Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1993, 5:15 PM EDT for Floyd County, Montgomery County, Roanoke County, Virginia. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 1993, 5:15 PM EDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1993, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Floyd County, VA, Montgomery County, VA, Roanoke County, VA
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 774 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1204 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 4, 1:49 PM EDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jun 4, 2:35 PM EDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
VAZ008-009-041200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LYNCHBURG VA 235 PM EDT FRI JUN 04 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHWESTERN PIEDMONT AND THE SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS UNTIL 7PM TONIGHT... VOLENS WEATHER RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME HEAVY...FORMING OVER SOUTHWESTERN AND WESTERN VIRGINIA FROM GRAYSON COUNTY TO BATH COUNTY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN PORTIONS OF WEST VIRGINIA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 40 TO 50 MPH AND THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE THEY COULD PRODUCE STRONG WINDS AND HAIL. IF THREATENING STORM CONDITIONS OCCUR IN YOUR AREA TAKE SHELTER AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR UPDATES AS THEY ARE ISSUED. MONROE
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 2:36 PM EDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
VAZ008-009-041200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LYNCHBURG VA 610 AM EDT FRI JUN 04 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHWESTERN PIEDMONT AND THE SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS UNTIL 7PM TONIGHT... VOLENS WEATHER RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME HEAVY...FORMING OVER SOUTHWESTERN AND WESTERN VIRGINIA FROM GRAYSON COUNTY TO BATH COUNTY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN PORTIONS OF WEST VIRGINIA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 40 TO 50 MPH AND THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE THEY COULD PRODUCE STRONG WINDS AND HAIL. IF THREATENING STORM CONDITIONS OCCUR IN YOUR AREA TAKE SHELTER AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO| OR TV STATION FOR UPDATES AS THEY ARE ISSUED. MONROE
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 2:37 PM EDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
VAZ008-009-041200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LYNCHBURG VA 235 PM EDT FRI JUN 04 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHWESTERN PIEDMONT AND THE SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS UNTIL 7PM TONIGHT... VOLENS WEATHER RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME HEAVY...FORMING OVER SOUTHWESTERN AND WESTERN VIRGINIA FROM GRAYSON COUNTY TO BATH COUNTY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN PORTIONS OF WEST VIRGINIA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 40 TO 50 MPH AND THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE THEY COULD PRODUCE STRONG WINDS AND HAIL. IF THREATENING STORM CONDITIONS OCCUR IN YOUR AREA TAKE SHELTER AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LO~CAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR UPDATES AS THEY ARE ISSUED. MONROE
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 2:41 PM EDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
VAZ008-009-042100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LYNCHBURG VA 235 PM EDT FRI JUN 04 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHWESTERN PIEDMONT AND THE SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS UNTIL 7PM TONIGHT... VOLENS WEATHER RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME HEAVY...FORMING OVER SOUTHWESTERN AND WESTERN VIRGINIA FROM GRAYSON COUNTY TO BATH COUNTY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN PORTIONS OF WEST VIRGINIA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 40 TO 50 MPH AND THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE THEY COULD PRODUCE STRONG WINDS AND HAIL. IF THREATENING STORM CONDITIONS OCCUR IN YOUR AREA TAKE SHELTER AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR UPDATES AS THEY ARE ISSUED. MONROE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Wilkes | 62 min |
| Jun 4, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alexander | 60 min |
| Jun 4, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Davie | 60 min |
| Jun 4, 7:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Davidson, Davie | 51 min |
| Jun 4, 7:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Rowan | 47 min |
| Jun 4, 7:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Guilford, Randolph | 67 min |
| Jun 4, 7:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Randolph | 48 min |
| Jun 4, 2:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Montgomery, Pulaski | 51 min |
| Jun 4, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Roanoke | 54 min |
| Jun 4, 3:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Craig | 44 min |
| Jun 4, 3:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Franklin | 49 min |
| Jun 4, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Botetourt, Roanoke | 42 min |
| Jun 4, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Bedford, Pittsylvania | 60 min |
| Jun 4, 3:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Franklin | 48 min |
| Jun 4, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Campbell | 64 min |
| Jun 4, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Bland | 46 min |
| Jun 4, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Halifax, Pittsylvania | 57 min |
| Jun 4, 5:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Patrick | 41 min |
| Jun 4, 5:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Bedford | 58 min |
| Jun 4, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Amherst, Campbell, City of Lynchburg | 49 min |
| Jun 4, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Appomattox | 58 min |
| Jun 4, 6:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania, City of Danville | 68 min |
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.