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Wind Chill Advisory 4, NWS Blacksburg, VA

November 23, 2013Bath County, Grayson County, Virginia; Alleghany County, Ashe County, Watauga County, North Carolina

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this wind chill advisory at Nov 23, 2013, 3:29 PM EST for Bath County, Grayson County, Virginia; Alleghany County, Ashe County, Watauga County, North Carolina. It took effect at Nov 24, 2013, 12:00 AM EST. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 23, 2013, 3:29 PM EST (20:29 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 24, 2013, 12:00 AM EST
Expired
Nov 24, 2013, 9:00 AM EST
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Blacksburg, VA

Counties Alleghany County, NC, Ashe County, NC, Watauga County, NC, Bath County, VA, Grayson County, VA

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 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 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 129 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2013-11-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2013-11-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -23 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
679 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
113 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind chill advisory 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 wind chill advisory went out at Nov 23, 1:02 PM EST, 2 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 23, 1:02 PM EST, 2 hours 27 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 23, 4:32 AM ESTWind AdvisoryRNKCarroll, Floyd, Grayson, City of Galax32 hr
Nov 23, 11:55 AM ESTFire Weather WatchRNKAlleghany, Amherst, Bath, Bedford, Botetourt, Craig and 4 more16 hr

Nearby

Wind Chill Advisories in North Carolina, 2013Wind Chill Advisories in Virginia, 2013Wind Chill Advisories in West Virginia, 2013Every wind chill advisory 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.