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Special Weather Statement, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this special weather statement at Jun 24, 2016, 11:32 AM EDT for Alleghany County, Virginia; Greenbrier County, West Virginia. It was in force for 58 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
- Jun 24, 2016, 11:32 AM EDT (15:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2016, 12:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
Counties Alleghany County, VA, Greenbrier County, WV
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:30 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, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -318 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 975 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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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 Jun 24, 10:15 AM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 10:15 AM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 24, 11:32 AM EDT, 0 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 23, 8:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Bland, Carroll, Floyd, Giles, Montgomery, Pulaski and 3 more | 48 min |
| Jun 23, 8:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Bland, Smyth, Tazewell | 45 min |
| Jun 23, 8:28 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RNK | Montgomery, Roanoke, City of Radford, City of Roanoke, City of Salem | 6 hr |
| Jun 23, 8:49 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RNK | Bedford | 6 hr |
| Jun 23, 8:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Bland, Grayson, Pulaski, Smyth, Tazewell, Wythe | 39 min |
| Jun 23, 9:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Floyd, Franklin, Pittsylvania | 35 min |
| Jun 23, 9:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Carroll, Grayson, Patrick, Pulaski, Wythe, City of Galax | 61 min |
| Jun 23, 9:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Halifax, Henry, Patrick, Pittsylvania, City of Danville, City of Martinsville | 44 min |
| Jun 23, 9:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Halifax, Pittsylvania, City of Danville | 6 hr |
| Jun 23, 10:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | City of Danville | 55 min |
| Jun 23, 11:12 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RNK | Alleghany, City of Covington | 18 hr |
| Jun 23, 11:54 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RNK | Bath | 6 hr |
| Jun 24, 12:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Alleghany, City of Covington | 57 min |
| Jun 24, 6:36 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RNK | City of Roanoke | 114 min |
| Jun 23, 9:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Rockingham | 30 min |
| Jun 23, 10:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Caswell | 23 min |
| Jun 23, 10:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Surry, Yadkin | 60 min |
| Jun 23, 10:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Watauga, Wilkes | 64 min |
| Jun 23, 9:29 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 6 hr |
| Jun 24, 3:29 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 6 hr |
| Jun 24, 9:28 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 9 hr |
| Jun 24, 12:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Greenbrier | 37 min |
| Jun 24, 4:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Greenbrier | 52 min |
| Jun 24, 6:30 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 24 hr |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Virginia, 2016Special Weather Statements in West Virginia, 2016Every special weather statement in 2016
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.