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Special Weather Statement, NWS Blacksburg, VA

June 28, 2011Greenbrier County, West Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this special weather statement at Jun 28, 2011, 3:46 AM EDT for Greenbrier County, West Virginia. It was in force for 29 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: Jun 28, 2011, 3:46 AM EDT (07:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 2011, 4:15 AM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA

County Greenbrier County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 129 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 438 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1579 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 119 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 28, 1:49 AM EDT, 1 hour 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 1:49 AM EDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 27, 10:04 PM EDT, 5 hours 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
1004 PM EDT MON JUN 27 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0835 PM     TSTM WND DMG     KING                    36.28N 80.36W
06/27/2011                   STOKES             NC   TRAINED SPOTTER

            TREES DOWN IN THE CITY OF KING

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RSTONEFI

Special weather statement, Jun 27, 10:40 PM EDT, 5 hours 6 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 27, 11:33 PM EDT, 4 hours 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 28, 1:09 AM EDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 28, 3:13 AM EDT, 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 28, 3:46 AM EDT, 0 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
Jun 27, 8:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Bland, Grayson, Smyth, Tazewell, Wythe	55 min
Jun 27, 8:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Patrick	47 min
Jun 27, 9:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	City of Martinsville	39 min
Jun 27, 9:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Pittsylvania	41 min
Jun 27, 10:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Pittsylvania	50 min
Jun 28, 3:13 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Floyd, Henry, Patrick, City of Martinsville	62 min
Jun 28, 2:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Tazewell	56 min
Jun 28, 2:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Bland, Giles, Tazewell	46 min
Jun 28, 3:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Giles	65 min
Jun 28, 3:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Craig	64 min
Jun 28, 3:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	City of Buena Vista	63 min
Jun 28, 3:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	City of Martinsville	62 min
Jun 28, 3:50 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Giles	5 hr
Jun 28, 4:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Botetourt, Craig, Montgomery, Roanoke, City of Roanoke, City of Salem	58 min
Jun 28, 4:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Franklin, Henry, Patrick, City of Martinsville	54 min
Jun 28, 4:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Charlotte, Halifax	27 min
Jun 28, 4:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Amherst, Rockbridge, City of Buena Vista, City of Lexington	54 min
Jun 28, 4:40 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Tazewell	4 hr
Jun 28, 5:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Franklin	28 min
Jun 28, 5:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Bedford, Botetourt, Franklin, Roanoke, Rockbridge	55 min
Jun 28, 5:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Henry, Pittsylvania, City of Martinsville	25 min
Jun 28, 5:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Franklin, Patrick	56 min
Jun 28, 5:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Franklin, Henry, Patrick	61 min
Jun 28, 5:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Amherst, Bedford, Campbell, City of Lynchburg	63 min
Jun 28, 5:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Appomattox, Buckingham	54 min
Jun 28, 6:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Amherst, Appomattox, Campbell, City of Lynchburg	29 min
Jun 28, 6:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Charlotte, Halifax	65 min
Jun 28, 6:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Appomattox, Campbell, Charlotte, Halifax	40 min
Jun 28, 6:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Appomattox, Buckingham	45 min
Jun 28, 7:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Halifax, City of Danville	52 min
Jun 28, 7:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Henry	64 min
Jun 27, 8:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Stokes	44 min
Jun 27, 9:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Caswell	51 min
Jun 27, 9:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Rockingham, Stokes	60 min
Jun 27, 10:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Caswell, Rockingham	43 min
Jun 28, 4:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Ashe, Watauga, Wilkes	64 min
Jun 28, 4:57 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Watauga	3 hr
Jun 28, 5:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Wilkes	59 min
Jun 28, 6:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Rockingham	60 min
Jun 28, 6:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Surry, Yadkin	38 min
Jun 28, 6:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Caswell	63 min
Jun 28, 6:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Surry, Yadkin	56 min
Jun 28, 6:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Surry, Yadkin	49 min
Jun 28, 6:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Caswell, Rockingham	62 min
Jun 28, 7:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Caswell	61 min
Jun 28, 1:09 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Mercer	36 min
Jun 28, 1:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Mercer, Summers	61 min

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Special Weather Statements in West Virginia, 2011 Every special weather statement 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.