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Fire Weather Watch 2, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this fire weather watch at Apr 8, 2012, 7:09 PM EDT for 8 counties in Virginia; 6 counties in North Carolina; Mercer County, Monroe County, Summers County, West Virginia. It took effect at Apr 9, 2012, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 8, 2012, 7:09 PM EDT (23:09 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 9, 2012, 12:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 9, 2012, 10:51 AM EDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
Counties Caswell County, NC, Rockingham County, NC, Stokes County, NC, Surry County, NC, Wilkes County, NC, Yadkin County, NC, Bland County, VA, Carroll County, VA, Giles County, VA, Grayson 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 23:12 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 fire weather watch 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 fire weather watch went out at Apr 8, 2:59 PM EDT, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 8, 2:59 PM EDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 7:09 PM EDT | Red Flag Warning | RNK | Alleghany, Amherst, Appomattox, Bath, Bedford, Bland and 27 more | 25 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.