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Special Weather Statement, NWS Blacksburg, VA

July 6, 2016Monroe County, West Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this special weather statement at Jul 6, 2016, 10:21 PM EDT for Monroe County, West Virginia. 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: Jul 6, 2016, 10:21 PM EDT (02:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 2016, 11:15 PM EDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA

County Monroe County, WV

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 107 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: 292 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1529 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 25 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 Jul 6, 9:44 PM EDT, 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 9:44 PM EDT, 37 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 6, 9:49 PM EDT, 32 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 6, 4:38 PM EDT, 5 hours 43 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
438 PM EDT WED JUL 6 2016

VAZ046-062145-
APPOMATTOX-
438 PM EDT WED JUL 6 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT APPOMATTOX COUNTY...

AT 438 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER SPOUT SPRING...MOVING
EAST AT 20 MPH.

OCCASIONAL CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE
EXPECTED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORMS. WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH ARE
POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
APPOMATTOX...
OAKVILLE...
STONEWALL...
HIXBURG...
AND APPOMATTOX NATIONAL HISTORIC PARK.

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY CAUSE
LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

LAT...LON 3734 7860 3732 7863 3729 7865 3730 7895
      3734 7897 3744 7899 3750 7875 3743 7868
      3742 7864 3739 7864 3738 7863 3740 7859
TIME...MOT...LOC 2038Z 261DEG 16KT 3738 7889

RAB

Special weather statement, Jul 6, 5:48 PM EDT, 4 hours 33 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
548 PM EDT WED JUL 6 2016

VAZ007-062245-
TAZEWELL-
548 PM EDT WED JUL 6 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT TAZEWELL COUNTY THROUGH 645
PM EDT...

AT 547 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER CLIFFIELD...MOVING
EAST AT 25 MPH.

OCCASIONAL CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE
EXPECTED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH ARE
POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
TAZEWELL...
CEDAR BLUFF...
BURKES GARDEN...
ASBERRYS...
AND CLIFFIELD.

VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY
CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

LAT...LON 3719 8175 3716 8132 3715 8133 3714 8132
      3713 8127 3711 8126 3709 8127 3707 8133
      3705 8138 3706 8140 3704 8146 3701 8144
      3699 8148 3700 8148 3702 8147 3700 8154
      3707 8178
TIME...MOT...LOC 2147Z 283DEG 21KT 3712 8167

RAB

Special weather statement, Jul 6, 8:24 PM EDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
824 PM EDT WED JUL 6 2016

VAZ007-070130-
TAZEWELL-
824 PM EDT WED JUL 6 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHERN TAZEWELL COUNTY
THROUGH 830 PM EDT...

AT 823 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST NORTHWEST OF JEWELL
RIDGE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

FREQUENT CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE
EXPECTED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH AND PEA
SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
TAZEWELL...
BOISSEVAIN...
JEWELL RIDGE...
GLEN BURKE...
AND AMONATE.

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY CAUSE
LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 3716 8187 3717 8187 3720 8176 3724 8174
      3724 8172 3720 8168 3721 8156 3724 8151
      3726 8150 3725 8148 3727 8145 3727 8142
      3731 8140 3732 8137 3734 8136 3714 8133
      3712 8189 3714 8190
TIME...MOT...LOC 0023Z 260DEG 26KT 3722 8178

RAB

Special weather statement, Jul 6, 9:08 PM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 6, 10:21 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 6, 8:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Tazewell	66 min
Jul 6, 8:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Tazewell	61 min
Jul 7, 3:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Appomattox	56 min
Jul 7, 4:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Charlotte	59 min
Jul 6, 9:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Ashe, Watauga	52 min
Jul 6, 10:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Wilkes	40 min
Jul 6, 10:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Yadkin	66 min
Jul 7, 5:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Rockingham, Yadkin	49 min
Jul 7, 6:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Caswell	42 min
Jul 6, 11:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Greenbrier	63 min

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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.