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Special Weather Statement, NWS Blacksburg, VA

June 24, 2016Greenbrier County, West Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this special weather statement at Jun 24, 2016, 4:08 PM EDT for Greenbrier County, West Virginia. It was in force for 52 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, 4:08 PM EDT (20:08 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2016, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA

County Greenbrier County, WV

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:08 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 188 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: 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

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The text

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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 Jun 24, 3:32 PM EDT, 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 3:32 PM EDT, 36 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 24, 3:46 PM EDT, 22 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
346 PM EDT FRI JUN 24 2016

NCZ001>006-018>020-VAZ007-009>020-022>024-032>035-043>047-058-059-
WVZ042>044-507-508-252000-
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-
346 PM EDT FRI JUN 24 2016

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 STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS COULD OCCUR INTO THIS
EVENING WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL THE MAIN THREATS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 24, 11:32 AM EDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 24, 12:48 PM EDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 24, 4:08 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
408 PM EDT FRI JUN 24 2016

WVZ507-242100-
EASTERN GREENBRIER-
408 PM EDT FRI JUN 24 2016

...SCATTERED LIGHT TO MODERATE SHOWERS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA...

THROUGH 500 PM EDT...SCATTERED LIGHT TO MODERATE SHOWERS WILL
PROGRESS ACROSS MAINLY THE SOUTHEASTERN PART OF GREENBRIER COUNTY.
MOST OF THE SHOWERS WILL PRODUCE LESS THAN ONE TENTH OF AN INCH...
WITH SOME ISOLATED LOCATIONS EXPERIENCING ONE THIRD OF AN INCH. NONE
OF THIS RAIN ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO WORSEN THE FLOOD SITUATION. A
FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 630 PM EDT.

LAT...LON 3776 8026 3774 8026 3772 8025 3768 8033
      3769 8035 3770 8034 3771 8035 3769 8036
      3769 8038 3771 8038 3770 8039 3772 8039
      3769 8046 3770 8047 3769 8052 3772 8062
      3774 8066 3788 8044
TIME...MOT...LOC 2005Z 332DEG 8KT 3783 8043 3772 8061

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
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, 11:32 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Alleghany	58 min
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 Emergency	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, 6:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	RNK	Greenbrier	24 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.