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Special Weather Statement, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this special weather statement at Oct 9, 2009, 9:55 PM EDT for 5 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 65 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
- Oct 9, 2009, 9:55 PM EDT (01:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 9, 2009, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
Counties Carroll County, VA, City of Galax, VA, City of Radford, VA, Pulaski County, VA, Wythe County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 261 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 700 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 288 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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 Oct 9, 9:53 PM EDT, 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 9, 9:53 PM EDT, 2 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 728 PM EDT FRI OCT 9 2009 NCZ003>006-019-020-VAZ013-014-016>020-022>024-032>035-043>047-058- 059-102330- SURRY-STOKES-ROCKINGHAM-CASWELL-WILKES-YADKIN-PULASKI-MONTGOMERY- CARROLL-FLOYD-CRAIG-ALLEGHANY VA-BATH-ROANOKE-BOTETOURT-ROCKBRIDGE- PATRICK-FRANKLIN-BEDFORD-AMHERST-HENRY-PITTSYLVANIA-CAMPBELL- APPOMATTOX-BUCKINGHAM-HALIFAX-CHARLOTTE- 728 PM EDT FRI OCT 9 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA...NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...CENTRAL VIRGINIA...SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NCZ001-002-018-VAZ007-009>012-015-WVZ042>045-102330- ASHE-ALLEGHANY NC-WATAUGA-TAZEWELL-SMYTH-BLAND-GILES-WYTHE-GRAYSON- MERCER-SUMMERS-MONROE-GREENBRIER- 728 PM EDT FRI OCT 9 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING AS A LINE OF SCATTERED STORMS MOVES IN AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT. DAMAGING WIND GUSTS ARE THE MAIN THREAT...BUT THERE IS ALSO A POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED TORNADOES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 9, 7:45 PM EDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
745 PM EDT FRI OCT 9 2009
VAZ007-WVZ042-100115-
MERCER WV-TAZEWELL VA-
745 PM EDT FRI OCT 9 2009
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT MERCER AND TAZEWELL COUNTIES...
AT 743 PM EDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG A LINE FROM 7 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF HURLEY TO 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HURLEY...MOVING EAST AT
40 MPH.
WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. VERY HEAVY RAIN
WILL FALL FROM THESE STORMS...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO POND ON ROADS
AND QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES AND SMALL STREAMS.
THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR RAVEN...JEWELL RIDGE...AND GLEN BURKE
AROUND 815 PM...RICHLANDS AROUND 820 PM...CLAYPOOL HILL...CEDAR
BLUFF...AND BANDY AROUND 825 PM...AMONATE...COALDALE AND AND
CLIFFIELD AROUND 830 PM.
LAT...LON 3720 8178 3725 8175 3721 8167 3721 8154
3726 8149 3728 8142 3742 8129 3749 8127
3752 8122 3738 8091 3729 8104 3722 8127
3718 8127 3715 8133 3713 8129 3704 8145
3702 8145 3703 8182 3711 8190 3714 8191
EXPERIMENTAL
RCSSpecial weather statement, Oct 9, 7:49 PM EDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
749 PM EDT FRI OCT 9 2009
WVZ042-043-045-100115-
GREENBRIER WV-MERCER WV-SUMMERS WV-
749 PM EDT FRI OCT 9 2009
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT GREENBRIER...MERCER AND SUMMERS
COUNTIES...
AT 747 PM EDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG A LINE FROM 7 MILES
NORTHWEST OF BECKLEY TO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PINEVILLE...MOVING EAST
AT 60 MPH.
WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. VERY HEAVY RAIN
WILL FALL FROM THESE STORMS...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO POND ON ROADS
AND QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES AND SMALL STREAMS.
THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR WENONAH AROUND 805 PM...CAMP CREEK STATE
PARK...AND SPANISHBURG AROUND 810 PM...RAINELLE...FLAT TOP...DUNNS...
AND CAMP CREEK AROUND 815 PM...RUPERT...BINGHAM AND AND PIPESTEM
RESORT STATE PARK AROUND 820 PM.
LAT...LON 3817 8059 3796 8030 3772 8066 3739 8088
3744 8130 3752 8121 3758 8119 3760 8109
3765 8107 3772 8097 3771 8090 3775 8092
3778 8090 3783 8094 3787 8077 3794 8081
3801 8079 3809 8090 3811 8088 3808 8071
EXPERIMENTAL
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Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 9, 9:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alleghany, Bath, Botetourt, Rockbridge, City of Buena Vista, City of Covington and 1 more | 65 min |
| Oct 9, 9:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Amherst, Botetourt, Craig, Roanoke, City of Salem | 58 min |
| Oct 9, 10:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Amherst, City of Lynchburg | 41 min |
| Oct 9, 10:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Floyd, Montgomery, City of Radford | 35 min |
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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.