Alert archive / Virginia / High Wind Watches in 2019
High Wind Watch 4, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this high wind watch at Nov 26, 2019, 2:44 PM EST for 23 counties in Virginia; 5 counties in North Carolina; Greenbrier County, West Virginia. It took effect at Nov 27, 2019, 12:00 PM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 26, 2019, 2:44 PM EST (19:44 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 27, 2019, 12:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Nov 27, 2019, 4:38 AM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
All 29 counties
Alleghany County, NC, Ashe County, NC, Surry County, NC, Watauga County, NC, Wilkes County, NC, Alleghany County, VA, Amherst County, VA, Bath County, VA, Bedford County, VA, Botetourt County, VA, Carroll County, VA, City of Buena Vista, VA, City of Covington, VA, City of Galax, VA, City of Lexington, VA, City of Radford, VA, City of Roanoke, VA, City of Salem, VA, Craig County, VA, Floyd County, VA, Franklin County, VA, Grayson County, VA, Montgomery County, VA, Patrick County, VA, Pulaski County, VA, Roanoke County, VA, Rockbridge County, VA, Wythe County, VA, Greenbrier County, WV
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 1759 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Nov 26, 12:38 PM EST, 2 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 26, 12:38 PM EST, 2 hours 6 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 26, 2:40 PM EST, 4 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Blacksburg VA 240 PM EST Tue Nov 26 2019 NCZ001>003-018-019-VAZ012>020-022>024-032>035-WVZ507-508-271945- Ashe-Alleghany NC-Surry-Watauga-Wilkes-Wythe-Pulaski-Montgomery- Grayson-Carroll-Floyd-Craig-Alleghany VA-Bath-Roanoke-Botetourt- Rockbridge-Patrick-Franklin-Bedford-Amherst-Eastern Greenbrier- Western Greenbrier- 240 PM EST Tue Nov 26 2019 ...HIGH WIND WATCH IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH THURSDAY AFTERNOON... 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. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. High Wind Watch. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. NCZ004>006-020-VAZ043>047-058-059-271945- Stokes-Rockingham-Caswell-Yadkin-Henry-Pittsylvania-Campbell- Appomattox-Buckingham-Halifax-Charlotte- 240 PM EST Tue Nov 26 2019 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for north central North Carolina, northwest North Carolina, central Virginia and south central Virginia. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. West to northwest winds could gust over 45 mph Wednesday evening into Thanksgiving morning. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. VAZ007-009>011-WVZ042>044-271945- Tazewell-Smyth-Bland-Giles-Mercer-Summers-Monroe- 240 PM EST Tue Nov 26 2019 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON WEDNESDAY TO 4 PM EST THURSDAY... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for southwest Virginia and southeast West Virginia. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Wind Advisory. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 26, 2:44 PM EST | Wind Advisory | RNK | Alleghany, Appomattox, Bedford, Bland, Campbell, Craig and 11 more | 44 hr |
Nearby
High Wind Watches in Virginia, 2019High Wind Watches in North Carolina, 2019High Wind Watches in West Virginia, 2019Every high wind watch in 2019
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.