Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1989, 2:03 PM EDT for Patrick County, Virginia. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 1989, 2:03 PM EDT (18:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1989, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Patrick County, VA
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KROA 051806
SVRROA
VAC141-051900-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROANOKE VA
203 PM EDT MON JUN 5 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ROANOKE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA
...PATRICK
AT 200 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHWEST
PATRICK MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.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 5, 1:09 PM EDT, 54 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROANOKE VA 100 PM EDT MON JUN 5 1989 ..A THUNDERSTORM IN NORTH CAROLINA MOVING INTO SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA... AT 1 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM OVER SURRY COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE MOVING INTO SOUTHERN CARROLL COUNTY WITHIN THE HOUR. PERSONS IN CARROLL COUNTY ARE ADVISED TO BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR POSSIBLE HEAVY DOWNPOURS DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. CG
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 1:36 PM EDT, 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROANOKE VA 130 PM EDT MON JUN 5 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS BUILDING IN SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA... AT 125 EDT RADAR SHOWED NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE BUILDING IN THE COUNTIES OF CARROLL AND FLOYD IN SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND SHOULD BE MOVING INTO THE COUNTIES OF PATRICK MONTGOMERY FRANKLIN AND ROANOKE IN THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO. PERSONS IN THESE COUNTIES CAN EXPECT STRONG GUSTY WINDS HEAVY HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. CG
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 1:39 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROANOKE VA 130 PM EDT MON JUN 5 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS BUILDING IN SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA... AT 125 EDT RADAR SHOWED NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE BUILDING IN THE COUNTIES OF CARROLL AND FLOYD IN SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND SHOULD BE MOVING INTO THE COUNTIES OF PATRICK MONTGOMERY FRANKLIN AND ROANOKE IN THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO. PERSONS IN THESE COUNTIES CAN EXPECT STRONG GUSTY WINDS HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. CG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 4:36 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Carroll, Patrick | 2 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.