Alert archive / Virginia / 1999
Weather alerts in Virginia, March 1999
24 weather alerts in March 1999, 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 1999. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 24
- Warnings
- 21
- Watches
- 3
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- March 3, 199923 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 3, 1:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Sussex | 36 min |
| Mar 3, 4:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Brunswick | 31 min |
| Mar 3, 4:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Accomack, Amelia, Brunswick, Caroline, Charles City, Chesterfield and 51 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 3, 5:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Albemarle, City of Charlottesville | 49 min |
| Mar 3, 5:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Greensville, City of Emporia | 19 min |
| Mar 3, 5:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Colonial Heights, City of Petersburg | 19 min |
| Mar 3, 5:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Chesterfield | 20 min |
| Mar 3, 5:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Madison | 35 min |
| Mar 3, 5:40 PM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | City of Colonial Heights, City of Petersburg | 20 min |
| Mar 3, 5:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Culpeper, Rappahannock | 34 min |
| Mar 3, 5:49 PM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Chesterfield, Henrico | 31 min |
| Mar 3, 5:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Hanover, King William | 36 min |
| Mar 3, 6:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Hanover, Henrico | 35 min |
| Mar 3, 6:22 PM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | King and Queen | 33 min |
| Mar 3, 6:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Caroline | 15 min |
| Mar 3, 6:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arlington, Clarke, Fairfax, Fauquier, Loudoun, Prince William and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 3, 6:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Norfolk | 17 min |
| Mar 3, 6:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Hampton | 17 min |
| Mar 3, 6:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Gloucester | 30 min |
| Mar 3, 6:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Mathews | 32 min |
| Mar 3, 6:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Essex, Middlesex | 32 min |
| Mar 3, 6:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Lancaster, Richmond | 34 min |
| Mar 3, 6:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Northumberland, Westmoreland | 30 min |
| Mar 21, 4:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Charles City, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Gloucester, Greensville, Henrico and 26 more | 5 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 | 18 |
| Tornado Warning | 3 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 2 |
| Tornado Watch | 1 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Chesterfield County4
- Henrico County4
- City of Colonial Heights4
- City of Petersburg4
- Sussex County3
- Gloucester County3
- Greensville County3
- Hanover County3
- Mathews County3
- Middlesex County3
- City of Emporia3
- City of Hampton3
- City of Norfolk3
- Brunswick County2
- Caroline County2
- Charles City County2
- Culpeper County2
- Dinwiddie County2
- Essex County2
- Isle of Wight County2
- James City County2
- King and Queen County2
- King William County2
- Lancaster County2
- New Kent County2
- Northampton County2
- Northumberland County2
- Prince George County2
- Richmond County2
- Southampton County2
- Surry County2
- Westmoreland County2
- York County2
- City of Chesapeake2
- City of Franklin2
- City of Hopewell2
- City of Newport News2
- City of Poquoson2
- City of Portsmouth2
- City of Richmond2
34 more counties
- City of Suffolk2
- City of Virginia Beach2
- City of Williamsburg2
- Rappahannock County2
- Accomack County1
- Amelia County1
- Cumberland County1
- Goochland County1
- King George County1
- Louisa County1
- Lunenburg County1
- Mecklenburg County1
- Nottoway County1
- Orange County1
- Powhatan County1
- Spotsylvania County1
- Stafford County1
- City of Fredericksburg1
- Albemarle County1
- City of Charlottesville1
- Madison County1
- Arlington County1
- Clarke County1
- Fairfax County1
- Fauquier County1
- Loudoun County1
- Prince William County1
- Warren County1
- City of Alexandria1
- City of Fairfax1
- City of Falls Church1
- City of Manassas1
- City of Manassas Park1
- City of Winchester1
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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.