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Gale Watches in Virginia, 2016

16 gale watches in 2016. 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 watches reaches back to 2005.

Gale Watches by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2016. Tap one for its archive.

Gale Watches
16
Busiest month
December4 gale watches
Busiest day
December 14, 20162 gale watches

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 3, 3:12 AM ESTGale WatchAKQ24 hr
Jan 9, 3:16 PM ESTGale WatchAKQ12 hr
Jan 21, 4:24 AM ESTGale WatchAKQ12 hr
Feb 5, 4:43 PM ESTGale WatchAKQ23 hr
Feb 23, 4:16 PM ESTGale WatchAKQ12 hr
Mar 18, 4:12 PM EDTGale WatchAKQ12 hr
May 19, 4:02 PM EDTGale WatchAKQ23 hr
Jun 15, 4:12 PM EDTGale WatchAKQ24 hr
Oct 7, 11:01 AM EDTGale WatchAKQ17 hr
Oct 20, 3:37 AM EDTGale WatchAKQ12 hr
Nov 8, 3:56 PM ESTGale WatchAKQ12 hr
Nov 18, 3:23 AM ESTGale WatchAKQ13 hr
Dec 5, 3:26 PM ESTGale WatchAKQ12 hr
Dec 14, 3:33 AM ESTGale WatchAKQ2 hr
Dec 14, 6:02 AM ESTGale WatchAKQ9 hr
Dec 28, 3:50 AM ESTGale WatchAKQ12 hr

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. December 14, 20162gale watches
  2. January 3, 20161gale watches
  3. January 9, 20161gale watches
  4. January 21, 20161gale watches
  5. February 5, 20161gale watches
  6. February 23, 20161gale watches
  7. March 18, 20161gale watches
  8. May 19, 20161gale watches
  9. June 15, 20161gale watches
  10. October 7, 20161gale watches
  11. October 20, 20161gale watches
  12. November 8, 20161gale watches

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.