Alert archive / North Carolina / Wind Advisories in 2009
Wind Advisory 2, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this wind advisory at Jan 14, 2009, 5:34 PM EST for Alleghany County, Ashe County, Watauga County, North Carolina; Grayson County, Virginia. It took effect at Jan 14, 2009, 9:00 PM EST. It was in force for 13 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 14, 2009, 5:34 PM EST (22:34 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 14, 2009, 9:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Jan 15, 2009, 9:57 AM EST
- In force
- 13 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
Counties Alleghany County, NC, Ashe County, NC, Watauga County, NC, Grayson County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1543 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 79 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS71 KRNK 142234 NPWRNK URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 534 PM EST WED JAN 14 2009 ...STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS OVERNIGHT INTO EARLY THURSDAY... .A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL SLIDE THROUGH THE REGION LATER THIS EVENING. ARCTIC AIR PRESSURE STARTING TO BUILD IN BEHIND THE FRONT WILL RESULT IN GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS ACROSS THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS LATE TONIGHT. NCZ001-002-018-VAZ015-150645- /O.NEW.KRNK.WI.Y.0002.090115T0200Z-090115T1700Z/ ASHE-ALLEGHANY NC-WATAUGA-GRAYSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WEST JEFFERSON...SPARTA...BOONE... INDEPENDENCE 534 PM EST WED JAN 14 2009 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 9 PM THIS EVENING TO 12 PM EST THURSDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 9 PM THIS EVENING TO 12 PM EST THURSDAY. NORTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO BETWEEN 15 AND 30 MPH LATER TONIGHT AS A COLD FRONT WORKS THROUGH FROM THE NORTHWEST. WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$
3 follow-up statements
000 WWUS71 KRNK 150253 NPWRNK URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 953 PM EST WED JAN 14 2009 ...STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS OVERNIGHT INTO EARLY THURSDAY... .A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL SLIDE THROUGH THE REGION OVERNIGHT. ARCTIC AIR PRESSURE STARTING TO BUILD IN BEHIND THE FRONT WILL RESULT IN GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS ACROSS THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS LATE TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY MORNING. NCZ001-002-018-VAZ015-151100- /O.CON.KRNK.WI.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-090115T1700Z/ ASHE-ALLEGHANY NC-WATAUGA-GRAYSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WEST JEFFERSON...SPARTA...BOONE... INDEPENDENCE 953 PM EST WED JAN 14 2009 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 12 PM EST THURSDAY... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 12 PM EST THURSDAY. NORTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO BETWEEN 15 AND 30 MPH LATER TONIGHT AS A COLD FRONT SLIDES THROUGH FROM THE WEST. WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$
000 WWUS71 KRNK 150923 NPWRNK URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 423 AM EST THU JAN 15 2009 ...STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS THIS MORNING... .ARCTIC AIR SURGING INTO THE REGION BEHIND A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL RESULT IN GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS ACROSS THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS THIS MORNING. NCZ001-002-018-VAZ015-151700- /O.CON.KRNK.WI.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-090115T1700Z/ ASHE-ALLEGHANY NC-WATAUGA-GRAYSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WEST JEFFERSON...SPARTA...BOONE... INDEPENDENCE 423 AM EST THU JAN 15 2009 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON EST TODAY... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON EST TODAY. WINDS WILL BE 15 TO 30 MPH FROM THE NORTHWEST THIS MORNING. WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$ AMS
000 WWUS71 KRNK 151457 NPWRNK URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 957 AM EST THU JAN 15 2009 ...WIND ADVISORY CANCELED... NCZ001-002-018-VAZ015-151600- /O.CAN.KRNK.WI.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-090115T1700Z/ ASHE-ALLEGHANY NC-WATAUGA-GRAYSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WEST JEFFERSON...SPARTA...BOONE... INDEPENDENCE 957 AM EST THU JAN 15 2009 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WINDS ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS OF NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA HAVE WEAKENED THIS MORNING WELL BELOW ADVISORY LEVELS. EXPECT A FEW GUSTS OF 30 TO 35 MPH THIS AFTERNOON HOWEVER WITH VERY COLD WIND CHILLS. $$
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.