Alert archive / West Virginia / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 13, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this wind advisory at Mar 5, 2011, 11:02 AM EST for Mercer County, West Virginia; Tazewell County, Virginia. It was in force for 17 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 5, 2011, 11:02 AM EST (16:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 2011, 4:09 AM EST
- In force
- 17 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
Counties Tazewell County, VA, Mercer County, WV
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:04 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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 4.0 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
- 657 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 287 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
875 WWUS71 KRNK 051602 NPWRNK URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 1102 AM EST SAT MAR 5 2011 ...STRONG SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST WINDS THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... .WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT APPROACHING FROM THE WEST THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SOUTHERLY WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH OR HIGHER WILL BE POSSIBLE. VAZ007-WVZ042-060015- /O.NEW.KRNK.WI.Y.0013.110305T1602Z-110306T1400Z/ TAZEWELL-MERCER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...TAZEWELL...BLUEFIELD...FLAT TOP 1102 AM EST SAT MAR 5 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM EST SUNDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM EST SUNDAY. * LOCATIONS...HIGHER ELEVATIONS AS WELL AS LOCATIONS WHERE SOUTHEAST WINDS CHANNEL THROUGH THE VALLEYS. * WINDS...SOUTHEAST 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 55 MPH. * TIMING...STRONGEST THROUGH EARLY THIS AFTERNOON AND THEN AGAIN OVERNIGHT. * IMPACTS...DOWNED TREES AND POWER LINES WILL BE POSSIBLE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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. && $$
3 follow-up statements
959 WWUS71 KRNK 051946 NPWRNK URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 246 PM EST SAT MAR 5 2011 ...STRONG SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST WINDS THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... .STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT APPROACHING FROM THE WEST TONIGHT. SOUTHERLY WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH OR HIGHER WILL BE POSSIBLE. VAZ007-WVZ042-060400- /O.CON.KRNK.WI.Y.0013.000000T0000Z-110306T1400Z/ TAZEWELL-MERCER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...TAZEWELL...BLUEFIELD...FLAT TOP 246 PM EST SAT MAR 5 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM EST SUNDAY... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM EST SUNDAY. * LOCATIONS...HIGHER ELEVATIONS AS WELL AS LOCATIONS WHERE SOUTHEAST WINDS CHANNEL OR DOWNSLOPE THROUGH THE VALLEYS. * WINDS...SOUTHEAST 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 55 MPH. * TIMING...THIS EVENING THROUGH LATE TONIGHT. * IMPACTS...DOWNED TREES AND POWER LINES WILL BE POSSIBLE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
176 WWUS71 KRNK 060302 NPWRNK URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 1002 PM EST SAT MAR 5 2011 ...STRONG SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST WINDS THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... .WINDS WILL BECOME STRONGER AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT APPROACHING FROM THE WEST OVERNIGHT. SOUTHERLY WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH OR HIGHER WILL BE POSSIBLE. VAZ007-WVZ042-061115- /O.CON.KRNK.WI.Y.0013.000000T0000Z-110306T1400Z/ TAZEWELL-MERCER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...TAZEWELL...BLUEFIELD...FLAT TOP 1002 PM EST SAT MAR 5 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM EST SUNDAY... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM EST SUNDAY. * LOCATIONS...HIGHER ELEVATIONS AS WELL AS LOCATIONS WHERE SOUTHEAST WINDS CHANNEL OR DOWNSLOPE THROUGH THE VALLEYS. * WINDS...SOUTH 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH. * TIMING...STRONGEST WINDS EXPECTED BETWEEN 100 AM AND 700 AM. * IMPACTS...DOWNED TREES AND POWER LINES WILL BE POSSIBLE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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. && $$
070 WWUS71 KRNK 060909 NPWRNK URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 409 AM EST SUN MAR 6 2011 VAZ007-WVZ042-061015- /O.CAN.KRNK.WI.Y.0013.000000T0000Z-110306T1400Z/ TAZEWELL-MERCER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...TAZEWELL...BLUEFIELD...FLAT TOP 409 AM EST SUN MAR 6 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. THE WINDS HAVE WEAKENED FROM THE SOUTHEAST AND ARE GOING TO SHIFT TO THE WEST AS A COLD FRONT MOVES ACROSS. GUSTS BEHIND THE FRONT WILL BE IN THE 20 TO 30 MPH RANGE BY THIS AFTERNOON. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 3:43 AM EST | Flood Watch | RNK | Mercer, Monroe, Summers | 39 hr |
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.