Alert archive / Virginia

Gale Warnings in Virginia

958 gale warnings since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of gale warnings reaches back to 2005.

Gale Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Gale Warnings
958
Busiest year
201667 gale warnings
Average year
50over 19 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

The latest gale warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 22, 2:17 AM EDTGale WarningLWX52 hr
Sep 22, 1:58 AM EDTGale WarningAKQ4 days
Jun 17, 9:38 PM EDTGale WarningLWX22 hr
Jun 17, 2:11 PM EDTGale WarningAKQ32 hr
Apr 25, 3:08 PM EDTGale WarningAKQ31 hr
Mar 27, 12:51 PM EDTGale WarningAKQ24 hr
Mar 23, 4:00 PM EDTGale WarningLWX6 hr
Mar 15, 2:37 PM EDTGale WarningLWX34 hr
Mar 15, 1:21 PM EDTGale WarningAKQ36 hr
Mar 13, 2:57 PM EDTGale WarningLWX5 hr
Mar 11, 2:59 PM EDTGale WarningAKQ28 hr
Feb 21, 1:05 PM ESTGale WarningAKQ53 hr

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.