Tornado Watch issued October 11 at 4:51PM EDT until October 11 at 8:00PM EDT by NWS Wakefield VA
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TORNADO WATCH 681 REMAINS VALID UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS IN VIRGINIA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 5 COUNTIES IN SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA BRUNSWICK DINWIDDIE MECKLENBURG IN SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA CITY OF EMPORIA GREENSVILLE THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ANTE, BRUNSWICK, BUFFORD CROSSROADS, CHASE CITY, CLARESVILLE, CLARKSVILLE, COWIE CORNER, DURAND, EDGERTON, EMPORIA, EMPORIA AIRPORT, EMPORIA RESERVOIR, GREEN PLAIN, LAWRENCEVILLE, REAMS, SOUTH HILL, TRIPLET, VALENTINES, AND WHITE PLAINS.
- Event time
- Source last updated
- Current version retrieved
- Provider
- NWS — active weather alerts (Storm)
- Location
- VA, US
- Severity
- Extreme
- area
- Brunswick, VA; Dinwiddie, VA; Greensville, VA; Mecklenburg, VA; City of Emporia, VA
- event
- Tornado Watch
- onset
- 2026-10-11T16:51:00-04:00
- states
- ["VA"]
- urgency
- Future
- certainty
- Possible
- effective
- 2026-10-11T16:51:00-04:00
- message id
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.73dcdc48aa2183d567b654937ed0725dd149059d.003.1
- references
- ["urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.d0ee6083f7f57038c092007a18390fe324ea4428.001.1"]
- message type
- Update
- location basis
- Approximate: centers of the NWS zones listed in the alert
- freshness minutes
- 60
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