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Special Weather Statement, NWS Blacksburg, VA

July 16, 2016Bath County, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this special weather statement at Jul 16, 2016, 1:41 PM EDT for Bath County, Virginia. It was in force for 34 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 16, 2016, 1:41 PM EDT (17:41 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 2016, 2:15 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA

County Bath County, VA

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 111 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: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -198 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1346 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 27 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 16, 12:44 PM EDT, 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 12:44 PM EDT, 57 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 16, 4:09 AM EDT, 9 hours 32 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 16, 1:06 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 16, 1:34 PM EDT, 7 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
134 PM EDT SAT JUL 16 2016

WVZ507-508-161815-
EASTERN GREENBRIER-WESTERN GREENBRIER-
134 PM EDT SAT JUL 16 2016

...AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT
CENTRAL GREENBRIER COUNTY...

AT 134 PM EDT...AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER ANJEAN...
MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
RENICK...
FALLING SPRING...
TROUT...
FRANKFORD...
AND MEADOW BLUFF.

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.

LAT...LON 3826 8043 3822 8036 3811 8036 3811 8035
      3788 8036 3790 8067 3813 8063 3827 8044
TIME...MOT...LOC 1734Z 259DEG 28KT 3803 8067

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Special weather statement, Jul 16, 1:41 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
141 PM EDT SAT JUL 16 2016

VAZ020-WVZ507-161815-
BATH-EASTERN GREENBRIER-
141 PM EDT SAT JUL 16 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT
NORTHWESTERN BATH AND EASTERN GREENBRIER COUNTIES...

AT 140 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR NEOLA...MOVING EAST AT
25 MPH. THIS STORM WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF LAKE MOOMAW.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH...PEA SIZE HAIL...AND LIGHTNING ARE
POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HOT SPRINGS...
WARM SPRINGS...
NEOLA...
MOUNTAIN GROVE...
AND BACOVA JUNCTION.

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.

IF YOU ARE ON OR NEAR LAKE MOOMAW...GET OUT OF THE WATER AND MOVE
INDOORS OR INSIDE A VEHICLE. REMEMBER...LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE OUT TO
15 MILES FROM THE PARENT THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...
YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER
NOW. DO NOT BE CAUGHT ON THE WATER IN A THUNDERSTORM.

LAT...LON 3826 7979 3822 7977 3799 7974 3797 8015
      3804 8015 3806 8011 3806 7996 3810 7993
      3811 7994 3813 7995 3815 7992 3818 7992
      3825 7983 3825 7982 3827 7980
TIME...MOT...LOC 1740Z 259DEG 22KT 3803 8008

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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 15, 10:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Patrick	61 min
Jul 16, 2:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Alleghany, City of Covington	64 min
Jul 16, 2:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Bath, Rockbridge, City of Buena Vista, City of Lexington	53 min
Jul 16, 4:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Rockbridge	58 min
Jul 16, 5:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Giles	65 min
Jul 16, 5:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Buckingham	53 min
Jul 16, 5:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Giles, Pulaski, City of Radford	62 min
Jul 16, 5:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Giles, Montgomery, Pulaski, City of Radford	36 min
Jul 16, 5:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Buckingham	54 min
Jul 16, 5:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Smyth	62 min
Jul 16, 6:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Montgomery	67 min
Jul 16, 7:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Franklin	57 min
Jul 16, 7:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Appomattox	50 min
Jul 16, 7:38 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Wythe	112 min
Jul 15, 9:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Wilkes	62 min
Jul 16, 5:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Rockingham	57 min
Jul 16, 6:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Caswell	58 min
Jul 16, 6:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Caswell	55 min
Jul 16, 6:49 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Caswell	3 hr
Jul 16, 1:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Fayette	54 min
Jul 16, 1:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Greenbrier	41 min
Jul 16, 1:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Summers	37 min
Jul 16, 4:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Summers	65 min
Jul 16, 4:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Mercer	65 min

Nearby

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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.