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Wind Advisory 16, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this wind advisory at Dec 15, 2016, 12:08 PM EST for Grayson County, Virginia; Ashe County, Watauga County, North Carolina. It was in force for 112 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 15, 2016, 12:08 PM EST (17:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 15, 2016, 2:00 PM EST
- In force
- 112 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
Counties Ashe County, NC, Watauga County, NC, Grayson County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1263 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 111 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
481 WWUS71 KRNK 151708 NPWRNK URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 1208 PM EST THU DEC 15 2016 ...GUSTY WINDS WILL GRADUALLY DECREASE THIS AFTERNOON... .WINDS WILL REMAIN GUSTY AS ARCTIC HIGH PRESSURE CONTINUES TO SURGE INTO THE APPALACHIANS AND CENTRAL MID ATLANTIC REGION. CONDITIONS WILL REMAIN QUITE GUSTY THROUGH EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...ESPECIALLY AT THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS...BEFORE WINDS GRADUALLY SUBSIDE LATER IN THE DAY. NCZ001-018-VAZ015-151900- /O.EXP.KRNK.WI.Y.0015.000000T0000Z-161215T1700Z/ /O.NEW.KRNK.WI.Y.0016.161215T1708Z-161215T1900Z/ ASHE-WATAUGA-GRAYSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WEST JEFFERSON...BOONE...INDEPENDENCE... WHITETOP...TROUTDALE...VOLNEY 1208 PM EST THU DEC 15 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... * LOCATIONS...THE MOUNTAINS OF NORTH CAROLINA THROUGH THE GRAYSON HIGHLANDS IN VIRGINIA...MAINLY ABOVE 3500 FEET. * HAZARDS...STRONG GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS. * WINDS...NORTHWEST 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH AT TIMES...BEFORE GRADUALLY SUBSIDING * TIMING...THROUGH EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. * IMPACTS...SMALL TREE LIMBS MAY BE BLOWN DOWN. WIND CHILLS WILL BE 5 ABOVE TO 5 BELOW ZERO THIS MORNING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BE 31 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS WILL RANGE BETWEEN 46 AND 57 MPH. WINDS OF THESE MAGNITUDES MAY CAUSE MINOR PROPERTY DAMAGE WITHOUT EXTRA PRECAUTIONS. MOTORISTS IN HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD USE EXTRA CAUTION UNTIL THE WINDS SUBSIDE. && $$ NCZ002-VAZ010>014-016>020-022>024-151815- /O.EXP.KRNK.WI.Y.0015.000000T0000Z-161215T1700Z/ ALLEGHANY NC-BLAND-GILES-WYTHE-PULASKI-MONTGOMERY-CARROLL-FLOYD- CRAIG-ALLEGHANY VA-BATH-ROANOKE-BOTETOURT-ROCKBRIDGE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SPARTA...BLAND...PEARISBURG... WYTHEVILLE...RADFORD...PULASKI...BLACKSBURG...GALAX...FLOYD... NEW CASTLE...CLIFTON FORGE...COVINGTON...HOT SPRINGS...ROANOKE... SALEM...FINCASTLE...LEXINGTON...BUENA VISTA 1208 PM EST THU DEC 15 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... WHILE WINDS WILL REMAIN QUITE GUSTY THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON...WIND SPEEDS WILL CONTINUE TO DECREASE AND ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED TO EXCEED 45MPH . $$ MBS
1 follow-up statement
148 WWUS71 KRNK 151903 NPWRNK URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 203 PM EST THU DEC 15 2016 NCZ001-018-VAZ015-152015- /O.EXP.KRNK.WI.Y.0016.000000T0000Z-161215T1900Z/ ASHE-WATAUGA-GRAYSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WEST JEFFERSON...BOONE...INDEPENDENCE... WHITETOP...TROUTDALE...VOLNEY 203 PM EST THU DEC 15 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... WHILE WINDS WILL REMAIN GUSTY THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON...WIND SPEEDS WILL CONTINUE TO DECREASE AND ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED TO EXCEED 45MPH . $$ MBS
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.