Alert archive / Virginia / Albemarle County

Weather alerts in Albemarle County, Virginia, 2009

62 weather alerts in 2009, 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 2009. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
62
Warnings
24
Watches
12
Advisories
0
Busiest month
June29 alerts
Busiest day
June 3, 200910 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

Albemarle County, 2009

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings161038%5100%20 min
Flash flood warnings30100%20%

Each office's whole area, 2009

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Baltimore/Washington: tornado warnings13192%813%2 min
NWS Baltimore/Washington: severe thunderstorm warnings21611348%27786%21 min
NWS Baltimore/Washington: flash flood warnings431858%5680%56 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 27, 12:25 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC4 hr
Feb 11, 3:43 PM ESTFire Weather WatchLWX15 hr
Feb 11, 5:32 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC88 min
Feb 11, 5:53 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC4 hr
Feb 11, 8:00 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC60 min
Feb 11, 8:10 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX65 min
Feb 11, 9:19 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX36 min
Feb 12, 6:49 AM ESTRed Flag WarningLWX14 hr
Feb 18, 1:05 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC4 hr
Mar 1, 5:01 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Apr 20, 2:50 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr
Apr 20, 4:57 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC93 min
Apr 21, 2:12 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
May 9, 1:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
May 16, 2:36 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC24 min
May 28, 3:49 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC56 min
May 29, 12:20 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC55 min
May 29, 1:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
May 29, 4:30 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC60 min
Jun 2, 1:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Jun 3, 12:41 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC64 min
Jun 3, 1:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC9 hr
Jun 3, 2:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX47 min
Jun 3, 4:34 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC86 min
Jun 3, 5:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX40 min
Jun 3, 5:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX26 min
Jun 3, 5:47 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWX118 min
Jun 3, 5:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX37 min
Jun 3, 6:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX45 min
Jun 3, 7:10 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC95 min
Jun 8, 7:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX46 min
Jun 8, 8:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX38 min
Jun 9, 2:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jun 9, 4:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX48 min
Jun 9, 5:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX58 min
Jun 9, 5:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX53 min
Jun 9, 6:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX41 min
Jun 9, 6:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX26 min
Jun 10, 1:57 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC93 min
Jun 10, 8:13 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWX2 hr
Jun 11, 11:51 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC84 min
Jun 11, 1:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC3 hr
Jun 11, 8:24 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC66 min
Jun 13, 7:29 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWX2 hr
Jun 20, 1:55 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC95 min
Jun 26, 9:11 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC64 min
Jun 26, 9:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX51 min
Jun 27, 1:01 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningLWX2 hr
Jul 1, 12:48 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC57 min
Jul 1, 5:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX41 min
Jul 17, 10:29 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jul 17, 12:59 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC91 min
Jul 26, 1:40 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 26, 2:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Aug 21, 12:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Nov 19, 10:15 AM ESTAreal Flood WarningLWX3 hr
Nov 19, 1:15 PM ESTAreal Flood WarningLWX3 hr
Dec 18, 7:22 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC5 hr
Dec 19, 12:34 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC5 hr
Dec 19, 6:57 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC6 hr
Dec 25, 4:17 PM ESTAreal Flood WarningLWX3 hr
Dec 30, 10:57 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC6 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.