Alert archive / Virginia / Tornado Watches / 2000
Tornado Watches in Virginia, May 2000
4 tornado watches in May 2000. 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2000. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- May 23, 20002 tornado watches
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 23, 7:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lee | 6 hr |
| May 23, 7:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Highland | 5 hr |
| May 27, 2:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appomattox, Bedford, Bland, Brunswick, Campbell, Carroll and 28 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 4:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Greensville, Isle of Wight, Southampton, Surry and 11 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Brunswick County2
- Dinwiddie County2
- Greensville County2
- City of Emporia2
- Lee County1
- Highland County1
- Appomattox County1
- Bedford County1
- Bland County1
- Campbell County1
- Carroll County1
- Charlotte County1
- Craig County1
- Floyd County1
- Franklin County1
- Giles County1
- Grayson County1
- Halifax County1
- Henry County1
- Lunenburg County1
- Mecklenburg County1
- Montgomery County1
- Nottoway County1
- Patrick County1
- Pittsylvania County1
- Prince Edward County1
- Pulaski County1
- Roanoke County1
- Wythe County1
- City of Danville1
- City of Galax1
- City of Lynchburg1
- City of Martinsville1
- City of Radford1
- City of Roanoke1
- City of Salem1
- Isle of Wight County1
- Southampton County1
- Surry County1
- Sussex County1
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.