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Special Weather Statement, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this special weather statement at Oct 19, 2011, 6:47 PM EDT for Greenbrier County, West Virginia. It was in force for 28 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 19, 2011, 6:47 PM EDT (22:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 19, 2011, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
County Greenbrier County, WV
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:48 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 229 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
- 525 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 19, 3:33 PM EDT, 3 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 19, 3:33 PM EDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 332 PM EDT WED OCT 19 2011 NCZ005-006-VAZ044>047-058-059-201945- ROCKINGHAM-CASWELL-PITTSYLVANIA-CAMPBELL-APPOMATTOX-BUCKINGHAM- HALIFAX-CHARLOTTE- 332 PM EDT WED OCT 19 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA...CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT IS DAMAGING WINDS...BUT ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NCZ001-018-VAZ015-201945- ASHE-WATAUGA-GRAYSON- 332 PM EDT WED OCT 19 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 4 PM EDT THURSDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. WIND ADVISORY. IN ADDITION TO STRONG WIND GUSTS IN HIGHER ELEVATIONS...RAIN IS EXPECTED TO CHANGE TO SNOW BEFORE DAYBREAK THURSDAY...AND MAY BRING UP TO AN INCH OF ACCUMULATION IN ELEVATIONS ABOVE 3500 FEET. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. WIND ADVISORY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. VAZ007-009-010-012-WVZ042-201945- TAZEWELL-SMYTH-BLAND-WYTHE-MERCER- 332 PM EDT WED OCT 19 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 4 PM EDT THURSDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. WIND ADVISORY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. WIND ADVISORY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NCZ002>004-019-020-VAZ011-013-014-016>020-022>024-032>035-043- WVZ043>045-201945- ALLEGHANY NC-SURRY-STOKES-WILKES-YADKIN-GILES-PULASKI-MONTGOMERY- CARROLL-FLOYD-CRAIG-ALLEGHANY VA-BATH-ROANOKE-BOTETOURT-ROCKBRIDGE- PATRICK-FRANKLIN-BEDFORD-AMHERST-HENRY-SUMMERS-MONROE-GREENBRIER- 332 PM EDT WED OCT 19 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA...NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...CENTRAL VIRGINIA...SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. RCS
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 19, 1:47 PM EDT, 5 hours before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
608 PM EDT WED OCT 19 2011
WVZ043>045-192245-
GREENBRIER WV-MONROE WV-SUMMERS WV-
608 PM EDT WED OCT 19 2011
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT GREENBRIER...MONROE AND SUMMERS
COUNTIES...
AT 605 PM EDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG A LINE FROM 6 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF RUPERT TO 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HINTON...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.
WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND BRIEF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL ARE POSSIBLE
WITH THESE STORMS.
THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR GLENRAY AROUND 615 PM...QUINWOOD AROUND 620
PM...DUO AROUND 625 PM...WILLIAMSBURG AROUND 635 PM AND TROUT AROUND
640 PM.
LAT...LON 3793 8037 3749 8076 3787 8083 3788 8076
3794 8081 3798 8078 3803 8081 3809 8076
3809 8071 3819 8056 3819 8055
DSSpecial weather statement, Oct 19, 6:47 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 19, 4:09 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | RNK | Bland, Grayson, Smyth, Tazewell, Wythe | 35 hr |
| Oct 19, 1:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Surry | 43 min |
| Oct 19, 6:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Greenbrier | 37 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.