Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1990, 9:42 AM EDT for Craig County, Virginia. It was in force for 63 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 8, 1990, 9:42 AM EDT (13:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1990, 10:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Craig 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 8, 10:00 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Craig, 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 nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 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 081343 SVRROA VAC045-081445- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROANOKE VA 942 AM EDT FRI JUN 8 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ROANOKE VAHAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA ...CRAIG COUNTY AT 930 AM EDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO WESTERN CRAIG COUNTY..THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 40 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. HE0AVY 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 8, 9:28 AM EDT, 14 minutes before
VA013-016-081500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROANOKE VA 930 AM EDT FRI JUN 8 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE MOUNTAINS OF SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA.. AT 9 AM EDT RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS IN MERCER COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH AND EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THE COUNTIES OF NORTHERN GILES AND EASTERN CRAIG WITHIN THE HOUR. PEOPLE IN THESE COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT FOR SOME STRONG GUSTY WINDS HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. CG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 10:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Botetourt | 45 min |
| Jun 8, 3:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Franklin | 29 min |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.