Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1994, 6:06 PM EDT for Bedford County, Virginia. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 1994, 6:06 PM EDT (22:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1994, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bedford County, VA
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 180 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -214 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 978 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 29, 4:51 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
VAZ032-033-043-292200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROANOKE VIRGINIA 451 PM EDT WED JUN 29 1994 ...STRONG STORM MOVES FROM NORTH CAROLINA INTO SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA... AT 445 PM EDT...WEATHER RADAR DETECTS A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHWEST PATRICK COUNTY...JUST NORTH OF CANA AND ALONG THE BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY. THE STORM IS MOVING EASTWARD AT NEAR 30 MPH AND WILL APPROACHING THE STUART AREA BY 515 PM. POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY WITH THE TRANSIT OF THE STORM. BEWARE OF DANGEROUS FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES AND TAKE SAFE SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. LISTEN TO NOA WEATHER RADIO FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND UPDATES. END/DOC
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 4:52 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
VAZ032-033-043-292200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROANOKE VIRGINIA 451 PM EDT WED JUN 29 1994 ...STRONG STORM MOVES FROM NORTH CAROLINA INTO SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA... AT 445 PM EDT...WEATHER RADAR DETECTS A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHWEST PATRICK COUNTY...JUST NORTH OF CANA AND ALONG THE BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY. THE STORM IS MOVING EASTWARD AT NEAR 30 MPH AND WILL APPROACHING THE STUART AREA BY 515 PM. POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY WITH THE TRANSIT OF THE STORM. BEWARE OF DANGEROUS FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES AND TAKE SAFE SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. LISTEN TO NOA WEATHER RADIO FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND UPDATES. END/DOC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 10:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Davidson, Randolph | 32 min |
| Jun 28, 11:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Guilford, Randolph | 27 min |
| Jun 28, 11:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rockingham | 36 min |
| Jun 29, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alleghany, Wilkes | 29 min |
| Jun 29, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Wilkes | 36 min |
| Jun 29, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Stokes | 33 min |
| Jun 29, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rockingham, Stokes | 32 min |
| Jun 29, 7:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Guilford, Rockingham | 32 min |
| Jun 29, 7:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Iredell | 32 min |
| Jun 29, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Franklin | 48 min |
| Jun 29, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Franklin | 40 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994
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.