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Winter Storm Watches in Virginia, 2025

19 winter storm watches in 2025. 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 winter storm watches reaches back to 2005.

Winter Storm Watches by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2025. Tap one for its archive.

Winter Storm Watches
19
Busiest month
February9 winter storm watches
Busiest day
February 17, 20254 winter storm watches

Over time

By month

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 3, 2:34 PM ESTWinter Storm WatchRNKAlleghany, Amherst, Appomattox, Bath, Bedford, Bland and 27 more24 hr
Jan 3, 3:04 PM ESTWinter Storm WatchMRXLee, Russell, Scott, Washington, Wise, City of Bristol and 1 more24 hr
Jan 3, 3:23 PM ESTWinter Storm WatchRLXBuchanan, Dickenson23 hr
Jan 4, 2:50 AM ESTWinter Storm WatchAKQAccomack, Amelia, Caroline, Charles City, Chesterfield, Cumberland and 22 more25 hr
Jan 4, 3:28 AM ESTWinter Storm WatchLWXAlbemarle, Amherst, Arlington, Augusta, Clarke, Culpeper and 30 more24 hr
Jan 8, 3:33 AM ESTWinter Storm WatchMRXLee, Russell, Scott, Washington, Wise, City of Bristol and 1 more32 hr
Jan 9, 3:27 AM ESTWinter Storm WatchAKQAccomack, Amelia, Brunswick, Charles City, Chesterfield, Cumberland and 33 more23 hr
Jan 17, 2:07 PM ESTWinter Storm WatchLWXClarke, Fauquier, Frederick, Greene, Highland, Loudoun and 9 more23 hr
Feb 3, 2:39 PM ESTWinter Storm WatchLWXAlbemarle, Amherst, Augusta, Greene, Madison, Nelson and 5 more24 hr
Feb 9, 2:34 PM ESTWinter Storm WatchRNKAlleghany, Amherst, Appomattox, Bath, Bedford, Bland and 29 more12 hr
Feb 9, 2:51 PM ESTWinter Storm WatchAKQAccomack, Amelia, Caroline, Charles City, Chesterfield, Cumberland and 18 more24 hr
Feb 9, 3:09 PM ESTWinter Storm WatchLWXAlbemarle, Amherst, Arlington, Augusta, Clarke, Culpeper and 30 more24 hr
Feb 10, 2:51 PM ESTWinter Storm WatchLWXAlbemarle, Amherst, Augusta, Greene, Highland, Madison and 6 more22 hr
Feb 17, 2:23 PM ESTWinter Storm WatchRLXBuchanan, Dickenson13 hr
Feb 17, 2:38 PM ESTWinter Storm WatchLWXNelson, City of Charlottesville24 hr
Feb 17, 2:39 PM ESTWinter Storm WatchAKQAccomack, Amelia, Brunswick, Caroline, Charles City, Chesterfield and 43 more24 hr
Feb 17, 2:44 PM ESTWinter Storm WatchRNKAmherst, Appomattox, Buckingham, Campbell, Charlotte, Halifax and 5 more12 hr
Nov 10, 7:03 AM ESTWinter Storm WatchMRXScott3 min
Dec 7, 2:10 PM ESTWinter Storm WatchAKQBrunswick, Dinwiddie, Greensville, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Nottoway and 2 more7 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

89 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. February 17, 20254winter storm watches
  2. January 3, 20253winter storm watches
  3. February 9, 20253winter storm watches
  4. January 4, 20252winter storm watches
  5. January 8, 20251winter storm watches
  6. January 9, 20251winter storm watches
  7. January 17, 20251winter storm watches
  8. February 3, 20251winter storm watches
  9. February 10, 20251winter storm watches
  10. November 10, 20251winter storm watches
  11. December 7, 20251winter storm watches

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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.