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Special Weather Statement, NWS Blacksburg, VA

June 19, 2013Rockbridge County, City of Buena Vista, City of Lexington, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this special weather statement at Jun 19, 2013, 3:13 PM EDT for Rockbridge County, City of Buena Vista, City of Lexington, Virginia. It was in force for 32 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 19, 2013, 3:13 PM EDT (19:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2013, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA

Counties City of Buena Vista, VA, City of Lexington, VA, Rockbridge County, VA

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 75 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: 4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -75 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 841 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 25 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 Jun 19, 1:18 PM EDT, 1 hour 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 1:18 PM EDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 19, 3:49 AM EDT, 11 hours 24 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
349 AM EDT WED JUN 19 2013

NCZ001>006-018>020-VAZ007-009>020-022>024-032>035-043>047-058-059-
WVZ042>045-200800-
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-ROCKBRIDGE-
PATRICK-FRANKLIN-BEDFORD-AMHERST-HENRY-PITTSYLVANIA-CAMPBELL-
APPOMATTOX-BUCKINGHAM-HALIFAX-CHARLOTTE-MERCER-SUMMERS-MONROE-
GREENBRIER-
349 AM EDT WED JUN 19 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL NORTH
CAROLINA...NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...CENTRAL VIRGINIA...SOUTH
CENTRAL VIRGINIA...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND
SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 19, 3:13 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
313 PM EDT WED JUN 19 2013

VAZ024-035-191945-
AMHERST VA-ROCKBRIDGE VA-
313 PM EDT WED JUN 19 2013

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A

* SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR...
  NORTHERN AMHERST COUNTY IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA...
  CENTRAL ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA...

* UNTIL 345 PM EDT

* AT 307 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
  AN INTENSE SHOWER NEAR ROCKBRIDGE BATHS...MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST
  AT 15 MPH.

* PEA SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
  SHOWER. A FEW RUMBLES OF THUNDER CAN ALSO BE HEARD FROM THIS STORM.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  ROCKBRIDGE BATHS...
  BUENA VISTA CITY...
  VESUVIUS...
  FAIRFIELD...
  AND ALTO.

LAT...LON 3788 7915 3786 7914 3785 7916 3782 7916
      3781 7917 3781 7914 3779 7911 3778 7908
      3762 7926 3786 7959 3802 7943
TIME...MOT...LOC 1907Z 310DEG 17KT 3791 7943

RCS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 19, 3:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Rockbridge, City of Buena Vista, City of Lexington	64 min
Jun 19, 4:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Botetourt	47 min
Jun 19, 5:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Montgomery	55 min
Jun 19, 5:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Montgomery	52 min
Jun 19, 5:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Botetourt, Roanoke	50 min
Jun 19, 6:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	City of Roanoke, City of Salem	56 min
Jun 19, 6:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Floyd	59 min
Jun 19, 6:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Wilkes	31 min

Nearby

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.