Excessive Heat Watches in Virginia
30 excessive heat watches since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of excessive heat watches reaches back to 2005.
Excessive Heat Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Excessive Heat Watches
- 30
- Busiest year
- 20126 excessive heat watches
- Average year
- 3over 12 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 county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Arlington County20
- Fairfax County20
- City of Alexandria20
- City of Fairfax20
- City of Falls Church20
- King George County19
- Spotsylvania County19
- Stafford County19
- City of Fredericksburg19
- Fauquier County14
- Clarke County13
- Culpeper County13
- Orange County13
- Greene County12
- Madison County12
- City of Charlottesville12
- Rappahannock County11
- Warren County11
- Frederick County10
- Page County10
- City of Winchester10
- Loudoun County10
- Nelson County9
- Shenandoah County8
- Dinwiddie County7
- Lancaster County7
- Northumberland County7
- Richmond County7
- Rockingham County7
- Westmoreland County7
- City of Harrisonburg7
- Brunswick County6
- Caroline County6
- Charles City County6
- Gloucester County6
- James City County6
- Mathews County6
- Middlesex County6
- New Kent County6
- Prince George County6
44 more counties
- Southampton County6
- Surry County6
- Sussex County6
- City of Chesapeake6
- City of Franklin6
- City of Hopewell6
- City of Petersburg6
- City of Virginia Beach6
- City of Williamsburg6
- Accomack County5
- Greensville County5
- Northampton County5
- City of Emporia5
- City of Staunton5
- City of Waynesboro5
- Amelia County4
- Cumberland County4
- Fluvanna County4
- Goochland County4
- Lunenburg County4
- Mecklenburg County4
- Nottoway County4
- Powhatan County4
- Prince Edward County4
- Prince William County4
- City of Manassas4
- City of Manassas Park4
- Chesterfield County3
- Essex County3
- Hanover County3
- Henrico County3
- King and Queen County3
- King William County3
- City of Colonial Heights3
- City of Richmond3
- Buckingham County2
- York County2
- City of Hampton2
- City of Newport News2
- City of Poquoson2
- Appomattox County1
- Charlotte County1
- Halifax County1
- Louisa County1
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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.