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Winter Storm Warning 1, NWS Blacksburg, VA

January 8, 2019Greenbrier County, West Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this winter storm warning at Jan 8, 2019, 2:18 PM EST for Greenbrier County, West Virginia. It took effect at Jan 8, 2019, 11:00 PM EST. It was in force for 38 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: Jan 8, 2019, 2:18 PM EST (19:18 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 8, 2019, 11:00 PM EST
Expired: Jan 10, 2019, 1:00 PM EST
In force: 38 hr
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA

County Greenbrier County, WV

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:15 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 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 118 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: 1168 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 81 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 237 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 312 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 winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Jan 8, 12:34 PM EST, 1 hour 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 8, 12:34 PM EST, 1 hour 44 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 8, 8:41 AM EST, 5 hours 37 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
Jan 8, 3:57 AM EST	High Wind Watch	RNK	Carroll, Floyd, Grayson, Roanoke, City of Galax, City of Roanoke and 1 more	10 hr
Jan 8, 3:57 AM EST	Wind Advisory	RNK	Alleghany, Amherst, Bath, Bedford, Bland, Botetourt and 14 more	51 hr
Jan 8, 2:07 PM EST	High Wind Warning	RNK	Carroll, Floyd, Grayson, Roanoke, City of Galax, City of Roanoke and 1 more	41 hr
Jan 8, 3:42 AM EST	Winter Storm Watch	RNK	Greenbrier	11 hr
Jan 8, 2:18 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	RNK	Greenbrier, Mercer, Summers	41 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in West Virginia, 2019 Every winter storm warning 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.