Alert archive / Virginia

Small Craft Advisories in Virginia

6,465 small craft advisories since 1986. 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 small craft advisories reaches back to 2005.

Small Craft Advisories by county

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

Small Craft Advisories
6,465
Busiest year
2011396 small craft advisories
Average year
340over 19 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

The latest small craft advisories

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 21, 1:50 AM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryAKQ4 days
Sep 21, 12:10 AM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryLWX3 days
Sep 20, 12:59 PM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryLWX23 hr
Sep 18, 12:35 PM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryLWX48 hr
Sep 18, 12:35 PM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryLWX21 hr
Sep 17, 4:42 AM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryLWX18 hr
Sep 14, 10:36 PM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryLWX2 hr
Sep 13, 1:02 PM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryAKQ50 hr
Sep 13, 12:00 PM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryLWX43 hr
Sep 12, 5:18 AM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryLWX16 hr
Sep 8, 12:51 PM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryLWX45 hr
Sep 8, 12:48 PM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryAKQ47 hr

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. Rebuilt daily.