Alert archive / Virginia / Tornado Warnings / 1998
Tornado Warnings in Virginia, April 1998
17 tornado warnings in April 1998. 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 April 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 17
- Busiest day
- April 1, 19985 tornado warnings
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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 | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 2:09 PM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Lunenburg | 31 min |
| Apr 1, 2:12 PM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Nottoway | 33 min |
| Apr 1, 2:20 PM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | City of Suffolk | 35 min |
| Apr 1, 2:45 PM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth | 20 min |
| Apr 1, 6:50 PM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Caroline, Hanover | 25 min |
| Apr 1, 7:43 PM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Essex, King and Queen | 32 min |
| Apr 1, 8:16 PM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Essex, Richmond | 29 min |
| Apr 9, 4:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach | 36 min |
| Apr 9, 7:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth | 31 min |
| Apr 9, 7:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | City of Suffolk | 31 min |
| Apr 16, 7:07 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Lee | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 7:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Lee | 65 min |
| Apr 16, 8:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Scott | 63 min |
| Apr 16, 8:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Lee | 46 min |
| Apr 19, 8:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Charles City | 31 min |
| Apr 19, 8:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | New Kent | 21 min |
| Apr 19, 8:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Gloucester, Middlesex | 18 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lee County3
- City of Suffolk2
- City of Norfolk2
- City of Portsmouth2
- Essex County2
- City of Chesapeake2
- Lunenburg County1
- Nottoway County1
- Caroline County1
- Hanover County1
- King and Queen County1
- Richmond County1
- City of Virginia Beach1
- Scott County1
- Charles City County1
- New Kent County1
- Gloucester County1
- Middlesex County1
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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.