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Freeze Warning 3, NWS Blacksburg, VA

October 14, 200612 counties in Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this freeze warning at Oct 14, 2006, 11:16 AM EDT for 12 counties in Virginia. It took effect at Oct 15, 2006, 3:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 5 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 14, 2006, 11:16 AM EDT (15:16 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 15, 2006, 3:00 AM EDT
Expired: Oct 15, 2006, 8:00 AM EDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA

Counties Amherst County, VA, Appomattox County, VA, Bedford County, VA, Buckingham County, VA, Campbell County, VA, Charlotte County, VA, City of Danville, VA, City of Lynchburg, VA, City of Martinsville, VA, Halifax County, VA, Henry County, VA, Pittsylvania County, VA

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:15 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 13, 7:27 PM EDT, 15 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 13, 7:27 PM EDT, 15 hours 49 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 13, 6:10 PM EDT, 17 hours 6 minutes 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 14, 3:29 AM EDT	Frost Advisory	RNK	Botetourt, Charlotte, Franklin, Halifax, Henry, Patrick and 6 more	29 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in 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.