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Special Weather Statement, NWS Blacksburg, VA

September 10, 2015City of Danville, Virginia; Rockingham County, Stokes County, North Carolina

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this special weather statement at Sep 10, 2015, 2:21 PM EDT for City of Danville, Virginia; Rockingham County, Stokes County, North Carolina. It was in force for 54 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: Sep 10, 2015, 2:21 PM EDT (18:21 UTC)
Expired: Sep 10, 2015, 3:15 PM EDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA

Counties Rockingham County, NC, Stokes County, NC, City of Danville, VA

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:24 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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 33 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: 261 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -85 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 684 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 42 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 Sep 9, 7:04 PM EDT, 19 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 9, 7:04 PM EDT, 19 hours 17 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 9, 3:53 PM EDT, 22 hours 28 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
353 PM EDT WED SEP 9 2015

NCZ001>006-018>020-VAZ007-009>020-022>024-032>035-043>047-058-059-
WVZ042>044-507-508-102000-
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-
353 PM EDT WED SEP 9 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...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO THE
OVERNIGHT HOURS. SOME OF THESE MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL.

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

THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.

.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
Sep 9, 8:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Pittsylvania, City of Danville	15 min
Sep 9, 8:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Pittsylvania, City of Danville, City of Martinsville	58 min
Sep 9, 9:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	City of Danville	15 min
Sep 9, 9:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Halifax, Pittsylvania	58 min
Sep 9, 10:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Campbell, Charlotte, Halifax	62 min
Sep 10, 2:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Appomattox, Buckingham	62 min
Sep 10, 2:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Appomattox	22 min
Sep 10, 4:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Amherst	66 min
Sep 10, 4:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	City of Lynchburg	36 min
Sep 10, 4:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Rockbridge, City of Buena Vista, City of Lexington	48 min
Sep 10, 5:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Patrick	58 min
Sep 10, 5:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Appomattox, City of Lynchburg	61 min
Sep 10, 5:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Pittsylvania, City of Martinsville	65 min
Sep 10, 6:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Appomattox	59 min
Sep 10, 6:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Henry	25 min
Sep 10, 6:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Campbell	40 min
Sep 10, 7:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Charlotte	57 min
Sep 10, 3:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Rockingham	59 min
Sep 10, 3:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Surry, Wilkes	56 min
Sep 10, 4:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Yadkin	22 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in North Carolina, 2015 Special Weather Statements in Virginia, 2015 Every special weather statement in 2015

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.