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Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this red flag warning at Mar 19, 2024, 3:02 PM EDT for 22 counties in Virginia; Caswell County, Rockingham County, Stokes County, North Carolina. It took effect at Mar 20, 2024, 10:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 10 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
- Mar 19, 2024, 3:02 PM EDT (19:02 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 20, 2024, 10:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Mar 20, 2024, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
All 25 counties
Caswell County, NC, Rockingham County, NC, Stokes County, NC, Alleghany County, VA, Amherst County, VA, Appomattox County, VA, Bath 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, Craig County, VA, Franklin County, VA, Halifax County, VA, Henry County, VA, Patrick County, VA, Pittsylvania County, VA, Roanoke County, VA, Rockbridge County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:05 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 red flag 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 red flag warning went out at Mar 19, 12:42 PM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 19, 12:42 PM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.