Alert archive / Virginia

Weather alerts in Mecklenburg County, Virginia

2,991 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Mecklenburg County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
2,991
Warnings
577
Watches
471
Advisories
425
Busiest year
2018169 alerts
Average year
77over 39 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

Warning verification

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

From 2008 to 2025, 100% of tornado reports in Mecklenburg County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 11 minutes before, and 84% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200820100%0
20104175%2100%10 min
20118188%0
20133167%1100%15 min
20163167%3100%18 min
201740100%0
2018110%4100%9 min
20195180%1100%2 min
20204175%1100%6 min
202110100%0
202250100%0
202450100%0
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200819953%1675%39 min
20099544%1050%23 min
201012925%1765%22 min
201113838%1182%32 min
201211918%888%25 min
20139811%1644%21 min
20143233%1100%38 min
20157529%580%21 min
2016171041%2157%25 min
201717853%1090%24 min
201812742%1471%25 min
2019151127%1191%16 min
20208538%4100%20 min
202111645%4100%30 min
202210640%580%13 min
2023201240%1694%21 min
2024201430%967%24 min
2025221341%771%21 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008110%250%141 min
2009110%1100%9 min
2014010%
20183233%3100%204 min
2019220%2100%66 min
20203167%1100%63 min
20224175%2100%30 min
2023220%3100%60 min
20249722%8100%76 min
20257529%7100%59 min

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

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.

By product

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

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 11, 4:13 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningAKQ2 hr
Sep 11, 3:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ52 min
Sep 5, 5:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ34 min
Sep 4, 6:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatAKQ43 min
Aug 20, 8:10 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQ20 min
Aug 20, 7:21 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningAKQ3 hr
Aug 20, 6:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ46 min
Aug 10, 6:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ46 min
Aug 4, 5:00 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningAKQ4 hr
Jul 27, 1:03 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ42 min
Jul 18, 6:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ35 min
Jul 18, 5:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ40 min

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.