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Special Weather Statement, NWS Blacksburg, VA

July 30, 2009City of Danville, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this special weather statement at Jul 30, 2009, 5:13 PM EDT for City of Danville, Virginia. It was in force for 47 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: Jul 30, 2009, 5:13 PM EDT (21:13 UTC)
Expired: Jul 30, 2009, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA

County City of Danville, VA

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The text

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

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jul 29, 6:58 PM EDT, 22 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 29, 6:58 PM EDT, 22 hours 15 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
Jul 30, 3:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Bedford, City of Lynchburg	61 min
Jul 30, 4:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Patrick	60 min
Jul 30, 4:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Amherst	33 min
Jul 30, 5:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Campbell	61 min
Jul 30, 6:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Halifax	60 min
Jul 30, 6:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Appomattox, Campbell	56 min
Jul 30, 7:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Appomattox	60 min
Jul 30, 4:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Yadkin	57 min
Jul 30, 4:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Stokes, Surry	56 min
Jul 30, 7:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Caswell	56 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Virginia, 2009 Every special weather statement 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.