Alert archive / Virginia / 1998
Weather alerts in Virginia, August 1998
4 weather alerts in August 1998, 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 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 4
- Warnings
- 3
- Watches
- 1
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- August 8, 19982 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 8, 3:26 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Campbell, City of Lynchburg | 119 min |
| Aug 8, 4:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania, City of Danville | 117 min |
| Aug 16, 7:22 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Henry, City of Martinsville | 3 hr |
| Aug 27, 5:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dinwiddie, Greensville, Isle of Wight, Northampton, Prince George, Southampton and 17 more | 12 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 | |
| Tornado Watch | 1 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 3 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Campbell County1
- City of Lynchburg1
- Pittsylvania County1
- City of Danville1
- Henry County1
- City of Martinsville1
- Dinwiddie County1
- Greensville County1
- Isle of Wight County1
- Northampton County1
- Prince George County1
- Southampton County1
- Surry County1
- Sussex County1
- York County1
- City of Chesapeake1
- City of Colonial Heights1
- City of Emporia1
- City of Franklin1
- City of Hampton1
- City of Hopewell1
- City of Newport News1
- City of Norfolk1
- City of Petersburg1
- City of Poquoson1
- City of Portsmouth1
- City of Suffolk1
- City of Virginia Beach1
- City of Williamsburg1
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. Rebuilt daily.