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Special Weather Statement, NWS Blacksburg, VA

May 14, 2025Buckingham County, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this special weather statement at May 14, 2025, 4:21 PM EDT for Buckingham County, Virginia. It was in force for 39 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: May 14, 2025, 4:21 PM EDT (20:21 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 2025, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 30

County Buckingham County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 99 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 25 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 578 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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.

NWS Blacksburg, VA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at May 14, 2:52 PM EDT, 1 hour 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 14, 2:52 PM EDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 14, 11:11 AM EDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook...UPDATED
National Weather Service Blacksburg VA
Issued by National Weather Service Raleigh NC
1111 AM EDT Wed May 14 2025

VAZ011-014-017>020-022>024-032>034-WVZ043-044-507-508-151030-
Giles-Montgomery-Floyd-Craig-Alleghany VA-Bath-Roanoke-Botetourt-
Rockbridge-Patrick-Franklin-Bedford-Summers-Monroe-
Eastern Greenbrier-Western Greenbrier-
1111 AM EDT Wed May 14 2025

...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS EVENING...

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for south central Virginia,
southwest Virginia, west central Virginia and southeast West
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.

   Flood Watch.

Excessive rainfall from scattered thunderstorms may result in
localized flash flooding Wednesday, that may cause creeks and
streams to rapidly rise out of their banks and threaten nearby roads
and bridges.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday.

There is a low probability for widespread hazardous weather.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Weather spotters are requested to report flooding and any resulting
damage.

NCZ001-002-018-VAZ007-009-010-012-013-015-016-WVZ042-151030-
Ashe-Alleghany NC-Watauga-Tazewell-Smyth-Bland-Wythe-Pulaski-Grayson-
Carroll-Mercer-
1111 AM EDT Wed May 14 2025

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northwest North Carolina,
southwest Virginia and southeast West Virginia.

.DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight.

Excessive rainfall from scattered thunderstorms may result in
localized flash flooding Wednesday, that may cause creeks and
streams to rapidly rise out of their banks and threaten nearby roads
and bridges.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday.

There is a low probability for widespread hazardous weather.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Weather spotters are requested to report flooding and any resulting
damage.

NCZ003>006-019-020-VAZ043>047-058-059-151030-
Surry-Stokes-Rockingham-Caswell-Wilkes-Yadkin-Henry-Pittsylvania-
Campbell-Appomattox-Buckingham-Halifax-Charlotte-
1111 AM EDT Wed May 14 2025

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for north central North Carolina,
northwest North Carolina, central Virginia and south central
Virginia.

.DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight.

Excessive rainfall from scattered thunderstorms may result in
localized flash flooding Wednesday, that may cause creeks and
streams to rapidly rise out of their banks and threaten nearby roads
and bridges.

A marginal risk (level 1 of 5) for severe weather is forecast
today. Thunderstorms may produce strong to severe wind gusts, and
hail up to the size of quarters.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday.

There is a low probability for widespread hazardous weather.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Weather spotters are requested to report hail of any size, as well
as any damage caused by thunderstorm winds in their area.

VAZ035-151030-
Amherst-
1111 AM EDT Wed May 14 2025

...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS EVENING...

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for 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.

   Flood Watch.

Excessive rainfall from scattered thunderstorms may result in
localized flash flooding Wednesday, that may cause creeks and
streams to rapidly rise out of their banks and threaten nearby roads
and bridges.

A marginal risk (level 1 of 5) for severe weather is forecast
today. Thunderstorms may produce strong to severe wind gusts, and
hail up to the size of quarters.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday.

There is a low probability for widespread hazardous weather.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Weather spotters are requested to report hail of any size, as well
as any damage caused by thunderstorm winds in their area.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 14, 1:58 PM EDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 14, 2:14 PM EDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 14, 3:17 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 14, 3:43 PM EDT, 38 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 14, 4:14 PM EDT, 7 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 14, 4:21 PM EDT, 0 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 13, 8:02 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Amherst, Appomattox, Buckingham, Campbell, City of Lynchburg	5 hr
May 13, 8:17 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Bedford, Franklin	102 min
May 13, 8:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Appomattox, Buckingham, Charlotte	37 min
May 13, 9:16 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Charlotte	4 hr
May 13, 9:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Carroll	30 min
May 13, 10:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Floyd	33 min
May 14, 10:56 AM EDT	Flood Watch	RNK	Alleghany, Amherst, Bath, Bedford, Botetourt, Craig and 12 more	8 hr
May 14, 11:52 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Henry, Pittsylvania, City of Danville	53 min
May 14, 12:18 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Carroll, Floyd, Montgomery, Patrick, Pulaski, City of Radford	2 hr
May 14, 12:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Halifax, Pittsylvania, City of Danville	48 min
May 14, 1:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Halifax	36 min
May 14, 2:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Roanoke, City of Roanoke, City of Salem	31 min
May 14, 11:29 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Rockingham	31 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Virginia, 2025 Every special weather statement in 2025

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.