Alert archive / Virginia / High Surf Advisories
High Surf Advisories in Virginia, 2020
11 high surf advisories in 2020. 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 in 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- High Surf Advisories
- 11
- Busiest month
- March3 high surf advisories
- Busiest day
- March 6, 20201 high surf advisories
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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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 3:23 PM EST | High Surf Advisory | AKQ | City of Virginia Beach | 40 hr |
| Mar 22, 3:06 AM EDT | High Surf Advisory | AKQ | Accomack, Northampton, City of Virginia Beach | 41 hr |
| Mar 31, 3:11 AM EDT | High Surf Advisory | AKQ | Accomack, Northampton, City of Virginia Beach | 52 hr |
| Apr 12, 2:48 PM EDT | High Surf Advisory | AKQ | Accomack, Northampton, City of Virginia Beach | 29 hr |
| Apr 30, 3:27 AM EDT | High Surf Advisory | AKQ | Accomack, Northampton, City of Virginia Beach | 28 hr |
| May 18, 7:10 PM EDT | High Surf Advisory | AKQ | Accomack, Northampton, City of Virginia Beach | 72 hr |
| Jun 16, 4:36 AM EDT | High Surf Advisory | AKQ | City of Virginia Beach | 15 hr |
| Sep 17, 3:52 PM EDT | High Surf Advisory | AKQ | Accomack, Northampton, City of Virginia Beach | 6 days |
| Nov 30, 5:10 AM EST | High Surf Advisory | AKQ | Accomack | 17 hr |
| Dec 16, 3:50 AM EST | High Surf Advisory | AKQ | Accomack, Northampton | 25 hr |
| Dec 23, 10:49 PM EST | High Surf Advisory | AKQ | Accomack, Northampton, City of Virginia Beach | 37 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.