Heavy Snow Warnings in Virginia
16 heavy snow warnings 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 heavy snow warnings reaches back to 2005.
Heavy Snow Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Heavy Snow Warnings
- 16
- Busiest year
- 20066 heavy snow warnings
- Average year
- 4over 4 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.
- Wise County5
- City of Norton5
- Bland County4
- Lee County4
- Alleghany County3
- Botetourt County3
- Buchanan County3
- Craig County3
- Dickenson County3
- Giles County3
- Roanoke County3
- Rockbridge County3
- City of Buena Vista3
- City of Covington3
- City of Lexington3
- City of Roanoke3
- City of Salem3
- Grayson County3
- Russell County3
- Scott County3
- Smyth County3
- Tazewell County3
- Washington County3
- City of Bristol3
- Amherst County2
- Appomattox County2
- Bedford County2
- Buckingham County2
- Campbell County2
- Carroll County2
- Clarke County2
- Culpeper County2
- Floyd County2
- Franklin County2
- Frederick County2
- Greene County2
- King George County2
- Madison County2
- Montgomery County2
- Nelson County2
44 more counties
- Orange County2
- Page County2
- Patrick County2
- Pulaski County2
- Rappahannock County2
- Rockingham County2
- Spotsylvania County2
- Stafford County2
- Wythe County2
- City of Charlottesville2
- City of Fredericksburg2
- City of Galax2
- City of Harrisonburg2
- City of Lynchburg2
- City of Radford2
- City of Staunton2
- City of Waynesboro2
- City of Winchester2
- Bath County2
- Amelia County1
- Arlington County1
- Caroline County1
- Charlotte County1
- Cumberland County1
- Fairfax County1
- Fluvanna County1
- Goochland County1
- Halifax County1
- Henry County1
- Lancaster County1
- Middlesex County1
- Northumberland County1
- Pittsylvania County1
- Powhatan County1
- Prince Edward County1
- Richmond County1
- Shenandoah County1
- Warren County1
- Westmoreland County1
- City of Alexandria1
- City of Danville1
- City of Fairfax1
- City of Falls Church1
- City of Martinsville1
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. Rebuilt daily.