Alert archive / Virginia / Freeze Warnings in 2013

Freeze Warning 5, NWS Blacksburg, VA

October 23, 201316 counties in Virginia; Alleghany County, Ashe County, Watauga County, North Carolina; Mercer County, Monroe County, Summers County, West Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this freeze warning at Oct 23, 2013, 4:03 AM EDT for 16 counties in Virginia; Alleghany County, Ashe County, Watauga County, North Carolina; Mercer County, Monroe County, Summers County, West Virginia. It took effect at Oct 24, 2013, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 7 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 23, 2013, 4:03 AM EDT (08:03 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 24, 2013, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired
Oct 24, 2013, 9:00 AM EDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Blacksburg, VA
All 22 counties

Alleghany County, NC, Ashe County, NC, Watauga County, NC, Alleghany County, VA, Bath County, VA, Bland County, VA, Carroll County, VA, City of Covington, VA, City of Galax, VA, City of Radford, VA, Craig County, VA, Floyd County, VA, Giles County, VA, Grayson County, VA, Montgomery County, VA, Pulaski County, VA, Smyth County, VA, Tazewell County, VA, Wythe County, VA, Mercer County, WV, Monroe County, WV, Summers County, WV

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:03 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 office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 23, 2:42 PM EDTFrost AdvisoryRNKAlleghany, Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford, Bland, Botetourt and 27 more18 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Virginia, 2013Freeze Warnings in North Carolina, 2013Freeze Warnings in West Virginia, 2013Every freeze warning in 2013

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.