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Special Weather Statement, NWS Blacksburg, VA

September 22, 2021City of Martinsville, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this special weather statement at Sep 22, 2021, 1:35 PM EDT for City of Martinsville, Virginia. It was in force for 25 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 22, 2021, 1:35 PM EDT (17:35 UTC)
Expired: Sep 22, 2021, 2:00 PM EDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 40

County City of Martinsville, VA

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:38 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 64 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: 266 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 555 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 97 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 119 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.6

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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 22, 9:46 AM EDT, 3 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 22, 9:46 AM EDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 22, 4:05 AM EDT, 9 hours 30 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 22, 11:28 AM EDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 22, 11:39 AM EDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 22, 12:14 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 22, 1:35 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
Sep 21, 8:07 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Floyd, Franklin	3 hr
Sep 21, 9:00 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Floyd, Franklin, Montgomery, Roanoke, City of Roanoke, City of Salem	3 hr
Sep 21, 9:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Carroll, Floyd, Patrick	3 hr
Sep 21, 10:10 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Carroll, Floyd, Patrick	6 hr
Sep 21, 10:19 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Floyd, Patrick	3 hr
Sep 21, 11:25 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Floyd, Franklin	3 hr
Sep 21, 11:56 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Carroll, Floyd, Montgomery, Pulaski, City of Radford	6 hr
Sep 22, 12:20 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Floyd, Patrick	4 hr
Sep 22, 1:00 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Franklin, Roanoke, City of Roanoke, City of Salem	3 hr
Sep 22, 1:12 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Montgomery	6 hr
Sep 22, 2:27 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Craig, Giles	6 hr
Sep 22, 5:03 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Floyd, Franklin, Henry, Patrick	3 hr
Sep 22, 11:00 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Bedford, Botetourt, Floyd, Franklin, Henry, Patrick and 7 more	11 hr
Sep 22, 2:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Amherst	28 min
Sep 22, 2:52 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Craig, Giles, Montgomery, Pulaski, City of Radford	2 hr
Sep 22, 3:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Floyd, Montgomery	22 min
Sep 22, 4:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Patrick	29 min
Sep 22, 4:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Patrick	40 min
Sep 22, 4:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Patrick	33 min
Sep 22, 4:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Franklin	40 min
Sep 22, 4:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Rockbridge, City of Buena Vista, City of Lexington	28 min
Sep 22, 4:53 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Bedford, Franklin, Patrick, Roanoke	4 hr
Sep 22, 5:32 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Bedford, Botetourt, Rockbridge, City of Buena Vista, City of Lexington	3 hr
Sep 22, 7:10 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	RNK	Rockbridge	2 hr
Sep 22, 7:19 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Amherst	3 hr
Sep 22, 1:41 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	RNK	Surry	6 hr
Sep 22, 3:55 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Stokes	3 hr
Sep 22, 3:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Stokes	27 min
Sep 22, 4:08 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Stokes, Surry	2 hr
Sep 22, 4:59 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Stokes, Surry, Yadkin	84 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.