Alert archive / Virginia / Freeze Warnings in 2010
Freeze Warning 2, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this freeze warning at Apr 18, 2010, 3:04 PM EDT for 16 counties in Virginia; Alleghany County, Ashe County, Watauga County, North Carolina; Mercer County, Monroe County, Summers County, West Virginia. It took effect at Apr 19, 2010, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 7 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
- Apr 18, 2010, 3:04 PM EDT (19:04 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 19, 2010, 2:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2010, 9:26 AM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
All 22 counties
Alleghany County, NC, Ashe County, NC, Watauga County, NC, 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, Smyth County, VA, Tazewell County, VA, Wythe County, VA, Mercer County, WV, Monroe County, WV, Summers County, WV
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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 Apr 17, 7:37 PM EDT, 19 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 17, 7:37 PM EDT, 19 hours 27 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 10:05 AM EDT | Freeze Watch | RNK | Alleghany, Bath, Bland, Carroll, Craig, Floyd and 10 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 18, 3:04 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | RNK | Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford, Botetourt, Buckingham, Campbell and 15 more | 18 hr |
Nearby
Freeze Warnings in Virginia, 2010Freeze Warnings in North Carolina, 2010Freeze Warnings in West Virginia, 2010Every freeze warning in 2010
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.