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Special Weather Statement, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this special weather statement at Dec 11, 2021, 1:09 PM EST for Craig County, Giles County, Virginia; Monroe County, West Virginia. It was in force for 36 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
- Dec 11, 2021, 1:09 PM EST (18:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 11, 2021, 1:45 PM EST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Hail
- 0.00 in
- Wind
- 40
Counties Craig County, VA, Giles County, VA, Monroe County, WV
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 72 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 856 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 267 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 286 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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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 Dec 11, 12:35 PM EST, 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 11, 12:35 PM EST, 34 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Blacksburg VA 306 AM EST Sat Dec 11 2021 NCZ001-018-VAZ007-009-010-012-015-120815- Ashe-Watauga-Tazewell-Smyth-Bland-Wythe-Grayson- 306 AM EST Sat Dec 11 2021 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northwest North Carolina and southwest Virginia. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Wind Advisory. In addition, damaging winds may occur in association with a line of showers and few thunderstorms this afternoon. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. 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. VAZ011-014-017>020-022>024-033>035-120815- Giles-Montgomery-Floyd-Craig-Alleghany VA-Bath-Roanoke-Botetourt- Rockbridge-Franklin-Bedford-Amherst- 306 AM EST Sat Dec 11 2021 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 AM EST SUNDAY... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Virginia, south central Virginia, southwest Virginia and west central Virginia. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Wind Advisory. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. NCZ002>006-019-020-VAZ013-016-032-043>047-058-059-120815- Alleghany NC-Surry-Stokes-Rockingham-Caswell-Wilkes-Yadkin-Pulaski- Carroll-Patrick-Henry-Pittsylvania-Campbell-Appomattox-Buckingham- Halifax-Charlotte- 306 AM EST Sat Dec 11 2021 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for north central North Carolina, northwest North Carolina, central Virginia, south central Virginia and southwest Virginia. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. A line of showers and a few thunderstorms could bring damaging wind gusts this afternoon into early evening. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. 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. WVZ042>044-507-508-120815- Mercer-Summers-Monroe-Eastern Greenbrier-Western Greenbrier- 306 AM EST Sat Dec 11 2021 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for southeast West Virginia. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. There is a low probability for widespread hazardous weather. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Dec 11, 10:43 AM EST, 2 hours 26 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 11, 3:02 AM EST | Wind Advisory | RNK | Alleghany, Amherst, Bath, Bedford, Bland, Botetourt and 21 more | 25 hr |
| Dec 11, 12:32 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Grayson, Smyth, Wythe, City of Galax | 43 min |
| Dec 11, 12:46 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Bland, Pulaski, City of Radford | 44 min |
| Dec 11, 12:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Carroll, Floyd, Grayson, Pulaski, Wythe, City of Galax | 51 min |
| Dec 11, 1:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Bland, Giles, Montgomery, Pulaski, Wythe, City of Radford | 40 min |
| Dec 11, 3:33 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Pittsylvania, City of Martinsville | 27 min |
| Dec 11, 4:06 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Appomattox, Campbell, Pittsylvania, City of Danville | 24 min |
| Dec 11, 4:35 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Appomattox, Charlotte, Halifax, Pittsylvania, City of Danville | 25 min |
| Dec 11, 5:00 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Charlotte, Halifax, City of Danville | 30 min |
| Dec 11, 5:30 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Charlotte, Halifax, City of Danville | 30 min |
| Dec 11, 12:35 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Alleghany, Ashe, Watauga | 40 min |
| Dec 11, 2:36 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Surry | 39 min |
| Dec 11, 3:00 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Wilkes | 45 min |
| Dec 11, 3:45 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Yadkin | 30 min |
| Dec 11, 3:57 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Rockingham, Stokes | 33 min |
| Dec 11, 4:31 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Rockingham, Stokes | 29 min |
| Dec 11, 6:01 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Caswell | 29 min |
| Dec 11, 10:43 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Summers | 47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.