Alert archive / Virginia / Louisa County
Weather alerts in Louisa County, Virginia, 2008
77 weather alerts in 2008, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Louisa County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 77
- Warnings
- 21
- Watches
- 16
- Advisories
- 4
- Busiest month
- June33 alerts
- Busiest day
- June 4, 200810 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
0 of 3 tornado warnings covering Louisa County in 2008 had a tornado report inside them.
Louisa County, 2008
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 3 | 0 | 100% | 0 | ||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 16 | 10 | 38% | 14 | 79% | 18 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 2 | 1 | 50% | 2 | 100% | 136 min |
Each office's whole area, 2008
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Wakefield, VA: tornado warnings | 70 | 20 | 71% | 65 | 60% | 11 min |
| NWS Wakefield, VA: severe thunderstorm warnings | 288 | 138 | 52% | 333 | 73% | 22 min |
| NWS Wakefield, VA: flash flood warnings | 19 | 12 | 37% | 29 | 59% | 94 min |
An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.
Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 17, 7:51 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 4 hr |
| Feb 6, 4:49 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 86 min |
| Feb 22, 12:40 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 6 hr |
| Mar 4, 5:53 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
| Mar 19, 11:28 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 62 min |
| May 8, 8:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | 55 min |
| May 8, 8:38 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| May 8, 9:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | 33 min |
| May 8, 9:47 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 58 min |
| May 9, 2:32 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 88 min |
| May 16, 2:20 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 55 min |
| May 31, 12:05 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 55 min |
| May 31, 3:07 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| May 31, 3:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | 47 min |
| May 31, 3:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | 63 min |
| Jun 1, 6:58 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 92 min |
| Jun 4, 12:18 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 87 min |
| Jun 4, 2:26 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jun 4, 2:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | 52 min |
| Jun 4, 7:23 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 97 min |
| Jun 4, 12:49 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jun 4, 2:01 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 59 min |
| Jun 4, 4:04 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 116 min |
| Jun 4, 7:13 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 62 min |
| Jun 4, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | 66 min |
| Jun 4, 7:34 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Jun 4, 8:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | 46 min |
| Jun 4, 9:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | 37 min |
| Jun 6, 2:34 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jun 7, 6:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | 51 min |
| Jun 10, 2:27 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 63 min |
| Jun 10, 6:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | 39 min |
| Jun 10, 9:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | 16 min |
| Jun 14, 12:10 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 95 min |
| Jun 16, 12:54 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jun 16, 3:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | 63 min |
| Jun 16, 6:55 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 95 min |
| Jun 21, 8:12 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | 63 min |
| Jun 22, 4:28 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 92 min |
| Jun 22, 4:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | 45 min |
| Jun 27, 11:37 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jun 27, 12:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jun 29, 4:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
| Jun 29, 9:30 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jun 30, 7:52 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 113 min |
| Jul 4, 3:48 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 117 min |
| Jul 5, 8:01 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | 119 min |
| Jul 5, 9:02 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | 118 min |
| Jul 6, 8:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | 35 min |
| Jul 7, 7:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | 21 min |
| Jul 8, 2:46 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jul 8, 12:34 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 86 min |
| Jul 8, 1:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
| Jul 9, 4:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Jul 9, 6:41 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 94 min |
| Jul 23, 12:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jul 23, 3:54 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 66 min |
| Jul 23, 8:22 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 53 min |
| Jul 23, 9:22 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | 113 min |
| Jul 23, 10:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | 3 hr |
| Jul 27, 11:03 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 57 min |
| Jul 27, 1:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Aug 2, 1:18 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 57 min |
| Aug 2, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | 65 min |
| Aug 2, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Aug 2, 7:09 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 96 min |
| Aug 15, 12:50 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 85 min |
| Aug 15, 1:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Sep 6, 4:22 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Sep 6, 10:10 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | AKQ | 4 hr |
| Sep 9, 8:35 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 115 min |
| Sep 13, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | 30 min |
| Nov 15, 11:07 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 53 min |
| Nov 15, 12:22 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 16 |
| Tornado Warning | 3 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 9 |
| Tornado Watch | 7 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 36 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 2 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 4 |
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.