Special Weather Statement issued October 16 at 4:21AM EDT by NWS Blacksburg VA
Official severe-weather alerts, warning areas, and disaster updates.
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Pockets of fog, which, will be dense at times will be present through the morning commute across the area. This may lead to difficult driving conditions as visibilities will be reduced down to 1/4 mile or less in localized areas. Drivers are recommended to leave early to account for slow commute times this morning and only use low beam headlights.
- Event time
- Source last updated
- Current version retrieved
- Provider
- NWS — active weather alerts (Storm)
- Location
- US
- Severity
- Moderate
- area
- Ashe; Alleghany; Watauga; Wilkes; Tazewell; Smyth; Bland; Giles; Wythe; Pulaski; Montgomery; Grayson; Carroll; Floyd; Alleghany; Bath; Mercer; Summers; Monroe; Eastern Greenbrier; Western Greenbrier
- event
- Special Weather Statement
- onset
- 2026-10-16T04:21:00-04:00
- states
- ["NC","VA","WV"]
- urgency
- Expected
- certainty
- Observed
- effective
- 2026-10-16T04:21:00-04:00
- message id
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.d0bdd2e3519215fe508beee153d5037bf5465bbe.001.1
- references
- []
- message type
- Alert
- location basis
- Approximate: centers of the NWS zones listed in the alert
- freshness minutes
- 60
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