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Tornado Warnings in Virginia, 1996

35 tornado warnings in 1996. 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 tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Tornado Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1996. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
35
Busiest month
July13 tornado warnings
Busiest day
June 24, 19966 tornado warnings

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
Apr 15, 8:35 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQGreensville, City of Emporia25 min
Jun 10, 8:19 AM EDTTornado WarningRNKHenry31 min
Jun 10, 8:28 AM EDTTornado WarningRNKPittsylvania47 min
Jun 10, 9:13 AM EDTTornado WarningRNKPittsylvania47 min
Jun 10, 10:16 AM EDTTornado WarningRNKCampbell59 min
Jun 11, 7:47 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXKing George28 min
Jun 24, 4:17 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXFauquier, Loudoun28 min
Jun 24, 4:45 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXFairfax, City of Fairfax35 min
Jun 24, 5:01 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXFairfax, City of Falls Church49 min
Jun 24, 5:01 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXCity of Alexandria49 min
Jun 24, 5:01 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXCity of Fairfax49 min
Jun 24, 7:15 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQAmelia45 min
Jun 24, 10:06 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQCity of Suffolk39 min
Jul 12, 2:58 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQSouthampton32 min
Jul 12, 10:04 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQIsle of Wight, City of Suffolk26 min
Jul 12, 10:31 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQSurry29 min
Jul 12, 11:03 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQGloucester42 min
Jul 13, 1:11 AM EDTTornado WarningAKQNorthumberland, Westmoreland49 min
Jul 13, 3:02 AM EDTTornado WarningLWXSpotsylvania33 min
Jul 14, 7:03 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXSpotsylvania, Stafford, City of Fredericksburg32 min
Jul 15, 6:06 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQCharles City, Prince George54 min
Jul 15, 6:06 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQCity of Hopewell54 min
Jul 15, 7:46 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQGloucester29 min
Jul 19, 3:20 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXLoudoun35 min
Jul 19, 4:01 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXFairfax49 min
Jul 19, 4:08 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXLoudoun47 min
Aug 16, 5:10 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXArlington, City of Falls Church50 min
Sep 4, 10:45 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQNorthumberland45 min
Sep 6, 1:55 AM EDTTornado WarningAKQSouthampton20 min
Sep 6, 2:51 AM EDTTornado WarningAKQDinwiddie, Nottoway34 min
Sep 6, 3:50 AM EDTTornado WarningAKQAmelia, Dinwiddie35 min
Sep 6, 5:40 AM EDTTornado WarningAKQHenrico20 min
Nov 8, 12:44 PM ESTTornado WarningRNKHenry, City of Martinsville41 min
Nov 8, 1:35 PM ESTTornado WarningLWXKing George35 min
Nov 8, 2:46 PM ESTTornado WarningAKQChesterfield, Henrico19 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. June 24, 19966tornado warnings
  2. July 13, 19965tornado warnings
  3. June 10, 19964tornado warnings
  4. September 6, 19964tornado warnings
  5. July 15, 19963tornado warnings
  6. July 19, 19963tornado warnings
  7. November 8, 19963tornado warnings
  8. April 16, 19961tornado warnings
  9. June 11, 19961tornado warnings
  10. June 25, 19961tornado warnings
  11. July 12, 19961tornado warnings
  12. July 14, 19961tornado warnings

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.