Alert archive / Virginia / Special Weather Statements in 2015
Special Weather Statement, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this special weather statement at Aug 5, 2015, 9:21 PM EDT for Henry County, Virginia. It was in force for 24 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 5, 2015, 9:21 PM EDT (01:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2015, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
County Henry County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 61 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
- 351 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2387 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
852 WWUS81 KRNK 060121 SPSRNK SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 921 PM EDT WED AUG 5 2015 VAZ032-043-060145- HENRY-PATRICK- 921 PM EDT WED AUG 5 2015 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN PATRICK AND SOUTHWESTERN HENRY COUNTIES... AT 920 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR CRITZ...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SPENCER... PENNS STORE... CRITZ... PATRICK SPRINGS... AND HORSE PASTURE. TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. LAT...LON 3659 8024 3671 7999 3654 7999 3654 8022 TIME...MOT...LOC 0120Z 250DEG 18KT 3657 8015 $$ RS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 8:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Bland | 26 min |
| Aug 5, 8:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Bland | 37 min |
| Aug 5, 9:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | City of Martinsville | 30 min |
| Aug 5, 10:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Floyd, Montgomery | 38 min |
| Aug 5, 10:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Pittsylvania, City of Danville | 59 min |
| Aug 5, 10:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Halifax | 63 min |
| Aug 5, 11:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Campbell | 59 min |
| Aug 6, 12:00 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Charlotte, Halifax | 60 min |
| Aug 6, 6:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Floyd | 29 min |
| Aug 6, 7:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Pulaski | 34 min |
| Aug 5, 8:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rockingham, Stokes | 44 min |
| Aug 6, 6:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Wilkes | 30 min |
| Aug 6, 6:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Surry | 34 min |
| Aug 6, 7:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Rockingham | 33 min |
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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.