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Gale Watches in Virginia, 2023

40 gale watches in 2023. 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 2023. Tap one for its archive.

Gale Watches
40
Busiest month
March11 gale watches
Busiest day
January 13, 20232 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 11, 3:16 PM ESTGale WatchAKQ16 hr
Jan 13, 2:51 AM ESTGale WatchLWX24 hr
Jan 13, 3:32 AM ESTGale WatchAKQ12 hr
Jan 19, 2:41 AM ESTGale WatchLWX24 hr
Jan 24, 1:33 AM ESTGale WatchLWX25 hr
Jan 24, 3:45 AM ESTGale WatchAKQ24 hr
Feb 10, 3:46 AM ESTGale WatchAKQ35 hr
Feb 10, 2:52 PM ESTGale WatchLWX23 hr
Feb 15, 3:17 AM ESTGale WatchLWX48 hr
Feb 16, 3:33 AM ESTGale WatchAKQ22 hr
Mar 1, 1:41 PM ESTGale WatchLWX24 hr
Mar 1, 3:24 PM ESTGale WatchAKQ24 hr
Mar 3, 2:43 AM ESTGale WatchAKQ7 hr
Mar 6, 2:10 AM ESTGale WatchAKQ12 hr
Mar 6, 3:31 AM ESTGale WatchLWX23 hr
Mar 9, 2:58 AM ESTGale WatchLWX24 hr
Mar 9, 3:12 AM ESTGale WatchAKQ24 hr
Mar 11, 2:37 AM ESTGale WatchLWX3 days
Mar 12, 4:05 AM EDTGale WatchAKQ36 hr
Mar 29, 3:29 AM EDTGale WatchLWX56 hr
Mar 30, 3:07 PM EDTGale WatchAKQ21 hr
Apr 7, 3:15 AM EDTGale WatchAKQ23 hr
Apr 27, 3:49 AM EDTGale WatchLWX10 hr
May 25, 1:06 PM EDTGale WatchAKQ15 hr
Jun 20, 3:50 AM EDTGale WatchLWX16 hr
Jun 20, 3:52 AM EDTGale WatchAKQ9 hr
Aug 29, 5:01 PM EDTGale WatchAKQ21 hr
Sep 20, 3:16 PM EDTGale WatchAKQ18 hr
Sep 20, 3:25 PM EDTGale WatchLWX26 hr
Oct 20, 3:51 AM EDTGale WatchAKQ11 hr
Oct 30, 8:45 PM EDTGale WatchLWX16 hr
Oct 31, 3:50 AM EDTGale WatchAKQ10 hr
Nov 16, 1:21 PM ESTGale WatchLWX24 hr
Nov 20, 3:55 AM ESTGale WatchAKQ24 hr
Nov 20, 2:27 PM ESTGale WatchLWX13 hr
Nov 26, 2:24 PM ESTGale WatchAKQ13 hr
Dec 8, 12:45 PM ESTGale WatchAKQ27 hr
Dec 8, 1:43 PM ESTGale WatchLWX30 hr
Dec 15, 3:00 AM ESTGale WatchAKQ24 hr
Dec 15, 3:14 AM ESTGale WatchLWX59 hr

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. January 13, 20232gale watches
  2. January 24, 20232gale watches
  3. February 10, 20232gale watches
  4. March 1, 20232gale watches
  5. March 6, 20232gale watches
  6. March 9, 20232gale watches
  7. June 20, 20232gale watches
  8. September 20, 20232gale watches
  9. October 31, 20232gale watches
  10. November 20, 20232gale watches
  11. December 8, 20232gale watches
  12. December 15, 20232gale 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.