Alert archive / Virginia / Westmoreland County

Weather alerts in Westmoreland County, Virginia, 2012

108 weather alerts in 2012, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Westmoreland County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2012. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
108
Warnings
18
Watches
19
Advisories
17
Busiest month
July31 alerts
Busiest day
June 1, 20128 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

0 of 1 tornado warnings covering Westmoreland County in 2012 had a tornado report inside them.

Westmoreland County, 2012

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings10100%0
Severe thunderstorm warnings8713%1100%9 min
Flash flood warnings00

Each office's whole area, 2012

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Wakefield, VA: tornado warnings23770%1856%16 min
NWS Wakefield, VA: severe thunderstorm warnings18012033%28883%24 min
NWS Wakefield, VA: flash flood warnings8538%2162%53 min

An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Feb 11, 4:09 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ36 min
Feb 16, 10:10 PM ESTDense Fog AdvisoryAKQ11 hr
Feb 19, 2:39 AM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryAKQ26 hr
Feb 24, 12:43 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC92 min
Feb 24, 1:19 PM ESTTornado WatchSPC7 hr
Feb 24, 3:29 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ41 min
Mar 4, 3:18 PM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryAKQ23 hr
Mar 20, 5:15 AM EDTDense Fog AdvisoryAKQ4 hr
Mar 21, 5:36 AM EDTDense Fog AdvisoryAKQ4 hr
Mar 21, 9:42 PM EDTDense Fog AdvisoryAKQ12 hr
Apr 8, 7:38 PM EDTRed Flag WarningAKQ24 hr
Apr 9, 10:30 AM EDTFire Weather WatchAKQ9 hr
Apr 9, 3:53 PM EDTRed Flag WarningAKQ28 hr
Apr 21, 7:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ54 min
May 15, 2:08 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC67 min
May 23, 10:31 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ44 min
Jun 1, 12:29 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC61 min
Jun 1, 1:03 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC87 min
Jun 1, 1:50 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr
Jun 1, 2:52 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ53 min
Jun 1, 3:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ43 min
Jun 1, 3:44 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQ31 min
Jun 1, 3:49 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC56 min
Jun 1, 6:54 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jun 1, 8:01 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC4 hr
Jun 22, 12:18 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jun 22, 12:31 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ29 min
Jun 22, 2:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jun 22, 4:10 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jun 22, 4:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ43 min
Jun 22, 4:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ34 min
Jun 22, 6:42 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC63 min
Jun 25, 10:44 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC61 min
Jun 25, 12:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Jun 25, 3:57 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC63 min
Jun 29, 3:51 AM EDTHeat AdvisoryAKQ13 hr
Jun 29, 1:18 PM EDTExcessive Heat WarningAKQ26 hr
Jun 29, 6:03 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC87 min
Jun 29, 10:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ60 min
Jun 29, 10:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC4 hr
Jun 29, 10:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ73 min
Jun 29, 10:51 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC84 min
Jun 29, 11:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ81 min
Jun 30, 7:39 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Jul 2, 3:23 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ22 min
Jul 4, 3:15 PM EDTHeat AdvisoryAKQ29 hr
Jul 5, 3:29 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC91 min
Jul 6, 10:05 AM EDTExcessive Heat WatchAKQ17 hr
Jul 7, 3:19 AM EDTExcessive Heat WatchAKQ24 hr
Jul 7, 3:19 AM EDTExcessive Heat WarningAKQ17 hr
Jul 8, 2:53 AM EDTHeat AdvisoryAKQ17 hr
Jul 8, 12:47 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC88 min
Jul 8, 1:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Jul 8, 4:21 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC54 min
Jul 8, 6:00 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC60 min
Jul 8, 6:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ39 min
Jul 8, 6:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ20 min
Jul 9, 12:09 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC96 min
Jul 15, 2:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ31 min
Jul 15, 3:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ30 min
Jul 15, 4:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ24 min
Jul 17, 3:07 PM EDTHeat AdvisoryAKQ29 hr
Jul 18, 3:44 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC91 min
Jul 24, 11:48 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC87 min
Jul 24, 1:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Jul 24, 1:42 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 25, 4:05 PM EDTHeat AdvisoryAKQ27 hr
Jul 26, 3:08 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 26, 5:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Jul 26, 9:31 PM EDTHeat AdvisoryAKQ21 hr
Jul 27, 1:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Jul 28, 12:26 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 28, 1:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Jul 28, 4:18 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC87 min
Jul 31, 5:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ57 min
Aug 2, 6:27 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryAKQ93 min
Aug 7, 5:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ34 min
Aug 10, 5:50 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ55 min
Aug 10, 7:31 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC119 min
Aug 11, 5:37 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ23 min
Aug 15, 2:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Aug 26, 12:52 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC83 min
Aug 26, 11:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ45 min
Sep 6, 9:55 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ35 min
Sep 8, 1:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Sep 8, 3:25 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC65 min
Sep 8, 5:09 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ51 min
Sep 8, 6:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ19 min
Sep 18, 8:49 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC116 min
Sep 18, 10:54 AM EDTTornado WatchSPC9 hr
Sep 18, 11:19 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC86 min
Sep 18, 1:27 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC63 min
Sep 18, 3:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ61 min
Sep 18, 3:52 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC113 min
Sep 28, 2:36 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC114 min
Sep 28, 4:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ54 min
Sep 28, 5:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ60 min
Oct 26, 4:00 PM EDTFlood WatchAKQ3 days
Oct 26, 5:31 PM EDTHigh Wind WatchAKQ35 hr
Oct 27, 5:18 PM EDTHigh Wind WarningAKQ59 hr
Oct 27, 5:33 PM EDTCoastal Flood WarningAKQ4 days
Oct 28, 1:18 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningAKQ6 hr
Oct 29, 6:45 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningAKQ6 hr
Nov 5, 3:50 PM ESTFreeze WarningAKQ16 hr
Dec 2, 1:01 AM ESTDense Fog AdvisoryAKQ8 hr
Dec 9, 7:04 PM ESTDense Fog AdvisoryAKQ14 hr
Dec 21, 7:58 AM ESTCoastal Flood AdvisoryAKQ3 hr
Dec 21, 2:20 PM ESTWind AdvisoryAKQ25 hr

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.