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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 171, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 2013, 5:15 PM EDT for Stokes County, Surry County, Yadkin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 60 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 22, 2013, 5:15 PM EDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2013, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Stokes County, NC, Surry County, NC, Yadkin County, NC
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 22, 4:33 PM EDT, 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 22, 4:33 PM EDT, 42 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 21, 8:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Wythe | 24 min |
| Aug 21, 8:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Pulaski, City of Radford | 51 min |
| Aug 21, 8:55 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RNK | Montgomery, Pulaski, City of Radford | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 9:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | City of Galax | 32 min |
| Aug 21, 9:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Montgomery | 46 min |
| Aug 21, 9:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Carroll | 30 min |
| Aug 21, 10:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Floyd | 51 min |
| Aug 21, 10:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Franklin | 48 min |
| Aug 21, 11:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Amherst, Bedford, City of Lynchburg | 39 min |
| Aug 21, 11:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Pittsylvania | 37 min |
| Aug 22, 12:09 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford, Campbell, Halifax, Pittsylvania and 1 more | 51 min |
| Aug 22, 12:59 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Campbell | 61 min |
| Aug 22, 2:44 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | RNK | Carroll, Floyd, Franklin, Grayson, Henry, Patrick and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 22, 4:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Carroll, City of Galax | 63 min |
| Aug 22, 4:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Amherst, Bedford, Rockbridge, City of Lynchburg | 53 min |
| Aug 22, 5:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Campbell | 59 min |
| Aug 22, 6:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Henry, City of Martinsville | 60 min |
| Aug 22, 3:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Stokes | 56 min |
| Aug 22, 3:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rockingham, Stokes | 59 min |
| Aug 22, 5:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Surry | 59 min |
| Aug 22, 7:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Yadkin | 15 min |
| Aug 21, 8:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Monroe | 26 min |
| Aug 21, 10:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Greenbrier | 38 min |
| Aug 21, 10:26 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RNK | Greenbrier | 3 hr |
| Aug 22, 2:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Greenbrier | 35 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.