Alert archive / Virginia / Albemarle County

Weather alerts in Albemarle County, Virginia, 2008

87 weather alerts in 2008, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Albemarle County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2008. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
87
Warnings
37
Watches
19
Advisories
0
Busiest month
June41 alerts
Busiest day
June 4, 200813 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

0 of 2 tornado warnings covering Albemarle County in 2008 had a tornado report inside them.

Albemarle County, 2008

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings20100%0
Severe thunderstorm warnings281739%9100%18 min
Flash flood warnings2150%2100%207 min

Each office's whole area, 2008

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Baltimore/Washington: tornado warnings36878%2143%18 min
NWS Baltimore/Washington: severe thunderstorm warnings39122044%57976%21 min
NWS Baltimore/Washington: flash flood warnings231152%5375%117 min

An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 17, 7:51 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC4 hr
Jan 17, 12:53 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC4 hr
Feb 6, 4:49 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC86 min
Feb 9, 4:10 AM ESTFire Weather WatchLWX24 hr
Feb 10, 4:00 AM ESTRed Flag WarningLWX18 hr
Feb 12, 4:15 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC6 hr
Feb 22, 12:40 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC6 hr
Feb 29, 2:13 PM ESTFire Weather WatchLWX15 hr
Mar 1, 5:10 AM ESTRed Flag WarningLWX13 hr
Mar 4, 5:53 PM ESTTornado WatchSPC9 hr
Mar 4, 9:13 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX47 min
Mar 19, 11:28 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC62 min
Apr 26, 4:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX41 min
May 8, 6:12 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC63 min
May 8, 6:48 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC9 hr
May 8, 7:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX32 min
May 8, 8:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX52 min
May 8, 8:35 PM EDTTornado WarningLWX40 min
May 8, 9:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX57 min
May 8, 9:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX48 min
May 8, 9:47 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC58 min
May 8, 9:56 PM EDTTornado WarningLWX49 min
May 8, 10:19 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWX4 hr
May 9, 2:36 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningLWX6 hr
May 9, 8:34 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningLWX4 hr
May 31, 12:05 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC55 min
May 31, 3:07 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr
Jun 1, 6:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX31 min
Jun 4, 12:18 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC87 min
Jun 4, 2:26 AM EDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr
Jun 4, 4:00 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX60 min
Jun 4, 7:23 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC97 min
Jun 4, 12:49 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr
Jun 4, 4:04 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC116 min
Jun 4, 6:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX40 min
Jun 4, 7:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX45 min
Jun 4, 7:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX20 min
Jun 4, 7:13 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC62 min
Jun 4, 7:34 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC5 hr
Jun 4, 7:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX41 min
Jun 4, 7:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX33 min
Jun 6, 2:34 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jun 7, 6:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX48 min
Jun 10, 2:27 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC63 min
Jun 10, 2:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jun 10, 6:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX48 min
Jun 14, 12:10 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC95 min
Jun 14, 4:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX43 min
Jun 16, 12:54 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jun 16, 1:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC10 hr
Jun 16, 2:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX45 min
Jun 16, 2:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX71 min
Jun 16, 3:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX59 min
Jun 16, 4:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX40 min
Jun 16, 6:55 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC95 min
Jun 22, 1:09 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX37 min
Jun 22, 12:16 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC89 min
Jun 22, 1:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC11 hr
Jun 22, 2:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX50 min
Jun 22, 2:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX23 min
Jun 22, 3:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX26 min
Jun 22, 4:28 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC92 min
Jun 23, 5:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr
Jun 27, 11:37 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jun 27, 12:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jun 27, 1:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX55 min
Jun 29, 4:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC9 hr
Jun 29, 9:30 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 4, 3:48 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC117 min
Jul 7, 6:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX35 min
Jul 8, 2:46 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 8, 12:34 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC86 min
Jul 8, 6:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX40 min
Jul 13, 1:03 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC87 min
Jul 22, 7:59 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC91 min
Jul 23, 3:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Jul 27, 11:03 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC57 min
Jul 27, 11:26 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Aug 2, 1:18 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC57 min
Aug 2, 1:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Aug 2, 7:09 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC96 min
Aug 10, 1:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Aug 10, 2:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX52 min
Sep 6, 4:22 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Sep 6, 8:38 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWX6 hr
Oct 20, 1:52 PM EDTFire Weather WatchLWX20 hr
Dec 31, 11:18 AM ESTRed Flag WarningLWX7 hr

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.