Alert archive / Virginia / 2002
Weather alerts in Virginia, March 2002
14 weather alerts in March 2002, 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 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 14
- Warnings
- 13
- Watches
- 1
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- March 18, 20027 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 10, 12:30 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 90 min | |
| Mar 17, 8:48 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Wise | 5 hr |
| Mar 17, 9:40 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Lee, Russell, Scott, Washington, Wise | 4 hr |
| Mar 17, 11:15 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Wythe | 4 hr |
| Mar 18, 12:36 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Tazewell | 3 hr |
| Mar 18, 12:46 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Smyth | 6 hr |
| Mar 18, 1:55 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Lee, Russell, Scott, Washington, Wise, City of Norton | 6 hr |
| Mar 18, 3:04 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Tazewell, Wythe | 6 hr |
| Mar 26, 7:21 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 114 min | |
| Mar 26, 7:21 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 114 min | |
| Mar 26, 7:21 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 114 min | |
| Mar 26, 7:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Accomack, Amelia, Brunswick, Charles City, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie and 37 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 26, 7:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Brunswick, Dinwiddie | 30 min |
| Mar 26, 8:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Chesterfield, Henrico | 29 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 | 2 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 7 |
| Marine | |
| Special Marine Warning | 4 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Wise County3
- Lee County2
- Russell County2
- Scott County2
- Washington County2
- Wythe County2
- Tazewell County2
- Brunswick County2
- Chesterfield County2
- Dinwiddie County2
- Henrico County2
- Smyth County1
- City of Norton1
- Accomack County1
- Amelia County1
- Charles City County1
- Gloucester County1
- Greensville County1
- Isle of Wight County1
- James City County1
- King and Queen County1
- King William County1
- Lancaster County1
- Lunenburg County1
- Mathews County1
- Mecklenburg County1
- Middlesex County1
- New Kent County1
- Northampton County1
- Northumberland County1
- Nottoway County1
- Prince George County1
- Richmond County1
- Southampton County1
- Surry County1
- Sussex County1
- York County1
- City of Chesapeake1
- City of Colonial Heights1
- City of Emporia1
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.