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Special Weather Statement, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this special weather statement at Sep 30, 2015, 4:11 PM EDT for Watauga County, North Carolina. It was in force for 64 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 30, 2015, 4:11 PM EDT (20:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 30, 2015, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
County Watauga County, NC
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:12 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -136 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 980 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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 30, 4:04 PM EDT, 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 30, 4:04 PM EDT, 7 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 411 PM EDT WED SEP 30 2015 NCZ003>006-019-020-VAZ043>047-058-059-012015- SURRY-STOKES-ROCKINGHAM-CASWELL-WILKES-YADKIN-HENRY-PITTSYLVANIA- CAMPBELL-APPOMATTOX-BUCKINGHAM-HALIFAX-CHARLOTTE- 411 PM EDT WED SEP 30 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA...NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS THE AREA FROM FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON...WITH 3 TO LOCALLY 5 INCHES OF RAINFALL POSSIBLE FOR AREAS EAST OF THE BLUE RIDGE. FLASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE AS BANDS OF HEAVY MAY PASS REPEATEDLY OVER THE SAME LOCATIONS...ESPECIALLY OVER AREAS WITH SATURATED SOILS FROM RECENT HEAVY RAIN. IN ADDITION TO FLASH FLOODING... RIVER FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. VAZ007-009>014-018>020-022>024-WVZ042>044-507-508-012015- TAZEWELL-SMYTH-BLAND-GILES-WYTHE-PULASKI-MONTGOMERY-CRAIG- ALLEGHANY VA-BATH-ROANOKE-BOTETOURT-ROCKBRIDGE-MERCER-SUMMERS-MONROE- EASTERN GREENBRIER-WESTERN GREENBRIER- 411 PM EDT WED SEP 30 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS THE AREA FROM FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON...WITH 4 TO LOCALLY 7 INCHES OF RAINFALL POSSIBLE FOR AREAS ALONG THE BLUE RIDGE... INCLUDING THE BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY. FLASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE AS BANDS OF HEAVY MAY PASS REPEATEDLY OVER THE SAME LOCATIONS... ESPECIALLY OVER AREAS WITH SATURATED SOILS FROM RECENT HEAVY RAIN. IN ADDITION TO FLASH FLOODING...RIVER FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NCZ001-002-018-VAZ015>017-032>035-012015- ASHE-ALLEGHANY NC-WATAUGA-GRAYSON-CARROLL-FLOYD-PATRICK-FRANKLIN- BEDFORD-AMHERST- 411 PM EDT WED SEP 30 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...CENTRAL VIRGINIA...SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS THE AREA FROM FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON...WITH 2 TO LOCALLY 4 INCHES OF RAINFALL POSSIBLE FOR THE MOUNTAINS. FLASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE AS BANDS OF HEAVY MAY PASS REPEATEDLY OVER THE SAME LOCATIONS...ESPECIALLY OVER AREAS WITH SATURATED SOILS FROM RECENT HEAVY RAIN. IN ADDITION TO FLASH FLOODING...RIVER FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 30, 11:28 AM EDT, 4 hours 43 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 30, 3:57 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | RNK | Charlotte, Halifax | 4 days |
| Sep 30, 7:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Floyd | 53 min |
| Sep 30, 5:08 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RNK | Watauga, Wilkes | 6 hr |
| Sep 30, 5:53 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Watauga, Wilkes | 6 hr |
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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.