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Special Weather Statement, NWS Blacksburg, VA

June 18, 2014Tazewell County, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this special weather statement at Jun 18, 2014, 1:41 PM EDT for Tazewell County, Virginia. It was in force for 49 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 18, 2014, 1:41 PM EDT (17:41 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 2014, 2:30 PM EDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA

County Tazewell County, VA

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 179 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: 1210 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -132 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1237 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 50 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 18, 12:19 PM EDT, 1 hour 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 12:19 PM EDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 18, 12:03 PM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
1203 PM EDT WED JUN 18 2014

NCZ001>006-018>020-VAZ007-009>020-022>024-032>035-043>047-058-059-
WVZ042>045-191615-
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-
1203 PM EDT WED JUN 18 2014

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...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON.
SOME OF THESE COULD BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WIND
GUSTS AND HAIL. ALSO...SLOW MOVING STORMS COULD PRODUCE LOCALIZED
FLOODING.

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

THERE WILL BE A THREAT OF STORMS EACH DAY..WITH THE GREATEST
COVERAGE THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.  EACH DAY...THERE WILL BE A
THREAT OF STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS...ALONG WITH ISOLATED FLASH
FLOODING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 18, 1:41 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
141 PM EDT WED JUN 18 2014

VAZ007-009-010-181830-
SMYTH VA-TAZEWELL VA-BLAND VA-
141 PM EDT WED JUN 18 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A

* SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR...
  NORTHERN SMYTH COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...
  SOUTHEASTERN TAZEWELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...
  SOUTHWESTERN BLAND COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...

* UNTIL 230 PM EDT

* AT 140 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
  AN INTENSE SHOWER NEAR BROADFORD...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH.

* WIND GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS SHOWER.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SALTVILLE...
  ASBERRYS...
  ALLISON GAP...
  BROADFORD...
  AND NEBO.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS STORM WILL LIKELY INTENSIFY INTO A THUNDERSTORM...SO MONITOR
LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS...FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

&&

LAT...LON 3695 8182 3696 8178 3698 8178 3714 8135
      3696 8136 3697 8136 3696 8138 3694 8136
      3691 8136 3687 8178 3693 8183
TIME...MOT...LOC 1736Z 258DEG 22KT 3695 8172

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 18, 3:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Tazewell	90 min
Jun 18, 4:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Pulaski, City of Radford	42 min
Jun 18, 5:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Montgomery, City of Radford	57 min
Jun 18, 5:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Giles	51 min
Jun 18, 6:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Patrick	31 min
Jun 18, 7:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Carroll	38 min
Jun 18, 7:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Bedford	29 min
Jun 18, 4:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Surry	52 min
Jun 18, 4:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Stokes, Surry	40 min
Jun 18, 5:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Yadkin	31 min
Jun 18, 5:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Watauga	60 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Virginia, 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.