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High Wind Watch 1, NWS Blacksburg, VA

January 3, 20209 counties in Virginia; Alleghany County, Ashe County, Watauga County, North Carolina

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this high wind watch at Jan 3, 2020, 3:30 PM EST for 9 counties in Virginia; Alleghany County, Ashe County, Watauga County, North Carolina. It took effect at Jan 4, 2020, 6:00 PM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 3, 2020, 3:30 PM EST (20:30 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 4, 2020, 6:00 PM EST
Expired
Jan 4, 2020, 3:42 AM EST
In force
Issued by
NWS Blacksburg, VA

Counties Alleghany County, NC, Ashe County, NC, Watauga County, NC, Carroll County, VA, City of Galax, VA, City of Roanoke, VA, City of Salem, VA, Floyd County, VA, Franklin County, VA, Grayson County, VA, Patrick County, VA, Roanoke County, VA

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:30 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.

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 Jan 3, 1:53 PM EST, 1 hour 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 3, 1:53 PM EST, 1 hour 37 minutes before
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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.