High Surf Advisories in Virginia
155 high surf advisories 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 high surf advisories reaches back to 2005.
High Surf Advisories by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- High Surf Advisories
- 155
- Busiest year
- 201815 high surf advisories
- Average year
- 7over 21 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.
The latest high surf advisories
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 2:10 AM EDT | High Surf Advisory | AKQ | Accomack, Northampton, City of Virginia Beach | 64 hr |
| Apr 26, 3:17 AM EDT | High Surf Advisory | AKQ | Accomack, City of Virginia Beach | 23 hr |
| Apr 8, 5:15 AM EDT | High Surf Advisory | AKQ | City of Virginia Beach | 17 hr |
| Feb 22, 2:03 AM EST | High Surf Advisory | AKQ | Accomack | 35 hr |
| Jan 31, 1:10 AM EST | High Surf Advisory | AKQ | Accomack, Northampton, City of Virginia Beach | 60 hr |
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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.