Alert archive / Virginia / Flood Watches
Flood Watches in Virginia, 2017
8 flood watches in 2017. 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 flood watches reaches back to 2005.
Flood Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Flood Watches
- 8
- Busiest month
- May5 flood watches
- Busiest day
- May 4, 20172 flood 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 23, 10:37 AM EST | Flood Watch | LWX | Clarke, Frederick, Greene, Madison, Page, Rappahannock and 5 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 22, 4:11 PM EDT | Flood Watch | RNK | Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford, Bland, Botetourt, Campbell and 27 more | 64 hr |
| May 4, 11:48 AM EDT | Flood Watch | LWX | Albemarle, Amherst, Augusta, Greene, Madison, Nelson and 9 more | 23 hr |
| May 4, 2:57 PM EDT | Flood Watch | RNK | Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford, Botetourt, Buckingham, Campbell and 19 more | 18 hr |
| May 11, 6:19 AM EDT | Flood Watch | RNK | Alleghany, Amherst, Bath, Bedford, Bland, Botetourt and 23 more | 30 hr |
| May 12, 12:37 PM EDT | Flood Watch | RNK | Alleghany, Bath, Bland, Craig, Giles, Grayson and 4 more | 13 hr |
| May 23, 3:22 AM EDT | Flood Watch | RNK | Bland, Carroll, Grayson, Halifax, Henry, Patrick and 7 more | 23 hr |
| Jul 5, 10:45 AM EDT | Flood Watch | LWX | Culpeper, Greene, Madison, Nelson, Orange, Rappahannock and 1 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Grayson County5
- Amherst County4
- Bland County4
- Carroll County4
- Henry County4
- Patrick County4
- Rockbridge County4
- Smyth County4
- Tazewell County4
- Wythe County4
- City of Galax4
- City of Martinsville4
- Greene County3
- Madison County3
- Rappahannock County3
- Bedford County3
- Botetourt County3
- Craig County3
- Floyd County3
- Franklin County3
- Giles County3
- Halifax County3
- Pittsylvania County3
- Roanoke County3
- City of Buena Vista3
- City of Danville3
- City of Lexington3
- City of Roanoke3
- City of Salem3
- Page County2
- Rockingham County2
- Warren County2
- City of Harrisonburg2
- Appomattox County2
- Campbell County2
- Charlotte County2
- Montgomery County2
- Pulaski County2
- City of Lynchburg2
- City of Radford2
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. Rebuilt daily.