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Special Weather Statement, NWS Blacksburg, VA

June 9, 2009Greenbrier County, West Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this special weather statement at Jun 9, 2009, 3:08 AM EDT for Greenbrier County, West Virginia. It was in force for 52 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 9, 2009, 3:08 AM EDT (07:08 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2009, 4:00 AM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA

County Greenbrier County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 136 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1258 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1359 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WWUS81 KRNK 090708
SPSRNK

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
308 AM EDT TUE JUN 9 2009

WVZ045-090800-
GREENBRIER WV-
308 AM EDT TUE JUN 9 2009

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT GREENBRIER COUNTY...

AT 307 AM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR DUO...MOVING
EAST AT 20 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. 

THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR DUO AROUND 315 AM...LEONARD AROUND 345 AM AND
BEARTOWN STATE PARK AROUND 400 AM.

LAT...LON 3823 8035 3811 8036 3805 8024 3799 8073
      3809 8076 3808 8071 3824 8050 3826 8041

$$

EXPERIMENTAL

DS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 3:43 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Bath	32 min
Jun 9, 4:44 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Alleghany, Bath, Botetourt, City of Covington	61 min
Jun 9, 5:37 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Rockbridge	53 min
Jun 9, 2:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Patrick	35 min
Jun 9, 3:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Carroll	37 min
Jun 9, 3:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Carroll, Wythe	44 min
Jun 9, 4:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Carroll	43 min
Jun 9, 4:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Floyd, Franklin, Montgomery, Patrick	33 min
Jun 9, 4:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Bath, Rockbridge	59 min
Jun 9, 6:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Franklin, City of Roanoke, City of Salem	28 min
Jun 9, 6:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Floyd, Franklin, Montgomery, Roanoke, City of Salem	81 min
Jun 9, 6:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Amherst, Appomattox, Buckingham	96 min
Jun 9, 6:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Carroll	30 min
Jun 9, 6:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Buckingham	55 min
Jun 9, 6:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Carroll	29 min
Jun 9, 6:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Buckingham	60 min
Jun 9, 6:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Amherst, Appomattox, Campbell, City of Lynchburg	87 min
Jun 9, 7:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Charlotte	59 min
Jun 9, 2:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Alleghany	40 min
Jun 9, 3:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Stokes	39 min
Jun 9, 4:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Wilkes	67 min
Jun 9, 4:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Wilkes	34 min
Jun 9, 4:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Stokes	42 min
Jun 9, 5:17 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Wilkes	6 hr
Jun 9, 5:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Surry	72 min
Jun 9, 5:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Alleghany	36 min
Jun 9, 5:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Alleghany, Wilkes	46 min
Jun 9, 6:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Ashe	52 min
Jun 9, 7:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Ashe, Watauga	50 min
Jun 9, 4:04 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Greenbrier	56 min

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.