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Gale Watches in Virginia, 2025

48 gale 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 gale watches reaches back to 2005.

Gale Watches by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2025. Tap one for its archive.

Gale Watches
48
Busiest month
January10 gale watches
Busiest day
January 2, 20252 gale 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 2, 3:44 AM ESTGale WatchAKQ23 hr
Jan 2, 2:30 PM ESTGale WatchLWX5 hr
Jan 5, 3:23 AM ESTGale WatchAKQ12 hr
Jan 5, 4:29 AM ESTGale WatchLWX21 hr
Jan 7, 9:35 PM ESTGale WatchLWX15 hr
Jan 8, 4:01 AM ESTGale WatchAKQ11 hr
Jan 12, 12:33 PM ESTGale WatchLWX25 hr
Jan 12, 2:59 PM ESTGale WatchAKQ24 hr
Jan 18, 3:35 AM ESTGale WatchAKQ11 hr
Jan 27, 3:24 AM ESTGale WatchLWX35 hr
Feb 14, 3:46 AM ESTGale WatchLWX22 hr
Feb 14, 12:55 PM ESTGale WatchAKQ13 hr
Feb 18, 1:25 PM ESTGale WatchLWX14 hr
Feb 18, 3:02 PM ESTGale WatchAKQ24 hr
Feb 28, 2:18 PM ESTGale WatchAKQ13 hr
Mar 3, 3:40 PM ESTGale WatchLWX15 hr
Mar 3, 3:43 PM ESTGale WatchAKQ24 hr
Mar 4, 3:29 PM ESTGale WatchAKQ31 hr
Mar 4, 3:45 PM ESTGale WatchLWX22 hr
Mar 15, 4:02 AM EDTGale WatchLWX24 hr
Mar 15, 4:06 AM EDTGale WatchAKQ24 hr
Mar 18, 1:47 PM EDTGale WatchLWX25 hr
Mar 18, 2:31 PM EDTGale WatchAKQ37 hr
Apr 13, 1:44 PM EDTGale WatchLWX23 hr
Sep 15, 9:19 AM EDTGale WatchLWX4 hr
Sep 15, 9:21 AM EDTGale WatchAKQ5 hr
Sep 29, 1:16 AM EDTGale WatchAKQ24 hr
Oct 9, 3:34 AM EDTGale WatchAKQ49 hr
Oct 9, 5:54 AM EDTGale WatchLWX70 hr
Oct 26, 3:31 AM EDTGale WatchAKQ24 hr
Oct 29, 1:06 PM EDTGale WatchAKQ21 hr
Oct 29, 1:19 PM EDTGale WatchLWX23 hr
Nov 4, 11:45 AM ESTGale WatchLWX15 hr
Nov 4, 1:55 PM ESTGale WatchAKQ11 hr
Nov 9, 12:59 AM ESTGale WatchAKQ24 hr
Nov 9, 1:20 AM ESTGale WatchLWX24 hr
Nov 14, 1:05 PM ESTGale WatchAKQ23 hr
Nov 15, 12:20 AM ESTGale WatchLWX12 hr
Nov 30, 12:20 PM ESTGale WatchLWX23 hr
Nov 30, 12:55 PM ESTGale WatchAKQ30 hr
Dec 7, 2:54 AM ESTGale WatchAKQ11 hr
Dec 9, 1:21 AM ESTGale WatchAKQ13 hr
Dec 12, 11:52 AM ESTGale WatchLWX13 hr
Dec 12, 1:57 PM ESTGale WatchAKQ11 hr
Dec 17, 1:34 AM ESTGale WatchAKQ25 hr
Dec 17, 1:31 PM ESTGale WatchLWX13 hr
Dec 28, 1:03 AM ESTGale WatchAKQ24 hr
Dec 28, 2:10 AM ESTGale WatchLWX10 hr

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. January 2, 20252gale watches
  2. January 5, 20252gale watches
  3. January 8, 20252gale watches
  4. January 12, 20252gale watches
  5. February 14, 20252gale watches
  6. February 18, 20252gale watches
  7. March 3, 20252gale watches
  8. March 4, 20252gale watches
  9. March 15, 20252gale watches
  10. March 18, 20252gale watches
  11. September 15, 20252gale watches
  12. October 9, 20252gale watches

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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.