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Gale Watches in Virginia, 2019

17 gale watches in 2019. 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 2019. Tap one for its archive.

Gale Watches
17
Busiest month
April4 gale watches
Busiest day
April 1, 20192 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 8, 3:29 AM ESTGale WatchAKQ12 hr
Jan 18, 3:56 PM ESTGale WatchAKQ11 hr
Feb 23, 4:06 AM ESTGale WatchAKQ11 hr
Mar 21, 3:06 PM EDTGale WatchAKQ12 hr
Mar 24, 3:21 PM EDTGale WatchAKQ12 hr
Mar 31, 3:34 AM EDTGale WatchAKQ12 hr
Apr 1, 3:17 AM EDTGale WatchAKQ13 hr
Apr 1, 4:00 PM EDTGale WatchAKQ11 hr
Apr 18, 3:14 AM EDTGale WatchAKQ13 hr
Apr 18, 3:47 PM EDTGale WatchAKQ11 hr
Oct 15, 3:54 AM EDTGale WatchAKQ24 hr
Oct 18, 3:18 PM EDTGale WatchAKQ25 hr
Oct 30, 3:52 PM EDTGale WatchAKQ12 hr
Nov 6, 3:35 PM ESTGale WatchAKQ12 hr
Nov 11, 4:04 AM ESTGale WatchAKQ23 hr
Nov 14, 3:44 AM ESTGale WatchAKQ24 hr
Nov 26, 3:27 PM ESTGale WatchAKQ25 hr

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. April 1, 20192gale watches
  2. April 18, 20192gale watches
  3. January 8, 20191gale watches
  4. January 18, 20191gale watches
  5. February 23, 20191gale watches
  6. March 21, 20191gale watches
  7. March 24, 20191gale watches
  8. March 31, 20191gale watches
  9. October 15, 20191gale watches
  10. October 18, 20191gale watches
  11. October 30, 20191gale watches
  12. November 6, 20191gale 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.