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Freeze Warning 4, NWS Blacksburg, VA

May 2, 2023Greenbrier County, West Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this freeze warning at May 2, 2023, 4:41 AM EDT for Greenbrier County, West Virginia. It took effect at May 2, 2023, 8:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 14 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 2, 2023, 4:41 AM EDT (08:41 UTC)
In effect from: May 2, 2023, 8:00 PM EDT
Expired: May 3, 2023, 10:06 AM EDT
In force: 14 hr
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA

County Greenbrier County, WV

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this freeze warning 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 freeze warning went out at May 1, 7:29 PM EDT, 9 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 1, 7:29 PM EDT, 9 hours 12 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 1, 2:55 PM EDT, 13 hours 46 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 2, 4:41 AM EDT	Winter Weather Advisory	RNK	Greenbrier	29 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in West Virginia, 2023 Every freeze warning in 2023

Sources

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.