Fire charred eighty one acres of land and injured two firefighters.
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Fire charred eighty one acres of land and injured two firefighters.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Sep 12, 2:24 PM EST, 16 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 324 PM EDT WED SEP 12 2007 .SYNOPSIS... HIGH PRESSURE DRIFTS OFF TO THE NORTHEAST TONIGHT AND THURSDAY AS A WEAK STORM SYSTEM DEVELOPS ALONG THE GULF COAST AND MOVES NORTHEAST TOWARD THE AREA BY FRIDAY PROVIDING A CHANCE OF RAINFALL. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH TONIGHT/... AXIS OF HIGH PRESSURE...BRINGING MUCH DRIER AIR TO THE AREA TODAY ...WILL GRADUALLY SLIDE EAST TONIGHT. MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS WILL PREVAIL FOR MOST OF THE FORECAST AREA WHICH SHOULD LEAD TO LOW TEMPERATURES DROPPING TOWARD COOLER MAV NUMBERS. HOWEVER... AS EAST/NORTHEAST SFC WINDS DEVELOP OVERNIGHT...LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL BEGIN TO ADVECT INTO THE NC PIEDMONT AND OUR EASTERN VIRGINIA COUNTIES. AS A RESULT...WENT A FEW DEGREES WARMER AT LYH/DAN WHERE BUFKIT SOUNDINGS SUGGEST LOW LEVEL CLOUDS MAY DEVELOP. AREAS OF VALLEY FOG POSSIBLE FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE FORECAST AREA. && .SHORT TERM /THURSDAY/... FOR THURSDAY...LOW LEVEL MOISTURE CONTINUES TO ADVECT INTO THE FORECAST AREA...BUT WITH FORECAST SOUNDINGS STILL SHOWING DRY AIR ABOVE 850MB...DRY CONDITIONS SHOULD PREVAIL. AS FOR TEMPS...WITH ADDITIONAL CU DEVELOPMENT AND THE POTENTIAL FOR LOW CLOUDS EARLY AS WELL AS HIGH CLOUDINESS ASSOCIATED WITH 70KT UPPER JET MOVING THROUGH ...KEPT HIGHS BELOW MAV VALUES. && .LONG TERM /THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... LOW CLOUDS/MOISTURE WILL BEGIN TO OVERSPREAD THE AREA LATE THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY AS SOUTHERN SHORT-WAVE PASSES BY TO OUR SOUTH. DECENT LIFT WITH THIS SYSTEM SHOULD PROVIDE BEST POPS AND QPF ALONG THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE CWA WHERE POPS WERE RAISED TO LIKELY DURING THE DAY FRIDAY. SREFS IN DECENT AGREEMENT THAT BEST CHANCES FOR RAINFALL ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF ON FRIDAY. QPF PER HPC FROM 0.25 TO 0.50 INCHES THROUGH LATE FRIDAY. TS HUMBERTO OR ITS REMAINS NOT REALLY FORECAST AT THIS TIME TO BECOME ENTRAINED INTO THE STRUNG OUT SYSTEM TO AFFECT THE SOUTHEAST ON FRIDAY BUT THE POSSIBILITY EXISTS THAT IT COULD PROVIDE SOME ADDITIONAL MOISTURE. STRONG COLD FRONT PUSHES ACROSS THE CWA EARLY SATURDAY WITH SOME ENHANCED SHOWER ACTIVITY POSSIBLE ALONG THIS BOUNDARY. STRONG HIGH PRESSURE THEN BUILDS ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY AND INTO PENNSYLVANIA OVER THE WEEKEND PROVIDING COOL NORTHWEST FLOW AND MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES. TEMPERATURES WILL FEEL LIKE FALL WITH LOWS INTO THE LOW 50S PIEDMONT...40S IN THE MOUNTAINS AND POSSIBLY A FEW UPPER 30S IN THE COOLER VALLEYS EARLY SUNDAY. SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE CONTINUES TO DRIFT OFF TOWARD THE NORTHEAST EARLY NEXT WEEK AS UPPER RIDGE STARTS TO REBUILD OVER THE EASTERN U.S. GFS SHOWS THE BEST HEIGHT RISES OVER THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY LEAVING NORTHWEST FLOW ALONG THE EASTERN SEABOARD AND A POSSIBLE WEAKNESS ALONG THE SOUTHEAST COAST. THIS SHOULD KEEP WORST HEAT TO THE WEST FOR THE TIME BEING AND NEAR SEASONABLE TEMPS THRU WEDNESDAY. && .AVIATION /19Z WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY/... VFR CONDITIONS TO PREVAIL THROUGH THIS EVENING WITH DRY AIR IN PLACE. OVERNIGHT...WITH LIGHT WINDS AND MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES...ANTICIPATE VALLEY FOG TO BE A LITTLE MORE PREVALENT THAN WEDNESDAY MORNING...ESPECIALLY AT LWB WHERE VLIFR CONDITIONS POSSIBLE DUE TO RESTRICTED VISBILITY FROM FOG. ANOTHER CONCERN OVERNIGHT IS FOR THE FAR EASTERN PORTION OF THE FORECAST AREA WHERE LOW LEVEL WINDS BECOME EAST/NORTHEAST WHICH MAY ADVECT LOW CLOUDS INTO LYH/DAN AS HIGHER DEW POINTS RETURN. WITH LOW CONFIDENCE ON THIS...JUST ADDED A SCATTERED LOW CLOUDS. AS SFC RIDGE CONTINUES TO PUSH EAST...SFC WINDS THURSDAY BECOME SOUTHEAST AND LOW LEVEL MOISTURE PUSHES INTO THE AREA. THIS WILL RESULT IN LATE MORNING CU FORMATION...BUT WITH BUFKIT FORECAST SOUNDINGS STILL SHOWING PLENTY OF DRY AIR ABOVE 5000 FT...ANY PRECIPITATION SHOULD HOLD OFF UNTIL THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT BEFORE ENDING SATURDAY MORNING IN THE SOUTHEAST AS THE STRONG FRONT MOVES TO THE COAST. && .RNK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... VA...NONE. NC...NONE. WV...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...PC NEAR TERM...PH SHORT TERM...PH LONG TERM...PC AVIATION...PH
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 442 AM EDT WED SEP 12 2007 NCZ001>006-018>020-VAZ007-009>020-022>024-032>035-043>047-058-059- WVZ042>045-130845- ASHE-ALLEGHANY NC-SURRY-STOKES-ROCKINGHAM-CASWELL-WATAUGA-WILKES- YADKIN-TAZEWELL-SMYTH-BLAND-GILES-WYTHE-PULASKI-MONTGOMERY-GRAYSON- CARROLL-FLOYD-CRAIG-ALLEGHANY VA-BATH-ROANOKE-BOTETOURT-ROCKBRIDGE- PATRICK-FRANKLIN-BEDFORD-AMHERST-HENRY-PITTSYLVANIA-CAMPBELL- APPOMATTOX-BUCKINGHAM-HALIFAX-CHARLOTTE-MERCER-SUMMERS-MONROE- GREENBRIER- 442 AM EDT WED SEP 12 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA...NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...CENTRAL VIRGINIA...SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
A wildfire located two miles north of Shockoe charred eighty one acres of land and injured two firefighters.
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