Alert archive / Virginia / Tornado Warnings / 2018

Tornado Warnings in Virginia, September 2018

30 tornado warnings in September 2018. 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 September 2018. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
30
Busiest day
September 17, 201822 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
Sep 9, 11:02 AM EDTTornado WarningAKQYork28 min
Sep 9, 11:13 AM EDTTornado WarningAKQCity of Norfolk, City of Virginia Beach32 min
Sep 14, 10:17 AM EDTTornado WarningAKQCity of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach28 min
Sep 14, 10:43 AM EDTTornado WarningAKQCity of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach32 min
Sep 14, 5:48 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQBrunswick, Greensville27 min
Sep 14, 6:14 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQBrunswick, Lunenburg31 min
Sep 16, 4:27 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKBedford18 min
Sep 17, 9:58 AM EDTTornado WarningAKQLunenburg, Nottoway, Prince Edward32 min
Sep 17, 10:28 AM EDTTornado WarningAKQLunenburg, Mecklenburg32 min
Sep 17, 1:00 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQAmelia, Nottoway30 min
Sep 17, 1:26 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQGoochland, Hanover, Louisa20 min
Sep 17, 1:28 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQBrunswick, Dinwiddie, Lunenburg, Nottoway32 min
Sep 17, 2:18 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQAmelia, Nottoway, Prince Edward27 min
Sep 17, 2:18 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQAmelia, Chesterfield, Nottoway27 min
Sep 17, 2:33 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQLunenburg, Nottoway27 min
Sep 17, 2:52 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQChesterfield38 min
Sep 17, 3:11 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXKing George, Spotsylvania, Stafford, City of Fredericksburg34 min
Sep 17, 3:22 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQChesterfield23 min
Sep 17, 3:23 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQChesterfield, Henrico, City of Richmond52 min
Sep 17, 3:32 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQAmelia, Chesterfield, Powhatan28 min
Sep 17, 3:38 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXStafford22 min
Sep 17, 3:39 PM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedAKQChesterfield, Henrico, City of Richmond36 min
Sep 17, 3:48 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQCaroline, Hanover, Henrico, King William42 min
Sep 17, 3:48 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQAmelia27 min
Sep 17, 3:54 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQChesterfield, Powhatan36 min
Sep 17, 4:14 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQChesterfield, Hanover, Henrico, City of Richmond31 min
Sep 17, 4:23 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKCharlotte, Halifax37 min
Sep 17, 4:44 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQChesterfield, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, Powhatan, City of Richmond31 min
Sep 17, 5:13 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQHanover, Henrico, King William32 min
Sep 17, 10:53 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKBuckingham22 min

By county

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

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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.