Alert archive / Virginia / York County

Weather alerts in York County, Virginia, 2008

89 weather alerts in 2008, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

York County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2008. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
89
Warnings
13
Watches
28
Advisories
6
Busiest month
July18 alerts
Busiest day
May 9, 20086 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

1 of 1 tornado warnings covering York County in 2008 had a tornado report inside them.

York County, 2008

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings110%0
Severe thunderstorm warnings12833%2100%5 min
Flash flood warnings00

Each office's whole area, 2008

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Wakefield, VA: tornado warnings702071%6560%11 min
NWS Wakefield, VA: severe thunderstorm warnings28813852%33373%22 min
NWS Wakefield, VA: flash flood warnings191237%2959%94 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 18, 3:45 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC30 min
Feb 18, 3:59 AM ESTTornado WatchSPC6 hr
Feb 18, 6:18 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC57 min
Feb 22, 12:40 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC6 hr
Mar 4, 5:53 PM ESTTornado WatchSPC9 hr
Mar 5, 1:12 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ33 min
Mar 8, 6:12 AM ESTTornado WatchSPC6 hr
Mar 8, 10:07 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ53 min
Mar 8, 12:44 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC61 min
Apr 12, 11:59 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Apr 12, 3:39 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Apr 20, 1:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Apr 20, 7:14 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC61 min
Apr 20, 8:01 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC5 hr
Apr 20, 11:08 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC67 min
Apr 21, 1:05 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryAKQ6 hr
Apr 21, 10:12 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryAKQ6 hr
Apr 28, 12:50 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC55 min
Apr 28, 3:16 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC5 hr
Apr 28, 4:28 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC92 min
Apr 28, 4:39 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQ36 min
May 9, 2:32 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC88 min
May 9, 3:00 AM EDTTornado WatchSPC8 hr
May 9, 4:49 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryAKQ3 hr
May 9, 5:04 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC56 min
May 9, 6:37 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC53 min
May 9, 8:29 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC61 min
May 11, 2:07 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr
May 11, 6:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ44 min
May 11, 7:43 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryAKQ3 hr
May 16, 2:20 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC55 min
May 20, 1:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
May 20, 3:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ27 min
May 31, 12:05 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC55 min
May 31, 3:07 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr
May 31, 7:37 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC53 min
Jun 1, 6:58 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC92 min
Jun 4, 2:26 AM EDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr
Jun 4, 7:34 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC5 hr
Jun 6, 2:34 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jun 16, 4:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC3 hr
Jun 16, 6:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ52 min
Jun 16, 6:55 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC95 min
Jun 19, 7:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ47 min
Jun 27, 11:37 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jun 27, 12:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jun 27, 4:12 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC63 min
Jun 29, 4:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC9 hr
Jun 29, 9:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ49 min
Jul 8, 12:34 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC86 min
Jul 8, 1:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC9 hr
Jul 8, 2:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ63 min
Jul 8, 3:48 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC57 min
Jul 9, 4:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr
Jul 22, 9:46 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC59 min
Jul 22, 10:03 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Jul 22, 11:56 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 23, 12:33 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC57 min
Jul 23, 12:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jul 23, 3:54 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC66 min
Jul 23, 7:28 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC62 min
Jul 23, 11:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ35 min
Jul 27, 1:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jul 27, 1:26 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 30, 2:23 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC97 min
Jul 30, 7:13 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryAKQ2 hr
Jul 30, 7:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ36 min
Aug 2, 1:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ26 min
Aug 2, 4:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Aug 2, 7:09 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC96 min
Aug 10, 9:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ36 min
Aug 15, 1:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Aug 15, 3:45 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryAKQ2 hr
Aug 15, 3:56 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC94 min
Sep 6, 3:33 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC87 min
Sep 6, 4:45 AM EDTTornado WatchSPC8 hr
Sep 6, 8:40 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Sep 9, 1:41 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC64 min
Sep 9, 2:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Sep 9, 4:49 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC86 min
Nov 15, 12:24 AM ESTTornado WatchSPC9 hr
Nov 15, 3:10 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC95 min
Nov 15, 4:10 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC65 min
Nov 15, 11:07 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC53 min
Nov 15, 12:22 PM ESTTornado WatchSPC7 hr
Nov 15, 6:15 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Dec 11, 3:02 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC58 min
Dec 11, 3:17 PM ESTTornado WatchSPC6 hr
Dec 11, 3:57 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 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.