Alert archive / Virginia

Weather alerts in Nottoway County, Virginia

2,790 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Nottoway County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
2,790
Warnings
522
Watches
487
Advisories
397
Busiest year
2025159 alerts
Average year
73over 38 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, 0% of tornado reports in Nottoway County fell inside a tornado warning, and 86% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200810100%0
200910100%0
20113167%0
20132150%0
201640100%0
201811191%10%
20194175%0
202210100%0
202510100%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20089544%5100%39 min
2009191142%786%28 min
2010201715%989%25 min
2011181611%6100%12 min
2012660%0
201311918%1090%14 min
2014220%0
201510100%6100%25 min
20165180%0
2017181328%7100%20 min
20187443%633%8 min
2019211529%2100%20 min
20208713%367%10 min
202113128%6100%29 min
2022131023%5100%13 min
2023201620%2100%36 min
2024171512%5100%28 min
2025382826%17100%15 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
201110100%0
20184250%1100%101 min
20222150%4100%60 min
20235420%3100%39 min
20248713%2100%44 min
20256433%0

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 4, 6:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatAKQ43 min
Sep 4, 5:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ38 min
Sep 4, 5:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ46 min
Aug 14, 7:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ45 min
Aug 14, 6:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatAKQ38 min
Aug 10, 6:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ46 min
Aug 10, 5:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ50 min
Aug 10, 5:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ47 min
Aug 4, 3:36 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningAKQ4 hr
Jul 18, 4:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ38 min
Jul 6, 7:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ44 min
Jul 1, 1:58 PM EDTExtreme Heat WarningAKQ3 days

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.