Alert archive / Virginia / Tornado Warnings / 2008
Tornado Warnings in Virginia, May 2008
26 tornado warnings in May 2008. 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 May 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 26
- Busiest day
- May 9, 200818 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 7:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Franklin, Henry, Patrick | 67 min |
| May 8, 7:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Franklin, Pittsylvania | 48 min |
| May 8, 8:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Carroll, Floyd, Patrick | 42 min |
| May 8, 8:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Fluvanna, Louisa | 55 min |
| May 8, 8:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Patrick | 40 min |
| May 8, 8:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Albemarle, Nelson, City of Charlottesville | 40 min |
| May 8, 8:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Bedford, Campbell, Franklin, Pittsylvania | 46 min |
| May 8, 8:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Franklin, Henry, Patrick | 30 min |
| May 8, 9:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Louisa | 33 min |
| May 8, 9:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Campbell, Charlotte, Halifax, Pittsylvania | 59 min |
| May 8, 9:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Franklin, Henry, Pittsylvania | 50 min |
| May 8, 9:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Henry, Patrick, City of Martinsville | 45 min |
| May 8, 9:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Albemarle, Augusta, Greene, Rockingham | 49 min |
| May 8, 10:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Culpeper, Fauquier, Orange, Spotsylvania, Stafford | 28 min |
| May 8, 10:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Culpeper, Spotsylvania, Stafford, City of Fredericksburg | 43 min |
| May 8, 11:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Fairfax, Prince William, Stafford | 42 min |
| May 9, 12:50 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Lunenburg, Mecklenburg | 40 min |
| May 9, 3:31 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Brunswick, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Nottoway | 33 min |
| May 9, 5:11 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Gloucester, Lancaster, Middlesex | 34 min |
| May 9, 5:24 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | King and Queen, King William, New Kent | 36 min |
| May 11, 11:16 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Lee, Wise | 29 min |
| May 11, 2:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania | 18 min |
| May 11, 5:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Dinwiddie, Prince George, Southampton, Sussex | 26 min |
| May 31, 4:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Caroline | 20 min |
| May 31, 4:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Caroline, Essex, Hanover, King and Queen, King William | 23 min |
| May 31, 5:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | King and Queen | 17 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Franklin County5
- Patrick County5
- Pittsylvania County5
- Henry County4
- Stafford County3
- King and Queen County3
- Louisa County2
- Albemarle County2
- Campbell County2
- Culpeper County2
- Spotsylvania County2
- Lunenburg County2
- Mecklenburg County2
- King William County2
- Caroline County2
- Carroll County1
- Floyd County1
- Fluvanna County1
- Nelson County1
- City of Charlottesville1
- Bedford County1
- Charlotte County1
- Halifax County1
- City of Martinsville1
- Augusta County1
- Greene County1
- Rockingham County1
- Fauquier County1
- Orange County1
- City of Fredericksburg1
- Fairfax County1
- Prince William County1
- Brunswick County1
- Nottoway County1
- Gloucester County1
- Lancaster County1
- Middlesex County1
- New Kent County1
- Lee County1
- Wise 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.