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Special Weather Statement, NWS Blacksburg, VA

May 14, 2012Wilkes County, North Carolina

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this special weather statement at May 14, 2012, 5:05 PM EDT for Wilkes County, North Carolina. It was in force for 25 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: May 14, 2012, 5:05 PM EDT (21:05 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 2012, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA

County Wilkes County, NC

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 134 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: 26 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -122 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 713 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 160 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 May 14, 3:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 14, 3:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 14, 3:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 14, 4:30 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
430 PM EDT MON MAY 14 2012

NCZ003-020-142100-
SURRY NC-YADKIN NC-
430 PM EDT MON MAY 14 2012

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SURRY AND YADKIN COUNTIES...

AT 427 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTH OF
ELKIN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH AND PEA-SIZED HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR BOONVILLE AROUND 455 PM AND BURCH AROUND 500
PM.

LAT...LON 3637 8077 3630 8060 3612 8080 3615 8087

DS

Special weather statement, May 14, 4:38 PM EDT, 27 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
438 PM EDT MON MAY 14 2012

NCZ018-142115-
WATAUGA NC-
438 PM EDT MON MAY 14 2012

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT WATAUGA COUNTY...

AT 435 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES WEST OF
BLOWING ROCK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH AND PEA-SIZED HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR MOSES CONE MEMORIAL PARK AROUND 505 PM AND
AHO AROUND 515 PM.

LAT...LON 3625 8164 3612 8154 3611 8155 3611 8179
      3611 8181 3611 8182 3613 8182

DS

Special weather statement, May 14, 5:05 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
505 PM EDT MON MAY 14 2012

NCZ019-142130-
WILKES NC-
505 PM EDT MON MAY 14 2012

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT WILKES COUNTY...

AT 501 PM EDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG A LINE FROM MC GRADY
TO 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BLOWING ROCK...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH AND PEA-SIZED HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE
STORMS. VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THESE STORMS...AND WILL CAUSE
WATER TO POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES AND SMALL
STREAMS.

THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR WILBAR AROUND 510 PM...MAPLE SPRINGS AROUND
520 PM...HALLS MILLS AROUND 525 PM AND ABSHERS AROUND 530 PM.

LAT...LON 3609 8149 3609 8152 3611 8154 3614 8150
      3620 8146 3621 8147 3636 8128 3641 8104
      3638 8103 3607 8143

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 6:20 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	RNK	Amherst, Bedford, Carroll, Franklin, Henry, Patrick and 5 more	11 hr
May 14, 7:23 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Franklin	6 hr
May 14, 4:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Yadkin	30 min
May 14, 4:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Watauga	37 min
May 14, 5:21 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Wilkes	6 hr
May 14, 5:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Wilkes	39 min
May 14, 5:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Wilkes	34 min
May 14, 6:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Wilkes, Yadkin	59 min
May 14, 7:04 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Yadkin	6 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in North Carolina, 2012 Every special weather statement 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.