Alert archive / Virginia / Freeze Warnings in 2023
Freeze Warning 9, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this freeze warning at Nov 1, 2023, 4:51 AM EDT for 18 counties in Virginia; 6 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Nov 2, 2023, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 9 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
- Nov 1, 2023, 4:51 AM EDT (08:51 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 2, 2023, 12:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Nov 2, 2023, 9:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
All 24 counties
Caswell County, NC, Rockingham County, NC, Stokes County, NC, Surry County, NC, Wilkes County, NC, Yadkin County, NC, Amherst County, VA, Appomattox County, VA, Bedford County, VA, Botetourt County, VA, Buckingham County, VA, Campbell County, VA, Charlotte County, VA, City of Danville, VA, City of Lynchburg, VA, City of Martinsville, VA, City of Roanoke, VA, City of Salem, VA, Franklin County, VA, Halifax County, VA, Henry County, VA, Patrick County, VA, Pittsylvania County, VA, Roanoke County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 302 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
- 1539 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 90 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Nov 1, 4:51 AM EDT, 0 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 1, 4:51 AM EDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 31, 2:11 PM EDT, 14 hours 40 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Blacksburg VA 211 PM EDT Tue Oct 31 2023 NCZ003>006-019-020-VAZ022-023-032>035-043>047-058-059-011000- Surry-Stokes-Rockingham-Caswell-Wilkes-Yadkin-Roanoke-Botetourt- Patrick-Franklin-Bedford-Amherst-Henry-Pittsylvania-Campbell- Appomattox-Buckingham-Halifax-Charlotte- 211 PM EDT Tue Oct 31 2023 ...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 10 AM EDT WEDNESDAY... 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...This afternoon and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Freeze Warning. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Freeze Warning. A Hard Freeze is expected Wednesday night and early Thursday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. VAZ020-024-WVZ042>044-507-508-011000- Bath-Rockbridge-Mercer-Summers-Monroe-Eastern Greenbrier- Western Greenbrier- 211 PM EDT Tue Oct 31 2023 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for west central Virginia and southeast West Virginia. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Wind chills will be in the teens and single digits late tonight into Wednesday morning at the higher elevations. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. Aside from the cold, the probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. NCZ001-002-018-VAZ007-009>019-011000- Ashe-Alleghany NC-Watauga-Tazewell-Smyth-Bland-Giles-Wythe-Pulaski- Montgomery-Grayson-Carroll-Floyd-Craig-Alleghany VA- 211 PM EDT Tue Oct 31 2023 ...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 10 AM EDT WEDNESDAY... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northwest North Carolina, southwest Virginia and west central Virginia. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Freeze Warning. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Freeze Warning. A Hard Freeze is expected Wednesday night into early Thursday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
Nearby
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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.