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Winter Storm Warning 5, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this winter storm warning at Jan 18, 2025, 4:15 AM EST for Watauga County, North Carolina; Greenbrier County, West Virginia. It took effect at Jan 19, 2025, 1:00 AM EST. It was in force for 30 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
- Jan 18, 2025, 4:15 AM EST (09:15 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 19, 2025, 1:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Jan 20, 2025, 7:00 AM EST
- In force
- 30 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
Counties Watauga County, NC, Greenbrier County, WV
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 2059 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Jan 18, 1:00 AM EST, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 18, 1:00 AM EST, 3 hours 15 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 18, 4:15 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | RNK | Alleghany, Bath, Bland, Botetourt, Craig, Giles and 11 more | 51 hr |
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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.