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Areal Flood Warning 2, NWS Blacksburg, VA

March 31, 2017Watauga County, North Carolina

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this areal flood warning at Mar 31, 2017, 5:53 AM EDT for Watauga County, North Carolina. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 31, 2017, 5:53 AM EDT (09:53 UTC)
Expired: Mar 31, 2017, 11:45 AM EDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Watauga County, NC

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal flood warning 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 areal flood warning went out at Mar 31, 5:18 AM EDT, 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 31, 5:18 AM EDT, 35 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 31, 4:13 AM EDT, 1 hour 40 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
Mar 31, 4:13 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Carroll, City of Galax, City of Radford	47 min
Mar 31, 6:52 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Carroll, Floyd, Patrick, City of Galax	53 min
Mar 31, 8:35 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford, Botetourt, Campbell, Halifax and 4 more	55 min
Mar 31, 9:27 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Appomattox, Buckingham, Charlotte, Halifax	48 min
Mar 31, 9:31 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	City of Danville	44 min
Mar 31, 1:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Henry	27 min
Mar 31, 1:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Henry, Patrick, City of Martinsville	30 min
Mar 31, 1:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Franklin	32 min
Mar 31, 2:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Henry, Pittsylvania, City of Martinsville	64 min
Mar 31, 3:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Charlotte, Halifax, City of Danville	53 min
Mar 31, 3:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Charlotte, Halifax	45 min
Mar 31, 4:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Halifax	64 min
Mar 31, 3:22 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Watauga	6 hr
Mar 31, 3:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Greenbrier	28 min
Mar 31, 3:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Greenbrier	34 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.