Alert archive / Virginia / Wind Advisories in 2007
Wind Advisory 7, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this wind advisory at Jan 26, 2007, 2:34 PM EST for 10 counties in Virginia; Alleghany County, Ashe County, Watauga County, North Carolina. It took effect at Jan 26, 2007, 9:00 PM EST. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 26, 2007, 2:34 PM EST (19:34 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 26, 2007, 9:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Jan 27, 2007, 2:48 AM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
Counties Alleghany County, NC, Ashe County, NC, Watauga County, NC, Alleghany County, VA, Bath County, VA, Bland County, VA, Carroll County, VA, City of Covington, VA, City of Galax, VA, Craig County, VA, Giles County, VA, Grayson County, VA, Wythe County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 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 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 1050 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 316 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 261934 NPWRNK URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 234 PM EST FRI JAN 26 2007 ...STRONG WESTERLY WINDS ALONG THE RIDGES OVERNIGHT... .THE GRADIENT BETWEEN HIGH PRESSURE TO THE SOUTH AND LOW PRESSURE WELL TO THE NORTH WILL RESULT IN STRONG WESTERLY WINDS ACROSS THE HIGHER RIDGES OVERNIGHT. THE STRONGEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED AT ELEVATIONS ABOVE 3000 FEET. NCZ001-002-018-VAZ010>012-015-016-018>020-270345- /O.NEW.KRNK.WI.Y.0007.070127T0200Z-070127T1100Z/ ASHE-ALLEGHANY NC-WATAUGA-BLAND-GILES-WYTHE-GRAYSON-CARROLL-CRAIG- ALLEGHANY VA-BATH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WEST JEFFERSON...SPARTA...BOONE... BLAND...PEARISBURG...WYTHEVILLE...INDEPENDENCE...GALAX... NEW CASTLE...CLIFTON FORGE...HOT SPRINGS 234 PM EST FRI JAN 26 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 9 PM THIS EVENING TO 6 AM EST SATURDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 9 PM THIS EVENING TO 6 AM EST SATURDAY. WEST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO BETWEEN 20 AND 30 MPH...WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH ACROSS THE HIGHEST RIDGES OVERNIGHT. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 31 TO 39 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 57 MPH. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS71 KRNK 270252 NPWRNK URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 952 PM EST FRI JAN 26 2007 ...STRONG WEST WINDS ALONG THE RIDGES OVERNIGHT... .THE GRADIENT BETWEEN HIGH PRESSURE TO THE SOUTH AND LOW PRESSURE WELL TO THE NORTH WILL RESULT IN STRONG WEST WINDS ACROSS THE HIGHER RIDGES OVERNIGHT. THE STRONGEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED AT ELEVATIONS ABOVE 3000 FEET. NCZ001-002-018-VAZ010>012-015-016-018>020-271100- /O.CON.KRNK.WI.Y.0007.000000T0000Z-070127T1100Z/ ASHE-ALLEGHANY NC-WATAUGA-BLAND-GILES-WYTHE-GRAYSON-CARROLL-CRAIG- ALLEGHANY VA-BATH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WEST JEFFERSON...SPARTA...BOONE... BLAND...PEARISBURG...WYTHEVILLE...INDEPENDENCE...GALAX... NEW CASTLE...CLIFTON FORGE...HOT SPRINGS 952 PM EST FRI JAN 26 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM EST SATURDAY... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM EST SATURDAY. WEST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO BETWEEN 20 AND 30 MPH...WITH GUSTS TO 55 MPH ACROSS THE HIGHEST RIDGES OVERNIGHT. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 31 TO 39 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 57 MPH. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$ AMS
000 WWUS71 KRNK 270748 NPWRNK URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 248 AM EST SAT JAN 27 2007 ...GUSTY WINDS BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA EARLY THIS MORNING... NCZ001-002-018-VAZ010>012-015-016-018>020-270900- /O.CAN.KRNK.WI.Y.0007.000000T0000Z-070127T1100Z/ ASHE-ALLEGHANY NC-WATAUGA-BLAND-GILES-WYTHE-GRAYSON-CARROLL-CRAIG- ALLEGHANY VA-BATH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WEST JEFFERSON...SPARTA...BOONE... BLAND...PEARISBURG...WYTHEVILLE...INDEPENDENCE...GALAX... NEW CASTLE...CLIFTON FORGE...HOT SPRINGS 248 AM EST SAT JAN 27 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WEST WINDS WILL BE STRONG AND GUSTY ON THE RIDGE TOPS EARLY THIS MORNING...BUT ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW ADVISORY LEVELS. THE HIGHEST GUSTS WILL BE UP TO 40 OR 45 MPH AT ELEVATIONS ABOVE 3000 FEET. $$ JJ
Nearby
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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.