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Special Weather Statement, NWS Blacksburg, VA

September 8, 2021Charlotte County, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this special weather statement at Sep 8, 2021, 11:49 AM EDT for Charlotte County, Virginia. It was in force for 56 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Sep 8, 2021, 11:49 AM EDT (15:49 UTC)
Expired: Sep 8, 2021, 12:45 PM EDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 40

County Charlotte County, VA

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 90 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: 216 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 875 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 37 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 Sep 8, 10:05 AM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 8, 10:05 AM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 8, 10:22 AM EDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Blacksburg VA
1022 AM EDT Wed Sep 8 2021

NCZ001-002-018-VAZ007-009>016-018>020-022>024-WVZ042>044-507-508-
091430-
Ashe-Alleghany NC-Watauga-Tazewell-Smyth-Bland-Giles-Wythe-Pulaski-
Montgomery-Grayson-Carroll-Craig-Alleghany VA-Bath-Roanoke-Botetourt-
Rockbridge-Mercer-Summers-Monroe-Eastern Greenbrier-
Western Greenbrier-
1022 AM EDT Wed Sep 8 2021

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northwest North Carolina,
southwest Virginia, west central Virginia and southeast West
Virginia.

.DAY ONE...Today and tonight.

Isolated to scattered thunderstorms are expected this afternoon and
early evening. A few of these storms may contain damaging winds.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday.

Hazardous weather is not expected at this time.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation may be needed. Reports should be submitted by
phone by calling 1-866-215-4324, social media, by email at
rnk.skywarn@noaa.gov or online at www.weather.gov/rnk.

NCZ003>005-019-020-VAZ017-032>035-043>045-091430-
Surry-Stokes-Rockingham-Wilkes-Yadkin-Floyd-Patrick-Franklin-Bedford-
Amherst-Henry-Pittsylvania-Campbell-
1022 AM EDT Wed Sep 8 2021

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for north central North Carolina,
northwest North Carolina, central Virginia, south central Virginia,
southwest Virginia and west central Virginia.

.DAY ONE...Today and tonight.

Isolated to scattered thunderstorms are expected this afternoon and
early evening. A few of these storms may contain damaging winds. Hail
may also accompany one or two of the storms.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday.

Hazardous weather is not expected at this time.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation may be needed. Reports should be submitted by
phone by calling 1-866-215-4324, social media, by email at
rnk.skywarn@noaa.gov or online at www.weather.gov/rnk.

NCZ006-VAZ046-047-058-059-091430-
Caswell-Appomattox-Buckingham-Halifax-Charlotte-
1022 AM EDT Wed Sep 8 2021

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for north central North Carolina,
central Virginia and south central Virginia.

.DAY ONE...Today and tonight.

Isolated to scattered thunderstorms are expected this afternoon and
early evening. A few of these storms may contain damaging winds. Hail
may also accompany one or two of the storms. An isolated tornado is
also possible.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday.

Hazardous weather is not expected at this time.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation may be needed. Reports should be submitted by
phone by calling 1-866-215-4324, social media, by email at
rnk.skywarn@noaa.gov or online at www.weather.gov/rnk.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 8, 10:00 AM EDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 8, 10:48 AM EDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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Special weather statement, Sep 8, 11:07 AM EDT, 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 8, 11:49 AM 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
Sep 8, 10:48 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	City of Danville	42 min
Sep 8, 1:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Carroll	54 min
Sep 8, 1:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Carroll	37 min
Sep 8, 1:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Carroll	58 min
Sep 8, 2:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Floyd	43 min
Sep 8, 2:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Patrick	26 min
Sep 8, 2:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Floyd	23 min
Sep 8, 2:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Floyd, Franklin	30 min
Sep 8, 2:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Bedford	39 min
Sep 8, 3:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Franklin	45 min
Sep 8, 3:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Bedford	41 min
Sep 8, 3:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Bedford, Botetourt, Rockbridge	36 min
Sep 8, 4:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	City of Buena Vista	35 min
Sep 8, 10:00 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Caswell, Rockingham, Stokes	60 min
Sep 8, 11:07 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Person	38 min
Sep 8, 12:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Alleghany	56 min
Sep 8, 12:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Wilkes	40 min
Sep 8, 1:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Surry	63 min
Sep 8, 1:47 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RNK	Surry	28 min
Sep 8, 2:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Surry, Wilkes	29 min
Sep 8, 2:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Wilkes	56 min
Sep 8, 2:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Surry	51 min
Sep 8, 3:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Wilkes	56 min
Sep 8, 3:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Surry, Yadkin	33 min
Sep 8, 4:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Wilkes	27 min
Sep 8, 6:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Yadkin	24 min
Sep 8, 6:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Forsyth	26 min
Sep 8, 7:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Stokes	29 min
Sep 8, 7:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Stokes	35 min
Sep 8, 6:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Greenbrier	32 min

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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.