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Special Weather Statement, NWS Blacksburg, VA

May 25, 2021Pulaski County, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this special weather statement at May 25, 2021, 1:33 PM EDT for Pulaski County, Virginia. It was in force for 42 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

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The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 25, 2021, 1:33 PM EDT (17:33 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2021, 2:15 PM EDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA

County Pulaski County, VA

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 121 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: 66 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 610 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at May 25, 10:52 AM EDT, 2 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 10:52 AM EDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 25, 12:38 PM EDT, 55 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Blacksburg VA
1238 PM EDT Tue May 25 2021

NCZ001>006-018>020-VAZ007-009>020-022>024-032>035-043>047-058-059-
WVZ042>044-507-508-261645-
Ashe-Alleghany NC-Surry-Stokes-Rockingham-Caswell-Watauga-Wilkes-
Yadkin-Tazewell-Smyth-Bland-Giles-Wythe-Pulaski-Montgomery-Grayson-
Carroll-Floyd-Craig-Alleghany VA-Bath-Roanoke-Botetourt-Rockbridge-
Patrick-Franklin-Bedford-Amherst-Henry-Pittsylvania-Campbell-
Appomattox-Buckingham-Halifax-Charlotte-Mercer-Summers-Monroe-
Eastern Greenbrier-Western Greenbrier-
1238 PM EDT Tue May 25 2021

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.

The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday.

The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not expected at this time.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 25, 12:43 PM EDT, 50 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 25, 1:33 PM EDT, 0 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 24, 8:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	City of Lynchburg	49 min
May 24, 9:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Floyd	33 min
May 24, 10:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Franklin	35 min
May 25, 12:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Wythe	47 min
May 25, 1:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Grayson	48 min
May 25, 2:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Giles	42 min
May 25, 2:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Montgomery, City of Radford	47 min
May 25, 2:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	City of Galax	41 min
May 25, 2:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Craig	46 min
May 25, 3:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Montgomery, Roanoke	25 min
May 25, 3:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Alleghany, City of Covington	43 min
May 25, 3:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Craig	45 min
May 25, 4:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Bath	42 min
May 25, 4:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Bath	41 min
May 25, 4:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	City of Galax	49 min
May 25, 4:56 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Carroll, Grayson, City of Galax	109 min
May 25, 6:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Patrick	37 min
May 25, 7:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Patrick	48 min
May 25, 5:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Wilkes	57 min
May 25, 6:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Wilkes	28 min
May 25, 7:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Surry	29 min
May 25, 3:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Monroe	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.