Alert archive / Virginia / Tornado Watches / 2021
Tornado Watches in Virginia, August 2021
4 tornado watches in August 2021. 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 August 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- August 17, 20212 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 1:06 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carroll, Floyd, Franklin, Grayson, Henry, Montgomery and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 17, 6:28 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Botetourt, Carroll, Craig, Floyd, Franklin and 15 more | 10 hr |
| Aug 18, 11:37 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arlington, Clarke, Culpeper, Fairfax, Fauquier, Frederick and 14 more | 11 hr |
| Aug 31, 7:36 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Albemarle, Alleghany, Amelia, Amherst, Appomattox, Augusta and 49 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Carroll County3
- Floyd County3
- Franklin County3
- Henry County3
- Montgomery County3
- Patrick County3
- Pulaski County3
- City of Galax3
- City of Martinsville3
- City of Radford3
- Grayson County2
- Smyth County2
- Wythe County2
- Bedford County2
- Botetourt County2
- Craig County2
- Pittsylvania County2
- Roanoke County2
- City of Danville2
- City of Roanoke2
- City of Salem2
- Culpeper County2
- Page County2
- Rappahannock County2
- Shenandoah County2
- Arlington County1
- Clarke County1
- Fairfax County1
- Fauquier County1
- Frederick County1
- King George County1
- Loudoun County1
- Prince William County1
- Stafford County1
- Warren County1
- City of Alexandria1
- City of Fairfax1
- City of Falls Church1
- City of Manassas1
- City of Manassas Park1
34 more counties
- City of Winchester1
- Albemarle County1
- Alleghany County1
- Amelia County1
- Amherst County1
- Appomattox County1
- Augusta County1
- Bath County1
- Buckingham County1
- Campbell County1
- Charlotte County1
- Cumberland County1
- Fluvanna County1
- Giles County1
- Goochland County1
- Greene County1
- Halifax County1
- Louisa County1
- Madison County1
- Nelson County1
- Orange County1
- Powhatan County1
- Prince Edward County1
- Rockbridge County1
- Rockingham County1
- Spotsylvania County1
- City of Buena Vista1
- City of Charlottesville1
- City of Covington1
- City of Harrisonburg1
- City of Lexington1
- City of Lynchburg1
- City of Staunton1
- City of Waynesboro1
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.