Alert archive / Virginia / Henrico County

Weather alerts in Henrico County, Virginia, 2014

122 weather alerts in 2014, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Henrico County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2014. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
122
Warnings
21
Watches
10
Advisories
7
Busiest month
May26 alerts
Busiest day
April 25, 201412 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

1 of 2 tornado warnings covering Henrico County in 2014 had a tornado report inside them.

Henrico County, 2014

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings2150%0
Severe thunderstorm warnings141121%1080%25 min
Flash flood warnings10100%0

Each office's whole area, 2014

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Wakefield, VA: tornado warnings33876%1567%13 min
NWS Wakefield, VA: severe thunderstorm warnings1308634%30275%20 min
NWS Wakefield, VA: flash flood warnings5420%1567%37 min

An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.

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.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 6, 6:46 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ44 min
Jan 6, 6:48 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ42 min
Jan 11, 11:06 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ54 min
Jan 11, 1:56 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ34 min
Jan 11, 2:10 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC65 min
Jan 11, 2:30 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ30 min
Jan 11, 2:38 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ37 min
Jan 21, 7:09 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC5 hr
Feb 12, 1:42 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC6 hr
Feb 12, 3:50 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ70 min
Feb 12, 6:41 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC6 hr
Feb 13, 1:43 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC5 hr
Feb 21, 10:39 AM ESTTornado WatchSPC5 hr
Feb 21, 11:39 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ36 min
Feb 21, 12:13 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ32 min
Mar 3, 6:05 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC6 hr
Mar 12, 4:21 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC114 min
Mar 12, 4:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr
Mar 12, 7:08 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC97 min
Mar 29, 10:42 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC93 min
Apr 15, 4:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ33 min
Apr 25, 12:46 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Apr 25, 1:19 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC10 hr
Apr 25, 2:08 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ67 min
Apr 25, 2:50 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Apr 25, 3:33 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ27 min
Apr 25, 4:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ29 min
Apr 25, 4:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ43 min
Apr 25, 4:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ25 min
Apr 25, 4:45 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC90 min
Apr 25, 5:13 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ47 min
Apr 25, 6:08 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ37 min
Apr 25, 7:29 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC61 min
Apr 28, 8:51 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryAKQ24 days
Apr 29, 4:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ49 min
Apr 30, 5:22 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC53 min
Apr 30, 11:52 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningAKQ55 hr
Apr 30, 12:33 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC87 min
Apr 30, 1:15 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC5 hr
Apr 30, 3:47 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC88 min
May 1, 6:46 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningAKQ33 hr
May 5, 10:08 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
May 9, 7:53 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ37 min
May 9, 8:27 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ48 min
May 10, 4:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ45 min
May 10, 5:54 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ51 min
May 15, 11:56 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
May 15, 3:22 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC53 min
May 15, 6:24 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC96 min
May 15, 7:09 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ51 min
May 16, 7:57 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningAKQ68 hr
May 16, 3:51 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningAKQ54 hr
May 21, 2:10 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
May 22, 1:19 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC116 min
May 22, 2:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
May 22, 4:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ40 min
May 22, 4:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ49 min
May 22, 5:01 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQ29 min
May 22, 5:21 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningAKQ84 min
May 22, 5:29 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQ31 min
May 22, 6:36 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC84 min
May 22, 6:37 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ38 min
May 27, 5:48 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC57 min
May 28, 2:28 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
May 28, 7:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ54 min
May 28, 8:13 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryAKQ47 min
Jun 5, 1:04 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ56 min
Jun 9, 3:03 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jun 11, 2:25 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC95 min
Jun 11, 2:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ35 min
Jun 11, 3:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ47 min
Jun 11, 3:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jun 11, 3:30 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryAKQ90 min
Jun 11, 4:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ41 min
Jun 11, 5:39 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ51 min
Jun 11, 10:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ56 min
Jun 12, 11:19 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ86 min
Jun 12, 3:45 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryAKQ3 hr
Jun 13, 2:33 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ27 min
Jun 13, 3:07 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ53 min
Jun 13, 5:52 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ38 min
Jun 13, 6:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ56 min
Jun 13, 6:22 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ53 min
Jun 13, 6:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ54 min
Jun 19, 2:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jun 19, 3:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ46 min
Jun 19, 4:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ41 min
Jun 19, 4:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ34 min
Jun 19, 6:16 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC59 min
Jul 2, 12:05 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC55 min
Jul 2, 12:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC9 hr
Jul 13, 2:22 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ38 min
Jul 14, 3:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ60 min
Jul 14, 9:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ61 min
Jul 15, 1:23 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC97 min
Jul 15, 1:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jul 15, 4:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ19 min
Jul 15, 4:41 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC94 min
Jul 15, 4:52 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ53 min
Jul 24, 5:18 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ57 min
Jul 24, 3:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ56 min
Jul 24, 4:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ47 min
Jul 24, 4:59 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryAKQ91 min
Jul 27, 7:23 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ37 min
Jul 27, 7:26 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ34 min
Jul 27, 8:01 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ59 min
Jul 27, 11:28 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Aug 1, 10:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ59 min
Aug 1, 11:20 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ55 min
Aug 12, 11:18 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryAKQ102 min
Aug 12, 12:27 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryAKQ3 hr
Aug 12, 2:39 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Aug 18, 2:08 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ52 min
Aug 18, 4:19 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC56 min
Aug 20, 9:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ48 min
Oct 7, 9:17 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC88 min
Oct 15, 5:14 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Oct 15, 12:10 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ50 min
Nov 6, 6:07 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ53 min
Nov 6, 7:02 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ58 min
Nov 17, 10:37 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ38 min
Nov 17, 12:40 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementAKQ50 min

By product

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

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.