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Special Weather Statement, NWS Blacksburg, VA

April 30, 2014City of Martinsville, Virginia; Rockingham County, North Carolina

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this special weather statement at Apr 30, 2014, 4:13 AM EDT for City of Martinsville, Virginia; Rockingham County, North Carolina. It was in force for 92 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: Apr 30, 2014, 4:13 AM EDT (08:13 UTC)
Expired: Apr 30, 2014, 5:45 AM EDT
In force: 92 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA

Counties Rockingham County, NC, City of Martinsville, VA

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 47 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 452 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 369 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 416 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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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 Apr 29, 7:54 PM EDT, 8 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 29, 7:54 PM EDT, 8 hours 19 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 29, 4:52 PM EDT, 11 hours 21 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 30, 4:47 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Henry, Pittsylvania	6 hr
Apr 30, 5:28 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Halifax	62 min
Apr 30, 6:35 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Halifax	40 min
Apr 30, 11:33 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Halifax	57 min
Apr 30, 11:48 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Charlotte	117 min
Apr 30, 12:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Halifax	30 min
Apr 30, 12:11 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Halifax, Pittsylvania	109 min
Apr 30, 12:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Charlotte	35 min
Apr 30, 1:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Charlotte	31 min
Apr 30, 1:47 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Charlotte	118 min
Apr 30, 2:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	City of Danville	50 min
Apr 30, 2:47 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Halifax, Pittsylvania, City of Danville	3 hr
Apr 30, 3:08 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Pittsylvania, City of Danville	3 hr
Apr 30, 3:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Halifax	59 min
Apr 30, 3:26 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Campbell, Charlotte, Halifax	3 hr
Apr 30, 3:51 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Appomattox, Buckingham	3 hr
Apr 30, 4:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Halifax, City of Danville	52 min
Apr 30, 6:54 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	RNK	Appomattox, Buckingham, Campbell, Charlotte	3 hr
Apr 30, 3:58 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Caswell	2 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Virginia, 2014 Special Weather Statements in North Carolina, 2014 Every special weather statement in 2014

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.