Alert archive / Virginia / Prince William County

Weather alerts in Prince William County, Virginia, 2015

74 weather alerts in 2015, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Prince William County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2015. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
74
Warnings
34
Watches
7
Advisories
0
Busiest month
June41 alerts
Busiest day
June 20, 20158 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 Prince William County in 2015 had a tornado report inside them.

Prince William County, 2015

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings30100%0
Severe thunderstorm warnings272315%1292%15 min
Flash flood warnings220%450%13 min

Each office's whole area, 2015

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Baltimore/Washington: tornado warnings17288%450%5 min
NWS Baltimore/Washington: severe thunderstorm warnings23515335%52675%16 min
NWS Baltimore/Washington: flash flood warnings894747%13874%64 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 5, 7:58 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC5 hr
Mar 5, 11:55 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC6 hr
Mar 26, 6:12 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Apr 20, 1:54 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Apr 20, 3:08 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC9 hr
Apr 20, 5:01 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC119 min
Apr 20, 7:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX48 min
Apr 20, 8:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX49 min
Apr 22, 12:32 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC118 min
May 6, 3:21 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC114 min
May 6, 4:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX22 min
May 16, 1:35 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
May 27, 12:21 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC54 min
May 27, 2:59 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jun 8, 2:34 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC5 hr
Jun 8, 4:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX36 min
Jun 8, 4:46 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC59 min
Jun 8, 6:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX32 min
Jun 8, 7:07 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC53 min
Jun 8, 7:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC2 hr
Jun 12, 2:03 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC87 min
Jun 14, 2:06 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC84 min
Jun 16, 12:15 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jun 18, 4:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX30 min
Jun 18, 4:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX42 min
Jun 18, 5:35 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC55 min
Jun 20, 1:36 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC114 min
Jun 20, 2:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC9 hr
Jun 20, 6:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX34 min
Jun 20, 6:24 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC96 min
Jun 20, 7:05 PM EDTTornado WarningLWX25 min
Jun 20, 7:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX39 min
Jun 20, 7:32 PM EDTTornado WarningLWX28 min
Jun 20, 7:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX27 min
Jun 20, 8:33 PM EDTTornado WarningLWX1 min
Jun 20, 8:50 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWX3 hr
Jun 20, 11:35 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningLWX11 hr
Jun 23, 1:45 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Jun 23, 4:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jun 23, 5:47 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC88 min
Jun 23, 6:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX48 min
Jun 23, 6:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX29 min
Jun 23, 7:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX46 min
Jun 23, 7:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX31 min
Jun 23, 7:41 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC94 min
Jun 23, 8:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX30 min
Jun 25, 9:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX42 min
Jun 27, 12:56 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Jun 27, 2:38 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWX3 hr
Jun 27, 3:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX31 min
Jun 27, 6:23 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jun 27, 8:48 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningLWX117 min
Jun 30, 1:38 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Jun 30, 2:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jun 30, 4:15 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jun 30, 11:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX24 min
Jun 30, 11:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX35 min
Jul 1, 12:11 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX34 min
Jul 1, 12:33 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX27 min
Jul 6, 1:01 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 14, 6:10 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 14, 6:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC4 hr
Jul 14, 9:26 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC94 min
Aug 4, 4:14 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX46 min
Aug 4, 3:48 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Aug 4, 8:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX50 min
Aug 11, 1:30 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Aug 20, 3:45 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Aug 20, 6:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX49 min
Aug 24, 6:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX26 min
Sep 2, 3:35 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC85 min
Sep 4, 2:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX48 min
Sep 4, 3:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX26 min
Sep 29, 6:20 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC85 min

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

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.