Weather alerts in U.S. Virgin Islands
1,986 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
- Alerts
- 1,986
- Warnings
- 299
- Watches
- 211
- Advisories
- 1,064
- Busiest year
- 2024280 alerts
- Average year
- 76over 26 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Extreme Wind Warning | 3 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 2 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Warning | 1 |
| Flash Flood Warning | 169 |
| Flash Flood Watch | 91 |
| Flood Watch | 14 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 466 |
| Heat | |
| Excessive Heat Warning | 48 |
| Extreme Heat Warning | 4 |
| Excessive Heat Watch | 21 |
| Heat Advisory | 278 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 36 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 13 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 13 |
| Tropical | |
| Hurricane Warning | 7 |
| Tropical Storm Warning | 29 |
| Hurricane Watch | 15 |
| Tropical Storm Watch | 32 |
| Hurricane Local Statement | 3 |
| Coast and beach | |
| Coastal Flood Warning | 12 |
| High Surf Warning | 11 |
| Coastal Flood Watch | 25 |
| Coastal Flood Advisory | 36 |
| High Surf Advisory | 245 |
| Tsunami Advisory | 3 |
| Rip Current Statement | 409 |
The latest warnings
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 1:35 AM CDT | Extreme Heat Warning | JSJ | 14 hr | |
| Jun 19, 1:15 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | JSJ | 14 hr | |
| Jun 14, 10:52 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | JSJ | 4 hr | |
| Apr 13, 11:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JSJ | 2 hr | |
| Apr 13, 9:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JSJ | 2 hr | |
| Apr 13, 8:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JSJ | 4 hr |
Nearby
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.