland | 17 min |
| May 1, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight | 39 min |
| May 1, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Brunswick, Greensville | 19 min |
| May 1, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | James City, York, City of Newport News, City of Williamsburg | 26 min |
| May 1, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Hampton, City of Newport News | 29 min |
| May 1, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Poquoson | 29 min |
| May 1, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Gloucester, Mathews | 39 min |
| May 1, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Southampton, Sussex | 29 min |
| May 1, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Northampton | 27 min |
| May 1, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight, City of Suffolk | 28 min |
| May 1, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Virginia Beach | 32 min |
| May 1, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight, City of Suffolk | 29 min |
| May 1, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Virginia Beach | 38 min |
| May 3, 11:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake | 39 min |
| May 3, 11:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Virginia Beach | 32 min |
| May 6, 12:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Arlington | 36 min |
| May 9, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | King and Queen, King William, New Kent | 19 min |
| May 9, 4:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | King and Queen | 17 min |
| May 9, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Isle of Wight, Southampton, City of Chesapeake, City of Franklin, City of Hampton, City of Norfolk and 3 more | 6 hr |
| May 13, 7:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Campbell | 46 min |
| May 14, 7:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Lee | 46 min |
| May 15, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach | 5 hr |
| May 15, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Northampton | 16 min |
| May 15, 10:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Northampton | 17 min |
| May 19, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Highland | 4 hr |
| May 26, 11:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Scott, Washington | 3 hr |
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 | 30 |
| 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.
- City of Virginia Beach6
- Isle of Wight County5
- City of Chesapeake5
- Brunswick County4
- Northampton County4
- City of Norfolk4
- City of Portsmouth4
- City of Suffolk4
- Mecklenburg County3
- Greensville County3
- King and Queen County3
- Southampton County3
- Sussex County3
- City of Hampton3
- City of Newport News3
- Lunenburg County2
- Dinwiddie County2
- Gloucester County2
- James City County2
- King William County2
- Mathews County2
- New Kent County2
- Northumberland County2
- Prince George County2
- Surry County2
- York County2
- City of Franklin2
- City of Petersburg2
- City of Poquoson2
- City of Williamsburg2
- Accomack County1
- Charles City County1
- Chesterfield County1
- Essex County1
- Hanover County1
- Henrico County1
- Lancaster County1
- Middlesex County1
- Nottoway County1
- Richmond 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.