Alert archive / Virginia / Tornado Watches / 2021
Tornado Watches in Virginia, March 2021
1 tornado watches in March 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 March 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 1
- Busiest day
- March 18, 20211 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 5:09 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brunswick, Greensville, Isle of Wight, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Southampton and 11 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Brunswick County1
- Greensville County1
- Isle of Wight County1
- Lunenburg County1
- Mecklenburg County1
- Southampton County1
- Surry County1
- Sussex County1
- City of Chesapeake1
- City of Emporia1
- City of Franklin1
- City of Hampton1
- City of Newport News1
- City of Norfolk1
- City of Portsmouth1
- City of Suffolk1
- City of Virginia Beach1
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.