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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Blacksburg, VA

May 12, 1993Halifax County, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 1993, 7:39 PM EDT for Halifax County, Virginia. It was in force for 36 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 12, 1993, 7:39 PM EDT (23:39 UTC)
Expired: May 12, 1993, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Whole counties

County Halifax County, VA

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 115 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 32 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -125 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1402 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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, May 12, 2:36 PM EDT, 5 hours 3 minutes before

VAZ008-009-121900-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LYNCHBURG VA
230 PM EDT WED MAY 12 1993

...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE BLOOMING AROUND WESTERN VIRGINIA...

AT 215 PM EDT...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SEVERAL AREA OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS IN WESTERN VIRGINIA. A CLUSTER OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN HIGHLAND AND BATH COUNTIES. A SECOND
CLUSTER OF STORMS WERE LOCATED IN PATRICK...HENRY AND PITTSLYVANIA
COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED JUST SOUTHWEST OF
STUART IN SOUTHCENTRAL PATRICK COUNTY...NEAR LEATHERWOOD IN NORTHEAST
HENRY COUNTY...NEAR SWANSONVILLE IN WEST CENTRAL PITTSLYVANIA COUNTY
AND NEAR THE JUNCTION OF GREENBRIER...ALLEGHANY AND BATH COUNTIES.
THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE WEST AT 15 MPH.

PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS CAN EXPECT HEAVY DOWNPOURS...
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING..STRONG GUSTY AND SMALL HAIL. BE PREPARED TO TAKE
COVER IF THREATENING WEATHER COMES YOUR WAY.

MEADOWS

Special weather statement, May 12, 2:43 PM EDT, 4 hours 56 minutes before

VAZ008-009-121900-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LYNCHBURG VA
230 PM EDT WED MAY 12 1993

...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE BLOOMING AROUND WESTERN VIRGINIA...

AT 215 PM EDT...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SEVERAL AREA OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS IN WESTERN VIRGINIA. A CLUSTER OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN HIGHLAND AND BATH COUNTIES. A SECOND
CLUSTER OF STORMS WERE LOCATED IN PATRICK...HENRY AND PITTSLYVANIA
COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED JUST SOUTHWEST OF
STUART IN SOUTHCENTRAL PATRICK COUNTY...NEAR LEATHERWOOD IN NORTHEAST
HENRY COUNTY...NEAR SWANSONVILLE IN WEST CENTRAL PITTSLYVANIA COUNTY
AND NEAR THE JUNCTION OF GREENBRIER...ALLEGHANY AND BATH COUNTIES.
THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MPH.

PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS CAN EXPECT HEAVY DOWNPOURS...
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING..STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. BE PREPARED
TO TAKE COVER IF THREATENING WEATHER COMES YOUR WAY.

MEADOWS

Special weather statement, May 12, 4:30 PM EDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 12, 6:05 PM EDT, 1 hour 34 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
May 12, 3:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Pittsylvania, City of Danville	2 hr
May 12, 7:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Charles City	36 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 1993 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993

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.