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Heat Advisory 8, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this heat advisory at Jul 26, 2012, 5:36 AM EDT for 13 counties in Virginia; Caswell County, Rockingham County, North Carolina. It took effect at Jul 26, 2012, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 26, 2012, 5:36 AM EDT (09:36 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 26, 2012, 12:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Jul 26, 2012, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
Counties Caswell County, NC, Rockingham County, NC, Amherst County, VA, Appomattox County, VA, Bedford County, VA, Buckingham County, VA, Campbell County, VA, Charlotte County, VA, City of Danville, VA, City of Lynchburg, VA, City of Martinsville, VA, Franklin County, VA, Halifax County, VA, Henry County, VA, Pittsylvania County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:41 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 forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this heat advisory 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 heat advisory went out at Jul 26, 5:27 AM EDT, 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 5:27 AM EDT, 9 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 25, 2:41 PM EDT, 14 hours 55 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 241 PM EDT WED JUL 25 2012 NCZ001>003-018>020-VAZ007-009>020-022>024-032>035-WVZ042>045-261845- ASHE-ALLEGHANY NC-SURRY-WATAUGA-WILKES-YADKIN-TAZEWELL-SMYTH-BLAND- GILES-WYTHE-PULASKI-MONTGOMERY-GRAYSON-CARROLL-FLOYD-CRAIG- ALLEGHANY VA-BATH-ROANOKE-BOTETOURT-ROCKBRIDGE-PATRICK-FRANKLIN- BEDFORD-AMHERST-MERCER-SUMMERS-MONROE-GREENBRIER- 241 PM EDT WED JUL 25 2012 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. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED INTO THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THURSDAY. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED FRIDAY AS A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE REGION. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE STRONG TO SEVERE DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. ONLY ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NCZ004>006-VAZ043>047-058-059-261845- STOKES-ROCKINGHAM-CASWELL-HENRY-PITTSYLVANIA-CAMPBELL-APPOMATTOX- BUCKINGHAM-HALIFAX-CHARLOTTE- 241 PM EDT WED JUL 25 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA...CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER LOW AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED FRIDAY AS A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE REGION. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE STRONG TO SEVERE DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. ONLY ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. HEAT INDICES OF 105 TO 109 ARE EXPECTED THURSDAY AFTERNOON ACROSS MUCH OF THE PIEDMONT REGION...ESPECIALLY EAST OF A LINE FROM APPOMATTOX TO MARTINSVILLE. A HEAT ADVISORY MAY BE NEEDED FOR THIS REGION WITH LATER FORECASTS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
Nearby
Heat Advisories in Virginia, 2012Heat Advisories in North Carolina, 2012Every heat advisory in 2012
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.