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Tornado Warnings in Virginia, 2009

57 tornado warnings in 2009. 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 2009. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
57
Busiest month
June19 tornado warnings
Busiest day
May 9, 20099 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
Feb 11, 5:46 PM ESTTornado WarningMRXRussell, Scott, Wise44 min
Apr 6, 10:08 AM EDTTornado WarningAKQIsle of Wight, Southampton, City of Franklin, City of Suffolk37 min
Apr 10, 4:40 PM EDTTornado WarningMRXLee33 min
Apr 10, 5:18 PM EDTTornado WarningMRXLee42 min
Apr 10, 5:45 PM EDTTornado WarningMRXLee, Scott, Wise, City of Norton60 min
Apr 20, 4:22 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQDinwiddie, City of Petersburg24 min
Apr 20, 4:29 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQCharles City, Dinwiddie, Prince George, City of Colonial Heights, City of Hopewell, City of Petersburg46 min
Apr 20, 5:18 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQGloucester, King and Queen, Lancaster, Middlesex27 min
Apr 20, 5:24 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQCharles City, James City, King and Queen, New Kent36 min
Apr 20, 7:50 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQIsle of Wight25 min
May 4, 7:37 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQCity of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach38 min
May 6, 10:05 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQLunenburg25 min
May 6, 10:28 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQNottoway, Prince Edward32 min
May 6, 10:52 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQAmelia28 min
May 8, 8:51 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXBuchanan, Dickenson24 min
May 8, 9:15 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXBuchanan30 min
May 8, 9:18 PM EDTTornado WarningMRXRussell27 min
May 8, 9:22 PM EDTTornado WarningMRXRussell, Scott, Wise, City of Norton53 min
May 8, 9:26 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKBland, Smyth, Tazewell, Wythe51 min
May 8, 9:34 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKBland, Tazewell41 min
May 8, 10:08 PM EDTTornado WarningMRXRussell, Washington52 min
May 8, 10:39 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKSmyth, Tazewell, Wythe41 min
May 8, 11:05 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKGrayson, Smyth, Wythe40 min
Jun 3, 6:43 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXMadison, Page23 min
Jun 3, 7:01 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXMadison, Page, Rappahannock23 min
Jun 4, 1:51 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKBedford, Franklin, Pittsylvania54 min
Jun 4, 2:18 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKFranklin, Pittsylvania57 min
Jun 4, 2:56 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKPittsylvania49 min
Jun 4, 3:10 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQBrunswick35 min
Jun 5, 6:35 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQCity of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach25 min
Jun 10, 3:52 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKBedford, Botetourt, Roanoke, City of Roanoke38 min
Jun 16, 7:00 PM EDTTornado WarningMRXLee, Scott, Wise, City of Norton60 min
Jun 16, 7:51 PM EDTTornado WarningMRXRussell, Scott, Washington, City of Bristol54 min
Jun 16, 8:17 PM EDTTornado WarningMRXWashington43 min
Jun 16, 8:33 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKGrayson, Smyth42 min
Jun 18, 8:25 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQCity of Virginia Beach35 min
Jun 18, 8:55 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQCity of Virginia Beach50 min
Jun 19, 8:15 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQAmelia, Chesterfield, Cumberland, Powhatan30 min
Jun 19, 9:09 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKBuckingham36 min
Jun 19, 9:40 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQAmelia, Cumberland22 min
Jun 20, 4:34 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQNorthumberland26 min
Jun 26, 9:03 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKBuckingham43 min
Jul 1, 7:25 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQCaroline, Hanover35 min
Jul 12, 4:05 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQNorthampton25 min
Jul 12, 4:56 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQGloucester, Mathews, York34 min
Jul 12, 5:02 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKCharlotte, Halifax28 min
Jul 12, 5:30 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKCharlotte, Halifax22 min
Jul 12, 6:03 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKPittsylvania, City of Danville27 min
Jul 17, 11:21 AM EDTTornado WarningRNKAppomattox, Campbell, Charlotte, Halifax, Pittsylvania39 min
Jul 23, 6:05 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQLancaster, Northumberland40 min
Jul 29, 4:32 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXSpotsylvania43 min
Jul 29, 5:10 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXKing George, Spotsylvania, Stafford, City of Fredericksburg22 min
Jul 29, 5:23 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQCity of Chesapeake37 min
Aug 1, 5:31 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKCarroll45 min
Aug 8, 8:17 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQCity of Hampton, City of Poquoson43 min
Aug 22, 1:51 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQGoochland, Powhatan11 min
Dec 2, 9:35 PM ESTTornado WarningAKQGreensville, Sussex25 min

By county

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

31 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. May 9, 20099tornado warnings
  2. April 20, 20095tornado warnings
  3. July 12, 20095tornado warnings
  4. June 4, 20094tornado warnings
  5. June 20, 20094tornado warnings
  6. April 10, 20093tornado warnings
  7. May 7, 20093tornado warnings
  8. July 29, 20093tornado warnings
  9. June 3, 20092tornado warnings
  10. June 16, 20092tornado warnings
  11. June 17, 20092tornado warnings
  12. June 19, 20092tornado 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.