Alert archive / Virginia / Extreme Cold Watches
Extreme Cold Watches in Virginia, 2025
5 extreme cold watches in 2025. 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 extreme cold watches reaches back to 2005.
Extreme Cold Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Extreme Cold Watches
- 5
- Busiest month
- January5 extreme cold watches
- Busiest day
- January 17, 20253 extreme cold watches
Over time
By month
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 17, 11:47 AM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | RLX | Buchanan, Dickenson | 65 hr |
| Jan 17, 12:00 PM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | LWX | Highland | 40 hr |
| Jan 17, 2:29 PM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | RNK | Alleghany, Bath, Bland, Carroll, Craig, Floyd and 10 more | 36 hr |
| Jan 18, 2:34 PM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | MRX | Lee, Russell, Scott, Washington, Wise, City of Bristol and 1 more | 13 hr |
| Jan 19, 2:55 AM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | RNK | Alleghany, Bath, Bland, Carroll, Floyd, Giles and 9 more | 36 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Alleghany County2
- Bath County2
- Bland County2
- Carroll County2
- Floyd County2
- Giles County2
- Grayson County2
- Montgomery County2
- Pulaski County2
- Smyth County2
- Tazewell County2
- Wythe County2
- City of Covington2
- City of Galax2
- City of Radford2
- Buchanan County1
- Dickenson County1
- Highland County1
- Craig County1
- Lee County1
- Russell County1
- Scott County1
- Washington County1
- Wise County1
- City of Bristol1
- City of Norton1
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.