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Special Weather Statement, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this special weather statement at Jun 25, 2012, 1:32 PM EDT for Amherst County, City of Buena Vista, Virginia. It was in force for 28 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
- Jun 25, 2012, 1:32 PM EDT (17:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2012, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
Counties Amherst County, VA, City of Buena Vista, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:33 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, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1165 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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 Jun 25, 1:27 PM EDT, 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 1:27 PM EDT, 5 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 120 PM EDT MON JUN 25 2012 VAZ024-034-035-044>047-058-059-261730- ROCKBRIDGE-BEDFORD-AMHERST-PITTSYLVANIA-CAMPBELL-APPOMATTOX- BUCKINGHAM-HALIFAX-CHARLOTTE- 120 PM EDT MON JUN 25 2012 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 426 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL VIRGINIA...SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS A COLD FRONT MOVES ACROSS THE AREA. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NCZ001>006-018>020-VAZ007-009>020-022-023-032-033-043-WVZ042>045- 261730- ASHE-ALLEGHANY NC-SURRY-STOKES-ROCKINGHAM-CASWELL-WATAUGA-WILKES- YADKIN-TAZEWELL-SMYTH-BLAND-GILES-WYTHE-PULASKI-MONTGOMERY-GRAYSON- CARROLL-FLOYD-CRAIG-ALLEGHANY VA-BATH-ROANOKE-BOTETOURT-PATRICK- FRANKLIN-HENRY-MERCER-SUMMERS-MONROE-GREENBRIER- 120 PM EDT MON JUN 25 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA...NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS A COLD FRONT MOVES ACROSS THE AREA. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME STRONG DURING THE EVENING...PRODUCING HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 25, 9:15 AM EDT, 4 hours 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
915 AM EDT MON JUN 25 2012
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0935 PM TSTM WND DMG 3 ENE STONEVILLE 36.48N 79.86W
06/24/2012 ROCKINGHAM NC TRAINED SPOTTER
TREES DOWN ON SETTLEMENT LOOP
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FISHERSpecial weather statement, Jun 25, 1:32 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 8:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Campbell | 52 min |
| Jun 24, 10:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Roanoke, City of Roanoke, City of Salem | 43 min |
| Jun 25, 2:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Amherst, Appomattox | 44 min |
| Jun 25, 2:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Buckingham | 35 min |
| Jun 25, 3:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Appomattox | 22 min |
| Jun 24, 9:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Rockingham | 44 min |
| Jun 24, 9:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rockingham | 49 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Virginia, 2012Every 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.