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Special Weather Statement, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this special weather statement at Sep 8, 2021, 7:40 PM EDT for Stokes County, North Carolina. It was in force for 35 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, 7:40 PM EDT (23:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 2021, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Hail
- 0.25 in
- Wind
- 40
County Stokes County, NC
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NWS Blacksburg, VA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Sep 8, 2:27 PM EDT, 5 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 8, 2:27 PM EDT, 5 hours 13 minutes before
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Local storm report, Sep 8, 6:04 PM EDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Sep 8, 10:48 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | City of Danville | 42 min |
| Sep 8, 11:49 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Charlotte | 56 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, 6:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Greenbrier | 32 min |
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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.