Alert archive / Virginia / High Wind Warnings in 2011
High Wind Warning 6, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this high wind warning at Mar 9, 2011, 3:36 PM EST for Bland County, Smyth County, Tazewell County, Virginia; Mercer County, West Virginia. It was in force for 8 hr. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 9, 2011, 3:36 PM EST (20:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 2011, 11:14 PM EST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
Counties Bland County, VA, Smyth County, VA, Tazewell County, VA, Mercer County, WV
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:37 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 4:04 PM EST | NON-TSTM WND DMG | Tazewell, VA | TREES DOWN ON DRY FORK ROAD |
| Mar 9, 4:57 PM EST | NON-TSTM WND GST 60 | Bluefield, WV | BLF ASOS REPORTED A GUST TO 60 MPH. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 614 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 468 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 714 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
443 WWUS71 KRNK 092036 NPWRNK URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 336 PM EST WED MAR 9 2011 ...GUSTY SOUTHEAST WINDS EXPECTED THROUGH THIS EVENING... .STRONG SOUTHEAST WIND GUSTS ARE EXPECTED THIS EVENING AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING STORM SYSTEM. VAZ007-009-WVZ042-100445- /O.UPG.KRNK.WI.Y.0015.000000T0000Z-110310T0500Z/ /O.NEW.KRNK.HW.W.0006.110309T2036Z-110310T0500Z/ TAZEWELL-SMYTH-MERCER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...TAZEWELL...MARION...BLUEFIELD... FLAT TOP 336 PM EST WED MAR 9 2011 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST TONIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST TONIGHT. THE WIND ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * LOCATIONS...LEEWARD SIDE OF THE NORTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST ORIENTED RIDGES. * HAZARDS...STRONG WIND GUSTS. * WINDS...SOUTHEAST 15 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH. * TIMING...REST OF THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...DOWNED TREES AND POWER LINES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS OF 58 MPH ARE LIKELY TO CAUSE SPORADIC POWER OUTAGES...FALLEN TREES...MINOR PROPERTY DAMAGE...AND DANGEROUS DRIVING CONDITIONS FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. RESIDENTS SHOULD MOVE UNFASTENED ITEMS...SUCH AS GARBAGE CANS AND DECK FURNITURE...INDOORS. && $$ VAZ010-100445- /O.NEW.KRNK.HW.W.0006.110309T2036Z-110310T0500Z/ BLAND- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...BLAND 336 PM EST WED MAR 9 2011 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST TONIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST TONIGHT. * LOCATIONS...LEEWARD SIDE OF THE NORTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST ORIENTED RIDGES. * HAZARDS...STRONG WIND GUSTS. * WINDS...SOUTHEAST 15 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH. * TIMING...REST OF THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...DOWNED TREES AND POWER LINES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS OF 58 MPH ARE LIKELY TO CAUSE SPORADIC POWER OUTAGES...FALLEN TREES...MINOR PROPERTY DAMAGE...AND DANGEROUS DRIVING CONDITIONS FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. RESIDENTS SHOULD MOVE UNFASTENED ITEMS...SUCH AS GARBAGE CANS AND DECK FURNITURE...INDOORS. && $$
1 follow-up statement
686 WWUS71 KRNK 100414 NPWRNK URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 1114 PM EST WED MAR 9 2011 VAZ007-009-010-WVZ042-100515- /O.CAN.KRNK.HW.W.0006.000000T0000Z-110310T0500Z/ TAZEWELL-SMYTH-BLAND-MERCER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...TAZEWELL...MARION...BLAND...BLUEFIELD... FLAT TOP 1114 PM EST WED MAR 9 2011 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH WIND WARNING. WINDS HAVE WEAKENED AND SHOULD STAY WELL BELOW ADVISORY AND WARNING LEVELS TONIGHT. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 10:34 AM EST | River Flood Warning | RNK | Botetourt | 24 hr |
| Mar 9, 10:34 AM EST | River Flood Warning | RNK | Amherst, Bedford | 24 hr |
| Mar 9, 10:34 AM EST | River Flood Warning | RNK | Appomattox, Buckingham, Nelson | 24 hr |
| Mar 9, 10:34 AM EST | River Flood Warning | RNK | Albemarle, Buckingham | 24 hr |
| Mar 9, 10:34 AM EST | River Flood Warning | RNK | Buckingham, Fluvanna | 3 days |
| Mar 9, 11:07 AM EST | River Flood Warning | RNK | Charlotte, Halifax | 48 hr |
| Mar 9, 11:07 AM EST | River Flood Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania, City of Danville | 23 hr |
| Mar 9, 11:07 AM EST | River Flood Warning | RNK | Halifax | 23 hr |
| Mar 9, 11:07 AM EST | River Flood Warning | RNK | Halifax | 48 hr |
| Mar 9, 11:14 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | RNK | Bath | 4 hr |
| Mar 9, 2:04 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | RNK | Bland, Smyth, Tazewell, Wythe | 7 hr |
Nearby
High Wind Warnings in Virginia, 2011High Wind Warnings in West Virginia, 2011Every high wind warning in 2011
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.