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Winter Storm Warning 4, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this winter storm warning at Feb 21, 2026, 1:59 PM EST for Grayson County, Smyth County, Tazewell County, Virginia; Ashe County, Watauga County, North Carolina; Greenbrier County, Mercer County, Summers County, West Virginia. It took effect at Feb 22, 2026, 1:00 AM EST. It was in force for 52 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 21, 2026, 1:59 PM EST (18:59 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 22, 2026, 1:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2026, 5:00 AM EST
- In force
- 52 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
Counties Ashe County, NC, Watauga County, NC, Grayson County, VA, Smyth County, VA, Tazewell County, VA, Greenbrier County, WV, Mercer County, WV, Summers County, WV
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:59 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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 2567 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 95 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -77 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 Feb 21, 6:28 AM EST, 7 hours 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 21, 6:28 AM EST, 7 hours 31 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 1:59 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | RNK | Amherst, Bath, Bland, Giles, Grayson, Rockbridge and 3 more | 63 hr |
Nearby
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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.