Weather alerts in Surry County, Virginia

3,310 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Surry County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 3,310
Warnings: 649
Watches: 535
Advisories: 607
Busiest year: 2025192 alerts
Average year: 87over 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

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	383
Tornado Warning	36
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	210
Tornado Watch	131
Mesoscale Discussion	802
Special Weather Statement	625
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	19
Flash Flood Warning	71
River Flood Warning	3
Flash Flood Watch	42
Flood Watch	53
Areal Flood Advisory	140
Winter
Ice Storm Warning	1
Winter Storm Warning	18
Winter Storm Watch	23
Freezing Rain Advisory	1
Snow Advisory	3
Winter Weather Advisory	61
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	13
Extreme Heat Warning	3
Excessive Heat Watch	6
Extreme Heat Watch	1
Heat Advisory	103
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	2
Freeze Warning	33
Extreme Cold Watch	2
Freeze Watch	15
Cold Weather Advisory	11
Frost Advisory	37
Wind Chill Advisory	8
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	4
High Wind Watch	1
Wind Advisory	30
Fire
Red Flag Warning	20
Fire Weather Watch	18
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	91
Freezing Fog Advisory	3
Tropical
Storm Surge Warning	2
Tropical Storm Warning	7
Storm Surge Watch	2
Tropical Storm Watch	6
Coast and beach
Coastal Flood Warning	34
Coastal Flood Watch	25
Coastal Flood Advisory	119
Coastal Flood Statement	92

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 22, 2:57 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Warning	AKQ	65 hr
Sep 12, 5:17 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	5 hr
Sep 12, 4:43 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	32 min
Sep 4, 7:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AKQ	51 min
Sep 4, 6:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AKQ	43 min
Aug 28, 5:26 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	AKQ	91 min
Aug 14, 10:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	31 min
Aug 10, 8:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AKQ	15 min
Aug 10, 7:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	48 min
Aug 10, 7:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	44 min
Aug 10, 6:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	47 min
Aug 4, 6:58 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	AKQ	6 hr

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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.