Alert archive / Virginia / Freezing Rain Advisories in 2007
Freezing Rain Advisory 2, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this freezing rain advisory at Feb 1, 2007, 6:30 PM EST for 8 counties in Virginia; 6 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 1, 2007, 6:30 PM EST (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 2, 2007, 3:51 AM EST
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
Counties Caswell County, NC, Rockingham County, NC, Stokes County, NC, Surry County, NC, Wilkes County, NC, Yadkin County, NC, Charlotte County, VA, City of Danville, VA, City of Martinsville, VA, Franklin County, VA, Halifax County, VA, Henry County, VA, Patrick County, VA, Pittsylvania County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 337 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 898 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 81 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 290 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 421 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
Freezing Rain Advisories in Virginia, 2007Freezing Rain Advisories in North Carolina, 2007Every freezing rain advisory in 2007
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.