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Freeze Warning 3, NWS Blacksburg, VA

May 18, 200914 counties in Virginia; Monroe County, West Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this freeze warning at May 18, 2009, 3:57 AM EDT for 14 counties in Virginia; Monroe County, West Virginia. It took effect at May 19, 2009, 3:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 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: May 18, 2009, 3:57 AM EDT (07:57 UTC)
In effect from: May 19, 2009, 3:00 AM EDT
Expired: May 19, 2009, 9:00 AM EDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA

Counties Alleghany County, VA, Bath County, VA, Bland County, VA, Carroll County, VA, City of Covington, VA, City of Galax, VA, City of Radford, VA, Craig County, VA, Floyd County, VA, Giles County, VA, Grayson County, VA, Montgomery County, VA, Pulaski County, VA, Wythe County, VA, Monroe County, WV

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:58 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 May 17, 7:41 PM EDT, 8 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 17, 7:41 PM EDT, 8 hours 16 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 17, 4:25 AM EDT, 23 hours 32 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
May 18, 3:57 AM EDT	Frost Advisory	RNK	Alleghany, Amherst, Bedford, Bland, Botetourt, Craig and 17 more	29 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Virginia, 2009 Freeze Warnings in West Virginia, 2009 Every freeze warning in 2009

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.