Alert archive / Virginia / Highland County
Weather alerts in Highland County, Virginia, 2015
103 weather alerts in 2015, 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 2015. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 103
- Warnings
- 13
- Watches
- 26
- Advisories
- 41
- Busiest month
- February23 alerts
- Busiest day
- February 14, 20154 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, 2015
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 2 | 0 | 100% | 0 | ||
| Flash flood warnings | 0 | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2015
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Baltimore/Washington: tornado warnings | 17 | 2 | 88% | 4 | 50% | 5 min |
| NWS Baltimore/Washington: severe thunderstorm warnings | 235 | 153 | 35% | 526 | 75% | 16 min |
| NWS Baltimore/Washington: flash flood warnings | 89 | 47 | 47% | 138 | 74% | 64 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, 2:06 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | LWX | 25 hr |
| Jan 4, 12:26 PM EST | Wind Advisory | LWX | 21 hr |
| Jan 5, 1:59 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | LWX | 53 hr |
| Jan 6, 2:58 PM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | LWX | 50 hr |
| Jan 8, 8:18 AM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | LWX | 42 min |
| Jan 9, 1:30 AM EST | Wind Advisory | LWX | 10 hr |
| Jan 9, 4:29 AM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | LWX | 31 hr |
| Jan 11, 3:03 PM EST | Freezing Rain Advisory | LWX | 22 hr |
| Jan 11, 8:50 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jan 20, 2:55 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | LWX | 26 hr |
| Jan 23, 4:19 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | LWX | 32 hr |
| Jan 23, 11:43 AM EST | Winter Storm Warning | LWX | 24 hr |
| Jan 24, 10:30 PM EST | Freezing Rain Advisory | LWX | 5 hr |
| Jan 25, 9:38 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | LWX | 47 hr |
| Jan 29, 3:56 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | LWX | 32 hr |
| Jan 29, 9:44 PM EST | Wind Advisory | LWX | 26 hr |
| Jan 30, 8:08 PM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | LWX | 13 hr |
| Jan 31, 8:04 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | LWX | 47 hr |
| Feb 1, 10:39 PM EST | Wind Advisory | LWX | 23 hr |
| Feb 5, 3:45 AM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | LWX | 29 hr |
| Feb 11, 3:12 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | LWX | 34 hr |
| Feb 12, 3:33 AM EST | Wind Advisory | LWX | 21 hr |
| Feb 12, 3:48 AM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | LWX | 32 hr |
| Feb 13, 3:25 AM EST | High Wind Watch | LWX | 24 hr |
| Feb 13, 3:48 AM EST | Wind Chill Watch | LWX | 24 hr |
| Feb 13, 2:56 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | LWX | 33 hr |
| Feb 14, 3:17 AM EST | High Wind Warning | LWX | 32 hr |
| Feb 14, 3:17 AM EST | Wind Advisory | LWX | 36 hr |
| Feb 14, 3:44 AM EST | Wind Chill Warning | LWX | 54 hr |
| Feb 14, 1:33 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 4 hr |
| Feb 15, 3:12 PM EST | Winter Storm Watch | LWX | 13 hr |
| Feb 15, 9:53 PM EST | Winter Storm Warning | LWX | 33 hr |
| Feb 16, 4:30 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 6 hr |
| Feb 17, 3:22 PM EST | Wind Chill Watch | LWX | 20 hr |
| Feb 17, 8:45 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | LWX | 28 hr |
| Feb 18, 4:13 AM EST | Wind Chill Warning | LWX | 56 hr |
| Feb 19, 5:57 PM EST | Winter Storm Watch | LWX | 22 hr |
| Feb 20, 3:37 PM EST | Winter Storm Warning | LWX | 41 hr |
| Feb 21, 10:32 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 5 hr |
| Feb 28, 2:53 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | LWX | 38 hr |
| Mar 2, 3:37 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | LWX | 30 hr |
| Mar 3, 2:50 PM EST | Winter Storm Watch | LWX | 23 hr |
| Mar 4, 4:51 AM EST | Winter Storm Warning | LWX | 39 hr |
| Mar 5, 7:58 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 5 hr |
| Mar 5, 11:55 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 6 hr |
| Mar 5, 2:13 PM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | LWX | 18 hr |
| Mar 15, 8:22 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | LWX | 9 hr |
| Mar 19, 4:23 AM EDT | Winter Weather Advisory | LWX | 34 hr |
| Mar 30, 4:41 PM EDT | Fire Weather Watch | LWX | 11 hr |
| Mar 31, 4:00 AM EDT | Red Flag Warning | LWX | 15 hr |
| Mar 31, 11:47 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | LWX | 10 hr |
| Apr 2, 7:30 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | LWX | 13 hr |
| Apr 3, 8:53 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | LWX | 15 hr |
| Apr 8, 1:51 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 84 min |
| Apr 14, 4:05 AM EDT | Flood Watch | LWX | 15 hr |
| Apr 14, 11:24 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | LWX | 6 hr |
| Apr 19, 4:10 AM EDT | Flood Watch | LWX | 26 hr |
| Apr 20, 1:54 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Apr 20, 3:08 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
| Apr 22, 4:10 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | LWX | 15 hr |
| May 6, 3:21 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 114 min |
| Jun 8, 2:34 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Jun 14, 2:06 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 84 min |
| Jun 16, 12:15 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jun 18, 2:28 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jun 19, 3:11 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | LWX | 38 hr |
| Jun 20, 1:36 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 114 min |
| Jun 20, 2:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
| Jun 20, 6:24 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 96 min |
| Jun 23, 4:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jun 23, 5:47 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 88 min |
| Jun 23, 7:41 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 94 min |
| Jun 26, 4:20 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | LWX | 40 hr |
| Jun 26, 8:05 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 85 min |
| Jun 26, 9:58 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 62 min |
| Jun 26, 10:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | 48 min |
| Jun 30, 12:55 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Jun 30, 2:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jun 30, 3:48 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 117 min |
| Jul 5, 3:03 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | LWX | 10 hr |
| Jul 10, 2:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | LWX | 16 hr |
| Jul 13, 4:07 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 83 min |
| Jul 13, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jul 14, 5:05 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | LWX | 16 hr |
| Jul 14, 6:10 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jul 14, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
| Jul 18, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | 47 min |
| Sep 2, 3:35 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 85 min |
| Sep 29, 4:20 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | LWX | 23 hr |
| Oct 1, 4:19 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | LWX | 50 hr |
| Oct 2, 2:54 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | LWX | 17 hr |
| Oct 16, 3:57 AM EDT | Freeze Watch | LWX | 24 hr |
| Oct 16, 1:18 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | LWX | 7 hr |
| Oct 16, 8:12 PM EDT | Freeze Warning | LWX | 13 hr |
| Oct 17, 3:34 AM EDT | Freeze Watch | LWX | 31 hr |
| Oct 17, 3:34 AM EDT | Freeze Warning | LWX | 29 hr |
| Nov 12, 8:34 AM EST | Wind Advisory | LWX | 43 hr |
| Nov 18, 3:13 AM EST | Wind Advisory | LWX | 19 hr |
| Nov 30, 9:30 AM EST | Freezing Rain Advisory | LWX | 3 hr |
| Dec 14, 7:23 PM EST | Wind Advisory | LWX | 10 hr |
| Dec 25, 4:14 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | LWX | 9 hr |
| Dec 25, 1:19 PM EST | Flash Flood Watch | LWX | 6 hr |
| Dec 26, 12:17 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | LWX | 9 hr |
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.
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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.