Alert archive / Virginia / Fairfax County
Weather alerts in Fairfax County, Virginia, 1997
14 weather alerts in 1997, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Fairfax County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 14
- Warnings
- 8
- Watches
- 6
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest month
- June7 alerts
- Busiest day
- June 18, 19974 alerts
Over time
By month
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 | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 12:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jun 13, 1:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | 49 min |
| Jun 18, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jun 18, 6:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | 33 min |
| Jun 18, 6:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | 31 min |
| Jun 18, 7:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | 63 min |
| Jun 26, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jun 26, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | 61 min |
| Jul 9, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jul 28, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Aug 17, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Aug 17, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | 46 min |
| Aug 17, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | 46 min |
| Sep 2, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | 47 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 | 8 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 6 |
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.