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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Blacksburg, VA

June 2, 1989Pittsylvania County, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1989, 5:46 PM EDT for Pittsylvania County, Virginia. It was in force for 44 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 2, 1989, 5:46 PM EDT (21:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 1989, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Whole counties

County Pittsylvania County, VA

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 2, 6:15 PM EDT	Hail 1	Pittsylvania, VA

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 2, 2:57 PM EDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROANOKE VA
255  PM  EDT  FRI JUN 2  1989

...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...

AT 250 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED THAT THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY
HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS...WERE
OVER SOUTHEAST SECTIONS OF WEST VIRGINIA AND MOVING TOWARD THE
VIRGINIA LINE.

BY 310 PM THESE STORMS SHOULD MOVE INTO THE VIRGINIA COUNTIES OF
CRAIG AND BOTETOURT.  PERSONS IN THESE COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT
FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER AND STAY TUNED TO RADIO AND
TV IN THE EVENT WARNINGS ARE ISSUED.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE MOVING INTO BLAND...WYTHE AND
GRAYSON COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. SOME OF
THESE SAME STORMS GAVE MARBLE SIZE HAIL IN THE VICINITY OF TRICITIES
AND THE AIRPORT THERE REPORTED WIND GUSTS TO 54 MPH. $$HM

Special weather statement, Jun 2, 4:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 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
Jun 2, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Wilkes	62 min
Jun 2, 4:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Iredell	53 min
Jun 2, 4:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Guilford, Rockingham	59 min
Jun 2, 5:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Davie, Rowan	46 min
Jun 2, 5:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Alamance	50 min
Jun 2, 5:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Caswell	32 min
Jun 2, 6:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Iredell	33 min
Jun 2, 4:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Floyd, Montgomery, Roanoke	55 min
Jun 2, 5:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Franklin	68 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 1989 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1989

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data.