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Special Weather Statement, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this special weather statement at Aug 19, 2024, 2:21 PM EDT for Stokes County, North Carolina. It was in force for 24 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
- Aug 19, 2024, 2:21 PM EDT (18:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2024, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Hail
- 0.25 in
- Wind
- 40
County Stokes County, NC
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:25 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 36 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
- 216 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1136 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>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.
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 18, 4:07 PM EDT, 22 hours 14 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Blacksburg VA 407 PM EDT Sun Aug 18 2024 NCZ001>003-018-019-VAZ007-009>020-022>024-032>035-WVZ042>044-507-508- 192015- Ashe-Alleghany NC-Surry-Watauga-Wilkes-Tazewell-Smyth-Bland-Giles- Wythe-Pulaski-Montgomery-Grayson-Carroll-Floyd-Craig-Alleghany VA- Bath-Roanoke-Botetourt-Rockbridge-Patrick-Franklin-Bedford-Amherst- Mercer-Summers-Monroe-Eastern Greenbrier-Western Greenbrier- 407 PM EDT Sun Aug 18 2024 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for north central North Carolina, northwest North Carolina, central Virginia, south central Virginia, southwest Virginia, west central Virginia and southeast West Virginia. .DAY ONE...Tonight. The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. NCZ004>006-020-VAZ043>047-058-059-192015- Stokes-Rockingham-Caswell-Yadkin-Henry-Pittsylvania-Campbell- Appomattox-Buckingham-Halifax-Charlotte- 407 PM EDT Sun Aug 18 2024 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 635 IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS EVENING... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for north central North Carolina, northwest North Carolina, central Virginia and south central Virginia. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Severe Thunderstorm Watch. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. A few storms on Monday could become severe. The main threat is damaging wind. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. PW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 2:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | City of Danville | 30 min |
| Aug 19, 3:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | City of Danville | 46 min |
| Aug 19, 4:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Campbell | 34 min |
| Aug 19, 5:35 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RNK | Campbell | 2 hr |
| Aug 19, 7:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Buckingham | 43 min |
| Aug 19, 2:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Surry | 23 min |
| Aug 19, 2:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Yadkin | 33 min |
| Aug 19, 2:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Rockingham | 35 min |
| Aug 19, 3:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Stokes | 27 min |
| Aug 19, 3:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Caswell | 47 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in North Carolina, 2024Every special weather statement in 2024
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.