Alert archive / Virginia / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this special weather statement at Aug 5, 2012, 5:54 PM EDT for Giles County, Virginia; Monroe County, West Virginia. It was in force for 66 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
- Aug 5, 2012, 5:54 PM EDT (21:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2012, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
Counties Giles County, VA, Monroe County, WV
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:53 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 309 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 795 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
855
WWUS81 KRNK 052154
SPSRNK
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
554 PM EDT SUN AUG 5 2012
VAZ011-018-WVZ042-044-052300-
CRAIG VA-GILES VA-MERCER WV-MONROE WV-
554 PM EDT SUN AUG 5 2012
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CRAIG...GILES...MERCER AND
MONROE COUNTIES...
AT 549 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER PETERSTOWN...
MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.
WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THIS STORM...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO
POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES AND SMALL STREAMS.
THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR PEARISBURG...AND BANE AROUND 600 PM...RED
SULPHUR SPRING AROUND 615 PM...KIMBALLTON...AND EGGLESTON AROUND 620
PM...PEMBROKE AROUND 625 PM...LINDSIDE AROUND 630 PM...INTERIOR AND
AND CASCADES AROUND 645 PM.
LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA OUTLET FOR LATER
UPDATES OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
LAT...LON 3736 8029 3737 8033 3731 8043 3718 8086
3719 8087 3718 8089 3722 8095 3740 8103
3745 8089 3743 8086 3748 8082 3765 8043
$$
KKThe office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 11:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Floyd | 57 min |
| Aug 5, 3:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Rockbridge, City of Buena Vista, City of Lexington | 60 min |
| Aug 5, 4:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Amherst, Botetourt, City of Buena Vista, City of Lexington | 64 min |
| Aug 5, 6:16 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RNK | Bland, Giles | 4 hr |
| Aug 5, 7:03 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Grayson, Smyth | 5 hr |
| Aug 5, 7:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Bedford, Botetourt, Carroll, Craig, Floyd, Grayson and 7 more | 65 min |
| Aug 4, 10:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Surry, Yadkin | 58 min |
| Aug 5, 4:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Ashe | 63 min |
| Aug 5, 5:22 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RNK | Ashe, Watauga | 104 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Virginia, 2012Special Weather Statements in West 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.