Alert archive / Virginia / Tornado Warnings / 2011

Tornado Warnings in Virginia, August 2011

8 tornado warnings in August 2011. 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 August 2011. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
8
Busiest day
August 27, 20117 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 21, 1:52 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQEssex, King and Queen, King William23 min
Aug 27, 2:20 AM EDTTornado WarningAKQCity of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach25 min
Aug 27, 3:37 AM EDTTornado WarningAKQCity of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach23 min
Aug 27, 4:34 AM EDTTornado WarningAKQCity of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach26 min
Aug 27, 6:21 AM EDTTornado WarningAKQCity of Suffolk13 min
Aug 27, 8:25 AM EDTTornado WarningAKQCity of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach35 min
Aug 27, 8:47 AM EDTTornado WarningAKQCity of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Virginia Beach43 min
Aug 27, 10:44 AM EDTTornado WarningAKQCity of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Virginia Beach31 min

By county

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

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.