Alert archive / North Carolina / High Wind Warnings in 2007
High Wind Warning 1, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this high wind warning at Feb 7, 2007, 1:06 AM EST for Alleghany County, Ashe County, Watauga County, North Carolina; Carroll County, Grayson County, City of Galax, Virginia. It was in force for 11 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
- Feb 7, 2007, 1:06 AM EST (06:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 7, 2007, 12:00 PM EST
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
Counties Alleghany County, NC, Ashe County, NC, Watauga County, NC, Carroll County, VA, City of Galax, VA, Grayson County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:12 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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 585 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 92 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 526 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 865 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS71 KRNK 070606 AAA NPWRNK URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 106 AM EST WED FEB 7 2007 ...STRONG WINDS EXPECTED LATE TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY MORNING... .STRONG WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS WILL DEVELOP BEHIND THE PASSAGE OF LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM...LIKELY MAXIMIZING IN INTENSITY TOWARD MORNING. NCZ001-002-018-VAZ015-016-071415- /O.UPG.KRNK.WI.Y.0010.000000T0000Z-070207T1400Z/ /O.NEW.KRNK.HW.W.0001.070207T0606Z-070207T1700Z/ ASHE-ALLEGHANY NC-WATAUGA-GRAYSON-CARROLL- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WEST JEFFERSON...SPARTA...BOONE... INDEPENDENCE...GALAX 106 AM EST WED FEB 7 2007 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON EST TODAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON EST TODAY. THE WIND ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO BETWEEN 25 AND 35 MPH LATE TONIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING...WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 60 MPH POSSIBLE OVER THE HIGHER RIDGES. THE STRONGEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED JUST PRIOR TO SUNRISE. A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR MORE CAN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS71 KRNK 071657 NPWRNK URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 1157 AM EST WED FEB 7 2007 NCZ001-002-018-VAZ015-016-071800- /O.EXP.KRNK.HW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-070207T1700Z/ ASHE-ALLEGHANY NC-WATAUGA-GRAYSON-CARROLL- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WEST JEFFERSON...SPARTA...BOONE... INDEPENDENCE...GALAX 1157 AM EST WED FEB 7 2007 ...HIGH WIND WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT NOON EST TODAY... THE HIGH WIND WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT NOON EST TODAY. WINDS WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH THIS AFTERNOON. WIND GUSTS WILL BE OUT OF THE NORTHWEST AT 30 TO 45 MPH THIS AFTERNOON. GUSTS WILL DROP TO LESS THAN 20 MPH BY 8:00 PM. $$ AMS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 6, 7:31 PM EST | Heavy Snow Warning | RNK | Alleghany, Bath, Botetourt, Craig, Giles, Roanoke and 6 more | 8 hr |
| Feb 7, 3:47 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | RNK | Alleghany, Amherst, Appomattox, Bath, Bedford, Bland and 18 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
High Wind Warnings in North Carolina, 2007High Wind Warnings in Virginia, 2007Every high wind warning 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.