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Freeze Warning 4, NWS Blacksburg, VA

May 2, 202616 counties in Virginia; Ashe County, Watauga County, North Carolina; 4 counties in West Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this freeze warning at May 2, 2026, 12:03 PM EDT for 16 counties in Virginia; Ashe County, Watauga County, North Carolina; 4 counties in West Virginia. It took effect at May 3, 2026, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 9 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: May 2, 2026, 12:03 PM EDT (16:03 UTC)
In effect from: May 3, 2026, 12:00 AM EDT
Expired: May 3, 2026, 9:00 AM EDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA

All 22 counties

Ashe County, NC, Watauga County, NC, Alleghany County, VA, Bath County, VA, Bland County, VA, City of Buena Vista, VA, City of Covington, VA, City of Lexington, VA, City of Radford, VA, Floyd County, VA, Giles County, VA, Grayson County, VA, Montgomery County, VA, Pulaski County, VA, Rockbridge County, VA, Smyth County, VA, Tazewell County, VA, Wythe County, VA, Greenbrier County, WV, Mercer County, WV, Monroe County, WV, Summers County, WV

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:02 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 freeze 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 freeze warning went out at May 1, 2:17 PM EDT, 21 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 1, 2:17 PM EDT, 21 hours 46 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 1, 3:58 PM EDT, 20 hours 5 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 2, 12:03 PM EDT	Frost Advisory	RNK	Amherst, Bedford, Botetourt, Carroll, Craig, Franklin and 7 more	21 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Virginia, 2026 Freeze Warnings in West Virginia, 2026 Freeze Warnings in North Carolina, 2026 Every freeze warning in 2026

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.