URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 439 PM EDT SUN MAY 11 2008 ...DAMAGING WINDS THROUGH MONDAY... .A STRENGTHENING AREA OF LOW PRESSURE OVER THE OHIO VALLEY WILL MOVE TO ALONG THE MID ATLANTIC COAST MONDAY. STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS WILL DEVELOP IN THE WAKE OF THIS STORM SYSTEM. THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR WIND GUSTS BETWEEN 50 AND 65 MPH IN THE MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS OF NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA. WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 55 MPH ARE LIKELY ACROSS SOUTHSIDE VIRGINIA AND IN THE NORTHERN PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA. DUE TO THE WET GROUND AND THE FACT THAT THE LEAVES HAVE COME OUT ON MOST TREES...WINDS OF THIS SPEED COULD MORE EASILY TOPPLE TREES. THESE POTENTIALLY DAMAGING WIND GUSTS WILL BE POSSIBLE BEGINNING TONIGHT...BUT MORE SO DURING THE DAY MONDAY AS THE STORM MOVES TO ALONG THE COAST. NCZ001>003-018-019-VAZ010>017-022-032-033-120445- /O.UPG.KRNK.HW.A.0003.080512T0100Z-080512T2200Z/ /O.EXB.KRNK.HW.W.0004.000000T0000Z-080513T0100Z/ ASHE-ALLEGHANY NC-SURRY-WATAUGA-WILKES-BLAND-GILES-WYTHE-PULASKI- MONTGOMERY-GRAYSON-CARROLL-FLOYD-ROANOKE-PATRICK-FRANKLIN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WEST JEFFERSON...SPARTA...DOBSON... BOONE...WILKESBORO...BLAND...PEARISBURG...WYTHEVILLE...PULASKI... RADFORD...BLACKSBURG...INDEPENDENCE...GALAX...FLOYD...SALEM... STUART...ROCKY MOUNT 439 PM EDT SUN MAY 11 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT MONDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT MONDAY. THE HIGH WIND WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER THE AREA TONIGHT AND CONTINUE THROUGH THE DAY MONDAY. WINDS MAY GUST TO BETWEEN 50 AND 65 MPH. THESE GUSTS MAY BE STRONG ENOUGH TO DOWN TREES...TREE LIMBS...OR POWER LINES. DUE TO THE WET GROUND AND THE FACT THAT THE LEAVES HAVE COME OUT ON MOST TREES...WINDS OF THIS SPEED COULD MORE EASILY TOPPLE TREES. A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR MORE CAN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE.
| Meadows of Dan, VA - on the Blue Ridge Pkwy - Elev. 3215' | |||
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| LAST READING AT TIME: 9:45 AM DATE: May 14 2008 ,Time of next update: 9:50 AM | |||
| Current Weather | Stopped raining | Current Temperature | 54.7°F (12.6 °C), Apparent temp 49.3 °F |
| Maximum Temperature (since midnight) | 55.6 °F at: 5:13 PM | Minimum Temperature (since midnight) | 42.8 °F at: 9:51 AM |
| Average windspeed (ten minute) | 4.3 mph | Wind Direction (ten minute) | WNW (282°) |
| Windchill Temperature | 54.7°F | Maximum Gust (last hour) | 11.5 mph at: 5:28PM |
| Maximum Gust (since midnight) | 147.9 mph at: 12:32 AM | Maximum 1 minute average (since midnight) | 12.7 mph at: 12:06 PM |
| Rainfall (last hour) | 0.00 in. (0.0 mm) | Rainfall (since midnight) | 5.07 in. (128.8 mm) at 3:09 PM |
| Rainfall This month | 19.46 in. (494.3 mm) | Rainfall To date this year | 27.39 in. (695.7 mm) |
| Maximum rain per minute (last hour) | 0.00 in/min | Maximum rain per hour (last 6 hours) | 0.16 in/hour |
| Yesterdays rainfall | 5.01 in | DewPoint | 32.0°F (Wet Bulb :45.3°F ) |
| Humidity | 79 %, Humidex 50.8 °F | Barometer corrected to msl | 29.379 in. (994.9 hPa) (QNH 30.138 in.) |
| Pressure change | -0.00 in. (last hour) | Trend (last hour) | STEADY |
| Pressure change (last 12 hours) | -0.39 in | Pressure change (last 6 hours) | -0.15 in |
| Current Indoor temp. 58.0 °F | |||
| Current Indoor hum. 0 % | |||
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