Alert archive / North Carolina / Wind Advisories in 2013
Wind Advisory 19, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this wind advisory at Dec 10, 2013, 2:48 AM EST for Alleghany County, Ashe County, Watauga County, North Carolina. It took effect at Dec 10, 2013, 12:00 PM EST. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 10, 2013, 2:48 AM EST (07:48 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 10, 2013, 12:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Dec 10, 2013, 7:25 PM EST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
Counties Alleghany County, NC, Ashe County, NC, Watauga County, NC
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:50 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 693 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.