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Freeze Warning 1, NWS Blacksburg, VA

April 14, 200812 counties in Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this freeze warning at Apr 14, 2008, 3:04 PM EDT for 12 counties in Virginia. It took effect at Apr 15, 2008, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 9 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: Apr 14, 2008, 3:04 PM EDT (19:04 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 15, 2008, 12:00 AM EDT
Expired: Apr 15, 2008, 9:00 AM EDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA

Counties Alleghany County, VA, Amherst County, VA, Appomattox County, VA, Bedford County, VA, Botetourt County, VA, Buckingham County, VA, Campbell County, VA, City of Buena Vista, VA, City of Covington, VA, City of Lexington, VA, City of Lynchburg, VA, Rockbridge County, VA

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:06 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 Apr 14, 2:54 PM EDT, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 14, 2:54 PM EDT, 10 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 14, 5:13 AM EDT, 9 hours 51 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 14, 9:41 AM EDT, 5 hours 23 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
Apr 14, 3:04 PM EDT	Frost Advisory	RNK	Charlotte, Franklin, Halifax, Henry, Patrick, Pittsylvania and 5 more	18 hr
Apr 14, 3:04 PM EDT	Freeze Watch	RNK	Alleghany, Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford, Botetourt, Buckingham and 17 more	13 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Virginia, 2008 Every freeze warning in 2008

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.