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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Blacksburg, VA

June 15, 1995Tazewell County, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1995, 5:24 PM EDT for Tazewell County, Virginia. It was in force for 51 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 15, 1995, 5:24 PM EDT (21:24 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 1995, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Whole counties

County Tazewell County, VA

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 161 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: 82 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -194 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1443 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 75 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.

NWS Blacksburg, VA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 15, 2:09 PM EDT, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 2:09 PM EDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
200 PM EDT THU JUN 15 1995

DISCUSSION...
RUNNING LATE SO ITS A QUICKY...

RW/TRW DEVLPING ACRS SRN AND WRN PART OF CWA.  SCENARIO SHUD BE
SIMILAR TO YDY...EXCPT PROB FEW TRW.  TWD OR SHRTLY AFTER SUNSET
SHUD SEE THINGS QUIET DOWN.

BOTH FRI AND SAT SHUD ONCE AGAIN SEE SUNNY/PTLY SUNNY GIVE WAY TO
SCT PM TSTMS AS COLD POOL AT H5 STAYS NEAR/OVERHD WITH ONLY SLIGHT
MODIFICATION...AS H8 TEMPS WARM SOME.

GREAT LTGCG JUST OUTSIDE OFFICE!

SPN

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 15, 11:53 AM EDT, 5 hours 31 minutes before

WVZ042>045-VAZ007-009>020-022>024-032>035-043>047-058-059-NCZ001>006-
018>020-161200-

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
1155 AM EDT THU JUN 15 1995

...THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS
   AFTERNOON...

A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL BE IN THE SOUTHERN VIRGINIA/WEST
VIRGINIA/NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA VICINITY THIS AFTERNOON. WITH MID
70S TO LOWER 80S EXPECTED ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON...THE
ATMOSPHERE WILL BECOME MODERATELY UNSTABLE. MOISTURE IS LIMITED
THOUGH...SO ONLY ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD DEVELOP. A FEW OF
THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL THE MAIN THREAT.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON.

NOGUEIRA

Special weather statement, Jun 15, 11:55 AM EDT, 5 hours 29 minutes before

WVZ042>045-VAZ007-009>020-022>024-032>035-043>047-058-059-NCZ001>006-
018>020-161200-

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
1155 AM EDT THU JUN 15 1995

...THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS
   AFTERNOON...

A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL BE IN THE SOUTHERN VIRGINIA/WEST
VIRGINIA/NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA VICINITY THIS AFTERNOON. WITH MID
70S TO LOWER 80S EXPECTED ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON...THE
ATMOSPHERE WILL BECOME MODERATELY UNSTABLE. MOISTURE IS LIMITED
THOUGH...SO ONLY ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD DEVELOP. A FEW OF
THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL THE MAIN THREAT.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON.

NOGUEIRA

Local storm report, Jun 15, 2:29 PM EDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
230 PM EDT WED JUN 15 1995

DATE/TIME        COUNTY/CITY           EVENT

15/220 PM        MONTGOMERY            NWSO RNK MET'S WIFE REPORTS
                                       MARBLE SIZE HAIL NORTH SIDE
                                       BLACKSBURG.

SPN

Local storm report, Jun 15, 2:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
230 PM EDT WED JUN 15 1995

DATE/TIME        COUNTY/CITY           EVENT

15/220 PM        MONTGOMERY            NWSO RNK MET'S WIFE REPORTS
                                       MARBLE SIZE HAIL NORTH SIDE
                                       BLACKSBURG.

SPN

Local storm report, Jun 15, 2:59 PM EDT, 2 hours 25 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
Jun 15, 2:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Roanoke	45 min
Jun 15, 2:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Montgomery	46 min
Jun 15, 3:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Floyd	45 min
Jun 15, 3:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Rockbridge	46 min
Jun 15, 4:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Wythe	53 min
Jun 15, 4:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Smyth	51 min
Jun 15, 4:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Amherst	54 min
Jun 15, 5:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Bedford	42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 1995 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.