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Freeze Warning 1, NWS Blacksburg, VA

October 12, 2006Alleghany County, Bath County, City of Covington, Virginia; Monroe County, Summers County, West Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this freeze warning at Oct 12, 2006, 2:38 PM EDT for Alleghany County, Bath County, City of Covington, Virginia; Monroe County, Summers County, West Virginia. It took effect at Oct 13, 2006, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 12, 2006, 2:38 PM EDT (18:38 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 13, 2006, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired: Oct 13, 2006, 8:00 AM EDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA

Counties Alleghany County, VA, Bath County, VA, City of Covington, VA, Monroe County, WV, Summers County, WV

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this freeze warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Blacksburg, VA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze warning went out at Oct 12, 2:30 PM EDT, 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 12, 2:30 PM EDT, 8 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 12, 5:38 AM EDT, 9 hours before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 11, 8:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Grayson	38 min
Oct 12, 4:37 AM EDT	Freeze Watch	RNK	Alleghany, Amherst, Appomattox, Bath, Bedford, Bland and 23 more	35 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Virginia, 2006 Freeze Warnings in West Virginia, 2006 Every freeze warning in 2006

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.