Alert archive / Virginia

Weather alerts in Greensville County, Virginia

2,961 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Greensville County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
2,961
Warnings
528
Watches
517
Advisories
441
Busiest year
2025187 alerts
Average year
78over 38 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

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

From 2008 to 2025, 83% of tornado reports in Greensville County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 10 minutes before, and 79% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008110%250%3 min
200910100%0
201010100%0
201120100%0
201310100%0
201420100%0
201620100%0
201710100%0
201810100%0
20194325%4100%11 min
202010100%0
202140100%0
20232150%0
202410100%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200816569%0
200921767%475%8 min
201010820%367%16 min
2011201430%475%11 min
201215847%367%7 min
2013770%2100%24 min
201411645%650%15 min
201510820%2100%34 min
20168538%1100%36 min
201714750%10%
20187529%2100%27 min
2019181139%683%29 min
202020100%0
202110730%0
202218950%250%14 min
20238713%367%12 min
2024201240%6100%21 min
2025271737%978%21 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200810100%0
2009110%0
2010220%0
20132150%1100%87 min
2015110%0
2020330%0
20233167%1100%233 min
20245260%0
2025131023%1100%174 min

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 21, 7:10 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningAKQ2 hr
Sep 21, 6:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ31 min
Sep 4, 6:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatAKQ41 min
Sep 4, 6:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatAKQ43 min
Sep 2, 6:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ40 min
Sep 2, 6:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ43 min
Aug 14, 7:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ45 min
Aug 10, 6:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ47 min
Aug 4, 6:22 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningAKQ3 hr
Jul 27, 4:05 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ40 min
Jul 18, 3:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatAKQ24 min
Jul 10, 6:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ41 min

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.