Alert archive / Virginia / Highland County
Weather alerts in Highland County, Virginia, 2014
108 weather alerts in 2014, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Highland County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2014. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 108
- Warnings
- 19
- Watches
- 22
- Advisories
- 47
- Busiest month
- January28 alerts
- Busiest day
- January 2, 20144 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
Highland County, 2014
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1 | 100% | 17 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 1 | 1 | 0% | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2014
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Baltimore/Washington: tornado warnings | 21 | 2 | 90% | 8 | 25% | 6 min |
| NWS Baltimore/Washington: severe thunderstorm warnings | 259 | 194 | 25% | 672 | 86% | 21 min |
| NWS Baltimore/Washington: flash flood warnings | 49 | 23 | 53% | 95 | 80% | 88 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 3:45 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | LWX | 26 hr |
| Jan 2, 2:13 PM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | LWX | 28 hr |
| Jan 2, 2:17 PM EST | Wind Advisory | LWX | 19 hr |
| Jan 2, 4:15 PM EST | Winter Storm Warning | LWX | 12 hr |
| Jan 5, 4:11 AM EST | Wind Chill Watch | LWX | 24 hr |
| Jan 5, 9:13 PM EST | Wind Chill Warning | LWX | 55 hr |
| Jan 6, 1:17 AM EST | Wind Advisory | LWX | 7 hr |
| Jan 6, 10:04 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | LWX | 8 hr |
| Jan 8, 4:03 AM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | LWX | 6 hr |
| Jan 9, 1:34 PM EST | Freezing Rain Advisory | LWX | 22 hr |
| Jan 17, 2:57 PM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | LWX | 21 hr |
| Jan 17, 8:42 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | LWX | 7 hr |
| Jan 20, 3:33 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | LWX | 9 hr |
| Jan 20, 12:20 PM EST | Winter Storm Warning | LWX | 35 hr |
| Jan 21, 2:42 AM EST | Wind Chill Warning | LWX | 33 hr |
| Jan 21, 2:42 AM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | LWX | 59 hr |
| Jan 21, 5:04 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jan 23, 3:50 AM EST | Wind Chill Watch | LWX | 10 hr |
| Jan 23, 1:28 PM EST | Wind Chill Warning | LWX | 23 hr |
| Jan 24, 3:39 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | LWX | 49 hr |
| Jan 24, 1:31 PM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | LWX | 19 hr |
| Jan 25, 1:12 PM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | LWX | 20 hr |
| Jan 25, 8:08 PM EST | Winter Storm Warning | LWX | 9 hr |
| Jan 26, 3:47 AM EST | Wind Chill Watch | LWX | 24 hr |
| Jan 26, 2:06 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | LWX | 24 hr |
| Jan 27, 4:05 AM EST | Wind Chill Warning | LWX | 32 hr |
| Jan 28, 12:39 PM EST | Wind Chill Warning | LWX | 23 hr |
| Jan 29, 11:57 AM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | LWX | 18 hr |
| Feb 1, 3:11 PM EST | Winter Storm Watch | LWX | 24 hr |
| Feb 2, 3:05 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | LWX | 24 hr |
| Feb 4, 4:10 AM EST | Freezing Rain Advisory | LWX | 30 hr |
| Feb 4, 9:45 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 6 hr |
| Feb 10, 2:54 PM EST | Winter Storm Watch | LWX | 37 hr |
| Feb 11, 9:29 PM EST | Winter Storm Warning | LWX | 51 hr |
| Feb 12, 6:41 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 6 hr |
| Feb 14, 1:40 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | LWX | 23 hr |
| Feb 17, 2:52 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | LWX | 14 hr |
| Feb 18, 9:44 PM EST | Freezing Rain Advisory | LWX | 13 hr |
| Feb 21, 3:35 AM EST | Wind Advisory | LWX | 14 hr |
| Feb 26, 4:07 AM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | LWX | 30 hr |
| Feb 27, 10:09 AM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | LWX | 23 hr |
| Feb 27, 10:53 AM EST | Wind Advisory | LWX | 7 hr |
| Mar 1, 3:23 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | LWX | 24 hr |
| Mar 2, 3:25 AM EST | Winter Storm Warning | LWX | 38 hr |
| Mar 3, 12:47 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 5 hr |
| Mar 3, 6:05 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 6 hr |
| Mar 12, 3:05 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | LWX | 31 hr |
| Mar 12, 11:43 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Mar 12, 1:28 PM EDT | Wind Chill Advisory | LWX | 21 hr |
| Mar 13, 2:13 PM EDT | Fire Weather Watch | LWX | 18 hr |
| Mar 15, 2:43 PM EDT | Winter Storm Warning | LWX | 47 hr |
| Mar 16, 4:28 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 6 hr |
| Mar 17, 8:21 PM EDT | Winter Weather Advisory | LWX | 16 hr |
| Mar 18, 1:44 PM EDT | Winter Weather Advisory | LWX | 23 hr |
