Alert archive / Virginia / 1999
Weather alerts in Virginia, May 1999
44 weather alerts in May 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 May 1999. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 44
- Warnings
- 43
- Watches
- 1
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 24, 199915 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 7, 3:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Lee | 62 min |
| May 7, 4:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Lee | 62 min |
| May 7, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Smyth | 67 min |
| May 7, 5:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Wythe | 33 min |
| May 7, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Bland | 33 min |
| May 7, 5:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Grayson | 34 min |
| May 7, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Giles | 50 min |
| May 7, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pulaski | 37 min |
| May 7, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Giles, Montgomery | 37 min |
| May 7, 6:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Craig | 52 min |
| May 7, 7:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Botetourt | 37 min |
| May 7, 7:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Henry | 34 min |
| May 7, 7:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Patrick | 49 min |
| May 7, 7:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Franklin | 33 min |
| May 7, 8:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania | 50 min |
| May 7, 8:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Wythe | 63 min |
| May 7, 8:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Henry | 36 min |
| May 7, 8:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pulaski | 51 min |
| May 7, 8:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Franklin | 51 min |
| May 7, 8:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Giles | 50 min |
| May 7, 9:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Campbell | 37 min |
| May 7, 10:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Carroll | 33 min |
| May 7, 10:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Floyd | 63 min |
| May 7, 11:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Roanoke, City of Roanoke | 34 min |
| May 8, 12:03 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Prince William, City of Manassas, City of Manassas Park | 32 min |
| May 13, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania | 37 min |
| May 13, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania | 36 min |
| May 13, 8:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Mecklenburg | 46 min |
| May 18, 8:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Grayson | 3 hr |
| May 24, 1:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Accomack, Amelia, Arlington, Brunswick, Caroline, Charles City and 62 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 1:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | King William | 46 min |
| May 24, 1:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Arlington | 35 min |
| May 24, 1:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | City of Falls Church | 35 min |
| May 24, 1:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | King and Queen | 34 min |
| May 24, 2:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Essex, Richmond | 49 min |
| May 24, 2:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | York | 33 min |
| May 24, 2:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Gloucester | 33 min |
| May 24, 2:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight | 31 min |
| May 24, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Mathews | 35 min |
| May 24, 3:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Suffolk | 32 min |
| May 24, 3:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Portsmouth | 31 min |
| May 24, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Norfolk | 31 min |
| May 24, 4:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Virginia Beach | 34 min |
| May 24, 4:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Accomack | 33 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 | 41 |
| Tornado Warning | 1 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 1 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Giles County3
- Pittsylvania County3
- Lee County2
- Wythe County2
- Grayson County2
- Pulaski County2
- Henry County2
- Franklin County2
- Prince William County2
- City of Manassas2
- City of Manassas Park2
- Mecklenburg County2
- Accomack County2
- Arlington County2
- Essex County2
- Gloucester County2
- Isle of Wight County2
- King and Queen County2
- King William County2
- Mathews County2
- Richmond County2
- York County2
- City of Chesapeake2
- City of Falls Church2
- City of Norfolk2
- City of Portsmouth2
- City of Suffolk2
- City of Virginia Beach2
- Smyth County1
- Bland County1
- Montgomery County1
- Craig County1
- Botetourt County1
- Patrick County1
- Campbell County1
- Carroll County1
- Floyd County1
- Roanoke County1
- City of Roanoke1
- Amelia County1
47 more counties
- Brunswick County1
- Caroline County1
- Charles City County1
- Chesterfield County1
- Culpeper County1
- Cumberland County1
- Dinwiddie County1
- Fairfax County1
- Fauquier County1
- Goochland County1
- Greensville County1
- Hanover County1
- Henrico County1
- James City County1
- King George County1
- Lancaster County1
- Loudoun County1
- Louisa County1
- Lunenburg County1
- Middlesex County1
- New Kent County1
- Northampton County1
- Northumberland County1
- Nottoway County1
- Orange County1
- Powhatan County1
- Prince Edward County1
- Prince George County1
- Southampton County1
- Spotsylvania County1
- Stafford County1
- Surry County1
- Sussex County1
- Westmoreland County1
- City of Alexandria1
- City of Colonial Heights1
- City of Emporia1
- City of Fairfax1
- City of Franklin1
- City of Fredericksburg1
- City of Hampton1
- City of Hopewell1
- City of Newport News1
- City of Petersburg1
- City of Poquoson1
- City of Richmond1
- City of Williamsburg1
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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.