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Wind Advisory 14, NWS Blacksburg, VA

April 14, 201911 counties in Virginia; Alleghany County, Ashe County, Watauga County, North Carolina; 4 counties in West Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this wind advisory at Apr 14, 2019, 3:50 AM EDT for 11 counties in Virginia; Alleghany County, Ashe County, Watauga County, North Carolina; 4 counties in West Virginia. It took effect at Apr 14, 2019, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 14, 2019, 3:50 AM EDT (07:50 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 14, 2019, 12:00 PM EDT
Expired: Apr 14, 2019, 6:55 PM EDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA

Counties Alleghany County, NC, Ashe County, NC, Watauga County, NC, Bland County, VA, Carroll County, VA, City of Galax, VA, City of Radford, VA, Floyd County, VA, Giles County, VA, Grayson County, VA, Pulaski County, VA, Smyth County, VA, Tazewell County, VA, Wythe County, VA, Greenbrier County, WV, Mercer County, WV, Monroe County, WV, Summers County, WV

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:52 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 134 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1003 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 309 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Apr 14, 1:50 AM EDT, 2 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 14, 1:50 AM EDT, 2 hours 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
Apr 14, 12:10 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RNK	Patrick	35 min
Apr 14, 12:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Henry	21 min
Apr 14, 1:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Franklin	15 min
Apr 14, 1:09 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RNK	Franklin	25 min
Apr 14, 1:51 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RNK	Carroll, Patrick	24 min
Apr 14, 2:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Patrick	27 min
Apr 14, 2:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Floyd	27 min
Apr 14, 3:13 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RNK	Patrick	32 min
Apr 14, 3:17 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Carroll, Floyd, Patrick	5 hr
Apr 14, 3:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Patrick	27 min
Apr 14, 4:52 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RNK	Carroll	43 min
Apr 14, 5:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RNK	Carroll, Floyd, Patrick	37 min
Apr 14, 5:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Amherst	27 min
Apr 14, 5:37 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RNK	Amherst	38 min
Apr 14, 5:40 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RNK	Amherst, Bedford	36 min
Apr 14, 6:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Amherst	30 min
Apr 14, 6:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Franklin, Henry, Patrick, City of Martinsville	57 min
Apr 14, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Amherst, Bedford, Botetourt, Franklin, Roanoke, Rockbridge and 4 more	61 min
Apr 14, 6:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RNK	Bedford, Botetourt	29 min
Apr 14, 7:01 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Amherst, Bedford, Botetourt, Rockbridge, City of Buena Vista, City of Lexington	87 min
Apr 14, 7:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Tazewell	40 min
Apr 14, 7:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Amherst, Bedford, City of Lynchburg	51 min
Apr 14, 7:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Campbell	34 min
Apr 14, 7:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Pittsylvania	33 min
Apr 14, 7:49 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RNK	Franklin, Henry, City of Martinsville	26 min
Apr 14, 11:17 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	RNK	Yadkin	28 min
Apr 14, 11:40 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	RNK	Stokes, Surry, Yadkin	35 min
Apr 14, 1:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Surry	32 min
Apr 14, 2:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RNK	Surry, Yadkin	29 min
Apr 14, 4:23 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RNK	Wilkes	37 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.