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Special Weather Statement, NWS Blacksburg, VA

August 22, 2014Bland County, Wythe County, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this special weather statement at Aug 22, 2014, 5:13 PM EDT for Bland County, Wythe County, Virginia. It was in force for 47 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: Aug 22, 2014, 5:13 PM EDT (21:13 UTC)
Expired: Aug 22, 2014, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA

Counties Bland County, VA, Wythe County, VA

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 147 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: 634 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 669 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 180 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 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 Aug 21, 7:48 PM EDT, 21 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 21, 7:48 PM EDT, 21 hours 25 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 21, 5:24 PM EDT, 23 hours 49 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
524 PM EDT THU AUG 21 2014

VAZ007-009>014-018>020-WVZ042>045-222130-
TAZEWELL-SMYTH-BLAND-GILES-WYTHE-PULASKI-MONTGOMERY-CRAIG-
ALLEGHANY VA-BATH-MERCER-SUMMERS-MONROE-GREENBRIER-
524 PM EDT THU AUG 21 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...WEST
CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS INTO TONIGHT AS
COMPLEXES OF STORMS DROP SOUTHEAST FROM KENTUCKY. THE PRIMARY
THREAT WOULD BE DAMAGING WINDS WITH ISOLATED LARGE HAIL POSSIBLE.
IN ADDITION...HEAVY RAINS FROM THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE
LOCALIZED FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

PERIODIC ROUNDS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS
THE REGION THROUGH THIS UPCOMING WEEKEND...BRINGING A RISK OF
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AND EXCESSIVE RAINFALL.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

NCZ001>006-018>020-VAZ015>017-022>024-032>035-043>047-058-059-222130-
ASHE-ALLEGHANY NC-SURRY-STOKES-ROCKINGHAM-CASWELL-WATAUGA-WILKES-
YADKIN-GRAYSON-CARROLL-FLOYD-ROANOKE-BOTETOURT-ROCKBRIDGE-PATRICK-
FRANKLIN-BEDFORD-AMHERST-HENRY-PITTSYLVANIA-CAMPBELL-APPOMATTOX-
BUCKINGHAM-HALIFAX-CHARLOTTE-
524 PM EDT THU AUG 21 2014

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

BANDS OR CLUSTERS OF STRONG TO ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL
BE POSSIBLE INTO TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING
WINDS ALONG WITH WITH ISOLATED LARGE HAIL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

PERIODIC ROUNDS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS
THE REGION THROUGH THIS UPCOMING WEEKEND...BRINGING A RISK OF
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AND EXCESSIVE RAINFALL.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 21, 8:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Halifax	48 min
Aug 22, 4:36 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	RNK	Bland, Giles, Montgomery, Pulaski, Smyth, Tazewell and 2 more	19 hr
Aug 22, 3:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	City of Martinsville	60 min
Aug 22, 4:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Bland	59 min
Aug 22, 4:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Tazewell	27 min
Aug 22, 5:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Carroll, Grayson, Wythe, City of Galax	48 min
Aug 22, 6:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Grayson	31 min
Aug 22, 7:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Ashe	24 min
Aug 22, 7:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Watauga	36 min
Aug 22, 3:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Mercer	49 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.