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Winter Storm Warning 7, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this winter storm warning at Feb 18, 2025, 3:13 AM EST for 12 counties in Virginia; Caswell County, Rockingham County, Stokes County, North Carolina; Greenbrier County, Mercer County, Summers County, West Virginia. It took effect at Feb 19, 2025, 1:00 AM EST. It was in force for 48 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
- Feb 18, 2025, 3:13 AM EST (08:13 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 19, 2025, 1:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 21, 2025, 1:00 AM EST
- In force
- 48 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
Counties Caswell County, NC, Rockingham County, NC, Stokes County, NC, Amherst County, VA, Appomattox County, VA, Buckingham County, VA, Campbell County, VA, Charlotte County, VA, City of Danville, VA, City of Lynchburg, VA, City of Martinsville, VA, Halifax County, VA, Henry County, VA, Pittsylvania County, VA, Tazewell County, VA, Greenbrier County, WV, Mercer County, WV, Summers County, WV
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:17 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 23 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
- 1785 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 81 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 3:13 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | RNK | Alleghany, Amherst, Appomattox, Bath, Bedford, Bland and 30 more | 58 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Warnings in Virginia, 2025Winter Storm Warnings in North Carolina, 2025Winter Storm Warnings in West Virginia, 2025Every winter storm warning 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.