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Special Weather Statement, NWS Blacksburg, VA

August 23, 2015Bland County, Giles County, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this special weather statement at Aug 23, 2015, 2:13 PM EDT for Bland County, Giles 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 23, 2015, 2:13 PM EDT (18:13 UTC)
Expired: Aug 23, 2015, 3:00 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA

Counties Bland County, VA, Giles County, VA

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:13 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 123 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: 865 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 97 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 83 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 23, 7:34 AM EDT, 6 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 23, 7:34 AM EDT, 6 hours 39 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 23, 3:29 AM EDT, 10 hours 44 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
329 AM EDT SUN AUG 23 2015

NCZ001>006-018>020-VAZ007-009>020-022>024-032>035-043>047-058-059-
WVZ042>044-507-508-240730-
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-
EASTERN GREENBRIER-WESTERN GREENBRIER-
329 AM EDT SUN AUG 23 2015

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...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 23, 2:13 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
213 PM EDT SUN AUG 23 2015

VAZ007-009>013-WVZ042-231900-
TAZEWELL-WYTHE-SMYTH-BLAND-PULASKI-GILES-MERCER-
213 PM EDT SUN AUG 23 2015

...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT NORTHWESTERN
PULASKI...GILES...SOUTHEASTERN TAZEWELL...NORTHERN
SMYTH...NORTHWESTERN WYTHE...BLAND AND SOUTHEASTERN MERCER
COUNTIES...

AT 211 PM EDT...A SCATTERED LINE OF STRONG SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
WAS EXTENDING FROM PEARISBURG TO NEAR ALLISON GAP...AND MOVING EAST
AT 20 MPH. MANY OF THESE SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE PRODUCING LOCALLY
HEAVY RAINFALL.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BLAND...
MARION...
BLUEFIELD...
PEARISBURG...
MECHANICSBURG...
AND SALTVILLE.

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS OCCURRING WITH SOME OF THESE STORMS...AND MAY
CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

LAT...LON 3739 8094 3735 8044 3732 8044 3726 8054
      3725 8061 3722 8061 3707 8085 3679 8170
      3693 8183
TIME...MOT...LOC 1811Z 254DEG 16KT 3730 8073 3691 8173

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 23, 2:21 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Bland, Giles, Pulaski	6 hr
Aug 23, 2:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Smyth	41 min
Aug 23, 3:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Pulaski	29 min
Aug 23, 3:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Smyth	27 min
Aug 23, 3:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Wythe	30 min
Aug 23, 3:33 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Wythe	4 hr
Aug 23, 3:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Smyth	23 min
Aug 23, 3:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Pulaski	28 min
Aug 23, 4:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Wythe	28 min
Aug 23, 4:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Smyth	35 min
Aug 23, 4:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Wythe	26 min
Aug 23, 4:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Craig	23 min
Aug 23, 5:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Smyth	22 min
Aug 23, 5:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Bland	23 min
Aug 23, 5:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Wythe	24 min
Aug 23, 6:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Bland	29 min
Aug 23, 6:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Tazewell	36 min
Aug 23, 6:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Craig	27 min
Aug 23, 7:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Bland	24 min
Aug 23, 7:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Bath	32 min
Aug 23, 2:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Ashe	59 min
Aug 23, 2:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Watauga	36 min
Aug 23, 7:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Alleghany	61 min
Aug 23, 7:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Ashe	27 min
Aug 23, 3:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Summers	32 min
Aug 23, 4:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Monroe	27 min
Aug 23, 7:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Greenbrier	35 min
Aug 23, 7:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Greenbrier, Summers	26 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.