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Gale Watches in Virginia, 2021

24 gale watches in 2021. 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 2021. Tap one for its archive.

Gale Watches
24
Busiest month
November7 gale watches
Busiest day
October 27, 20212 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 22, 2:52 AM ESTGale WatchAKQ13 hr
Jan 26, 8:59 AM ESTGale WatchAKQ18 hr
Jan 30, 3:37 PM ESTGale WatchAKQ6 hr
Feb 28, 2:59 AM ESTGale WatchAKQ24 hr
Mar 17, 2:14 PM EDTGale WatchAKQ14 hr
Apr 19, 3:22 PM EDTGale WatchLWX37 hr
Apr 28, 12:09 PM EDTGale WatchLWX26 hr
Apr 29, 3:12 AM EDTGale WatchAKQ12 hr
May 4, 4:08 AM EDTGale WatchLWX24 hr
Aug 31, 3:37 PM EDTGale WatchAKQ12 hr
Oct 14, 12:21 PM EDTGale WatchLWX32 hr
Oct 24, 10:04 AM EDTGale WatchLWX24 hr
Oct 25, 3:03 AM EDTGale WatchAKQ12 hr
Oct 27, 9:43 AM EDTGale WatchLWX15 hr
Oct 27, 3:30 PM EDTGale WatchAKQ21 hr
Nov 5, 10:07 AM EDTGale WatchAKQ17 hr
Nov 6, 2:52 AM EDTGale WatchAKQ12 hr
Nov 13, 1:40 PM ESTGale WatchLWX23 hr
Nov 19, 3:30 AM ESTGale WatchLWX58 hr
Nov 21, 3:55 AM ESTGale WatchAKQ24 hr
Nov 23, 7:44 AM ESTGale WatchLWX44 hr
Nov 24, 2:53 PM ESTGale WatchAKQ13 hr
Dec 7, 9:05 PM ESTGale WatchLWX54 hr
Dec 16, 11:20 AM ESTGale WatchLWX38 hr

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. October 27, 20212gale watches
  2. January 22, 20211gale watches
  3. January 26, 20211gale watches
  4. January 30, 20211gale watches
  5. February 28, 20211gale watches
  6. March 17, 20211gale watches
  7. April 19, 20211gale watches
  8. April 28, 20211gale watches
  9. April 29, 20211gale watches
  10. May 4, 20211gale watches
  11. August 31, 20211gale watches
  12. October 14, 20211gale 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.