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Special Weather Statement, NWS Blacksburg, VA

February 29, 20125 counties in Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this special weather statement at Feb 29, 2012, 9:41 AM EST for 5 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 64 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: Feb 29, 2012, 9:41 AM EST (14:41 UTC)
Expired: Feb 29, 2012, 10:45 AM EST
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA

Counties Amherst County, VA, Botetourt County, VA, City of Buena Vista, VA, City of Lexington, VA, Rockbridge County, VA

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 63 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 651 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 313 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 338 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 Feb 29, 9:35 AM EST, 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 29, 9:35 AM EST, 6 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 29, 4:26 AM EST, 5 hours 15 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Feb 29, 9:41 AM EST, 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
Feb 29, 9:43 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Charlotte	32 min
Feb 29, 10:04 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Appomattox, Bedford, Buckingham, City of Lynchburg	56 min
Feb 29, 10:11 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Franklin	64 min
Feb 29, 10:32 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Campbell	43 min
Feb 29, 4:07 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Alleghany, Bath	53 min
Feb 29, 4:23 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Alleghany	38 min
Feb 29, 5:00 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Alleghany, Bath, City of Covington	30 min
Feb 29, 5:12 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Giles	48 min
Feb 29, 5:17 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Alleghany, Bath, Rockbridge, City of Lexington	28 min
Feb 29, 5:41 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	RNK	City of Buena Vista	49 min
Feb 29, 5:44 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	RNK	City of Covington	31 min
Feb 29, 5:47 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	RNK	Alleghany, Bath, Botetourt, Craig, Rockbridge, City of Covington and 1 more	6 hr
Feb 29, 6:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Giles	26 min
Feb 29, 6:24 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Buckingham	36 min
Feb 29, 6:53 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Tazewell	22 min
Feb 29, 4:34 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Greenbrier, Mercer, Summers	3 hr
Feb 29, 4:53 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Summers	37 min
Feb 29, 6:06 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Mercer	24 min

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.