| Mar 24, 8:30 PM EDT | Winter Weather Advisory | LWX | 33 hr |
| Mar 29, 4:14 AM EDT | High Wind Watch | LWX | 16 hr |
| Mar 29, 1:40 PM EDT | Winter Weather Advisory | LWX | 34 hr |
| Mar 29, 8:06 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | LWX | 33 hr |
| Mar 30, 8:43 AM EDT | Winter Storm Warning | LWX | 6 hr |
| Apr 22, 2:29 PM EDT | Fire Weather Watch | LWX | 14 hr |
| Apr 23, 4:11 AM EDT | Red Flag Warning | LWX | 16 hr |
| Apr 28, 1:52 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | LWX | 64 hr |
| May 4, 2:33 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | LWX | 5 hr |
| May 13, 2:41 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | 3 hr |
| May 14, 1:48 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 117 min |
| May 14, 2:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | LWX | 44 hr |
| May 17, 1:29 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | LWX | 20 hr |
| May 18, 1:34 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | LWX | 18 hr |
| May 18, 7:43 PM EDT | Freeze Warning | LWX | 12 hr |
| May 27, 2:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| May 28, 2:28 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Jun 11, 12:25 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jun 11, 3:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jun 11, 6:56 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 94 min |
| Jul 2, 12:05 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 55 min |
| Jul 2, 12:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
| Jul 2, 6:25 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 95 min |
| Jul 3, 11:57 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 63 min |
| Jul 3, 12:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Jul 8, 4:42 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 63 min |
| Jul 8, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Jul 8, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | 62 min |
| Jul 14, 1:06 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 84 min |
| Jul 14, 1:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Jul 14, 4:39 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 96 min |
| Jul 27, 9:28 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
| Sep 2, 4:11 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 94 min |
| Sep 22, 1:25 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | LWX | 20 hr |
| Oct 4, 3:50 AM EDT | Freeze Warning | LWX | 29 hr |
| Oct 7, 6:12 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 93 min |
| Oct 14, 1:28 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | LWX | 16 hr |
| Oct 14, 3:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | LWX | 20 hr |
| Oct 19, 2:58 AM EDT | Freeze Watch | LWX | 10 hr |
| Oct 19, 1:23 PM EDT | Freeze Warning | LWX | 20 hr |
| Nov 18, 3:21 AM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | LWX | 30 hr |
| Nov 24, 9:32 AM EST | Wind Advisory | LWX | 9 hr |
| Nov 24, 3:06 PM EST | Winter Storm Watch | LWX | 20 hr |
| Nov 25, 11:01 AM EST | Winter Storm Warning | LWX | 31 hr |
| Nov 26, 8:28 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 4 hr |
| Nov 27, 2:59 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | LWX | 8 hr |
| Nov 27, 12:41 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | LWX | 24 hr |
| Dec 1, 2:41 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | LWX | 34 hr |
| Dec 4, 5:37 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | LWX | 19 hr |
| Dec 6, 5:30 PM EST | Wind Advisory | LWX | 13 hr |
| Dec 8, 2:38 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | LWX | 19 hr |
| Dec 13, 2:19 PM EST | Freezing Rain Advisory | LWX | 18 hr |
| Dec 21, 2:21 PM EST | Freezing Rain Advisory | LWX | 42 hr |
| Dec 24, 3:55 AM EST | Wind Advisory | LWX | 24 hr |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 1 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 6 |
| Tornado Watch | 1 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 20 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 1 |
| Flash Flood Watch | 3 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Storm Warning | 8 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 5 |
| Freezing Rain Advisory | 5 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 16 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 3 |
| Wind Chill Warning | 5 |
| Freeze Watch | 1 |
| Wind Chill Watch | 3 |
| Frost Advisory | 3 |
| Wind Chill Advisory | 11 |
| Wind and dust | |
| High Wind Watch | 1 |
| Wind Advisory | 11 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 1 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 2 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 1 |
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.