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Freeze Warning 8, NWS Blacksburg, VA

May 10, 2020Greenbrier County, West Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this freeze warning at May 10, 2020, 3:04 AM EDT for Greenbrier County, West Virginia. It took effect at May 11, 2020, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 9 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: May 10, 2020, 3:04 AM EDT (07:04 UTC)
In effect from: May 11, 2020, 12:00 AM EDT
Expired: May 11, 2020, 9:15 AM EDT
In force: 9 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 07:08 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 freeze 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 freeze warning went out at May 10, 1:35 AM EDT, 1 hour 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 10, 1:35 AM EDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 9, 9:45 PM EDT, 5 hours 19 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
May 10, 2:14 PM EDT	Freeze Watch	RNK	Alleghany, Bath, Bland, Botetourt, Carroll, Craig and 17 more	13 hr
May 10, 2:14 PM EDT	Wind Advisory	RNK	Carroll, Floyd, Grayson, Roanoke, City of Galax, City of Roanoke and 1 more	19 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in West Virginia, 2020 Every freeze warning in 2020

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.