Alert archive / Virginia / York County

Weather alerts in York County, Virginia, 2009

86 weather alerts in 2009, 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 2009. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
86
Warnings
22
Watches
19
Advisories
9
Busiest month
July20 alerts
Busiest day
July 27, 20097 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 York County in 2009 had a tornado report inside them.

York County, 2009

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings10100%0
Severe thunderstorm warnings191047%944%4 min
Flash flood warnings110%0

Each office's whole area, 2009

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Wakefield, VA: tornado warnings35391%944%10 min
NWS Wakefield, VA: severe thunderstorm warnings29013753%33280%19 min
NWS Wakefield, VA: flash flood warnings191426%2181%40 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
Jan 7, 10:14 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ16 min
Apr 6, 8:03 AM EDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr
Apr 6, 9:30 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ22 min
Apr 6, 10:33 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC57 min
Apr 6, 1:08 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC67 min
Apr 20, 2:50 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr
Apr 20, 4:57 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC93 min
Apr 20, 5:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ23 min
Apr 20, 7:15 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC90 min
Apr 20, 7:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ45 min
May 1, 1:03 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC117 min
May 3, 2:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ26 min
May 4, 12:03 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC57 min
May 4, 12:29 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC5 hr
May 4, 3:26 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC64 min
May 6, 2:16 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr
May 6, 7:29 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC91 min
May 6, 8:26 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC8 hr
May 6, 10:50 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC55 min
May 7, 12:10 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC95 min
May 9, 12:51 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC84 min
May 9, 1:07 AM EDTTornado WatchSPC4 hr
May 9, 5:58 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC62 min
May 9, 6:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC4 hr
May 9, 6:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ38 min
May 9, 7:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ29 min
May 9, 8:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ48 min
May 29, 2:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
May 29, 6:01 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC59 min
Jun 3, 3:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ30 min
Jun 4, 2:52 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC4 hr
Jun 5, 1:49 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC56 min
Jun 9, 2:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ53 min
Jun 9, 2:31 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC89 min
Jun 9, 7:05 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC115 min
Jun 11, 1:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC3 hr
Jun 18, 2:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC9 hr
Jun 18, 3:31 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC59 min
Jun 18, 5:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ39 min
Jun 18, 8:21 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC24 min
Jun 20, 1:55 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC95 min
Jun 22, 8:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ33 min
Jul 12, 12:21 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC54 min
Jul 12, 4:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ51 min
Jul 12, 4:56 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQ34 min
Jul 12, 5:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ32 min
Jul 17, 2:00 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC5 hr
Jul 17, 3:41 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC94 min
Jul 26, 2:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jul 26, 4:16 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC89 min
Jul 26, 7:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ43 min
Jul 26, 8:21 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC54 min
Jul 26, 9:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ52 min
Jul 26, 10:40 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryAKQ2 hr
Jul 27, 11:58 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC92 min
Jul 27, 12:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jul 27, 3:45 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC60 min
Jul 27, 7:06 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC54 min
Jul 29, 1:32 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC28 min
Jul 31, 2:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Jul 31, 4:47 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC88 min
Jul 31, 6:54 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC66 min
Aug 2, 11:33 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Aug 2, 1:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ31 min
Aug 6, 5:42 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryAKQ63 min
Aug 11, 8:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ45 min
Aug 12, 11:25 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Aug 12, 12:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC9 hr
Aug 12, 4:13 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC92 min
Aug 13, 12:49 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryAKQ116 min
Aug 14, 9:13 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryAKQ2 hr
Aug 14, 1:42 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryAKQ108 min
Aug 14, 2:16 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningAKQ3 hr
Aug 15, 9:05 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryAKQ115 min
Aug 21, 12:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Aug 22, 2:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr
Aug 22, 3:48 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryAKQ87 min
Aug 22, 4:09 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC96 min
Sep 8, 3:46 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryAKQ3 hr
Oct 24, 12:19 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC116 min
Nov 12, 11:48 AM ESTAreal Flood WarningAKQ10 hr
Nov 27, 2:19 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ56 min
Dec 2, 8:31 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC89 min
Dec 2, 9:01 PM ESTTornado WatchSPC6 hr
Dec 3, 12:12 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC93 min
Dec 13, 1:03 PM ESTAreal Flood AdvisoryAKQ117 min

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.