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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 154, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1995, 12:30 PM EDT for Botetourt County, Roanoke County, Virginia. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 1995, 12:30 PM EDT (16:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 1995, 1:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Botetourt County, VA, Roanoke County, VA
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 911 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 781 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
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 Jul 6, 9:56 AM EDT, 2 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 9:56 AM EDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 955 AM EDT THU JUL 6 1995 SUGGESTIONS... CRW...MAKE TODAY/S HIGHS FOR NRV M-U 80S. WBC & RDU...NONE. DISCUSSION... 12Z SFC SHOWS COLD FNT STILL WELL TO OUR WEST & NOT INTO KY YET. QUICK LOOK AT UPPER AIR PLOTS SHOWS A FAIR AMOUNT OF WIND TO PUSH THE FNT EWD...BUT STILL HAS A LONG WAY TO GO TO CLEAR MY FA. SHORT WV..VORT MAX SHUD AFFECT MY AREA THIS EVE..GOOD TIMING FOR NUMEROUS TSTMS. BEST MOISTR CONVERG PROGGED TO BE E OF MTNS..WHICH IS ALREADY THE CASE ON ADAP GRAPHICS. THETA-E RDG AXIS IS NOW RIGHT ACRS MY CWA ALSO. 850 DEWPOINTS HV DROPPED SOME ALONG WITH THE PW/S. GSO SOUNDING IS A LITTLE DRIER THAN YEST TOO. VERY LITTLE STORM MOTION IS IND E OF THE MTNS THO...SO LOCALLY HVY RAIN STILL A GOOD BET. NOTE THE LI OF -61 AT IAD- THEY ARE IN DANGER OF THE WHOLE CAPITOL BEING SUCKED UP INTO THE CLDS. ON A MORE SERIOUS NOTE...LI/S E OF MTNS WL BE IN -7 RANGE...AND WBZ ARE AROUND 100 - 110. LARGE HAIL A GOOD POSS. AS FOR CURRENT FCSTS...SEE NO REASON TO CHMG ANYTHING IN THE FIRST PERIODS. I/M THINKING THAT WE MAY HV PRECIP ARND MORE TONITE...BUT THAT CAN BE ADRESSED IN THIS AFT/S PACKAGE. JJ
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 6:30 AM EDT, 6 hours before
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WVZ042>045-VAZ007-009>020-022>024-032>035-043>047-058-059-NCZ001>006- 018>020-071200- SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 1200 PM EDT THU JUL 6 1995 ...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND FLASH FLOODING THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 5 PM FOR BATH COUNTY... A RELATIVELY STRONG COLD FRONT PUSHING INTO VERY WARM AND MOIST AIR OVER THE MID-ATLANTIC REGION WILL TRIGGER SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTHWEST PORTIONS OF NORTH CAROLINA AND UP INTO THE VIRGINIAS THIS AFTERNOON. DUE TO THE VERY UNSTABLE AIR THAT WILL DEVELOP WITH AFTERNOON HEATING A FEW OF THESE STORMS...MAINLY EAST OF THE BLUE RIDGE...MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. IN ADDITION...LOCALLY TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS ARE LIKELY WHICH COULD CAUSE FLASH FLOODING IN AREAS WHERE THE GROUND IS STILL SATURATED OR WATER LEVELS ARE STILL HIGH. SKYWARN ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON OR THIS EVENING. KEEP INFORMED ON WEATHER DEVELOPMENTSC VD THIS AFTERNOON OR THIS EVENING. KEEP INFORMED ON WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS THROUGHOUT THE DAY. MTE
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 12:04 PM EDT, 26 minutes before
WVZ042>045-VAZ007-009>020-022>024-032>035-043>047-058-059-NCZ001>006- 018>020-071200- SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 1200 PM EDT THU JUL 6 1995 ...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND FLASH FLOODING THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 5 PM FOR BATH COUNTY... A RELATIVELY STRONG COLD FRONT PUSHING INTO VERY WARM AND MOIST AIR OVER THE MID-ATLANTIC REGION WILL TRIGGER SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTHWEST PORTIONS OF NORTH CAROLINA AND UP INTO THE VIRGINIAS THIS AFTERNOON. DUE TO THE VERY UNSTABLE AIR THAT WILL DEVELOP WITH AFTERNOON HEATING A FEW OF THESE STORMS...MAINLY EAST OF THE BLUE RIDGE...MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. IN ADDITION...LOCALLY TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS ARE LIKELY WHICH COULD CAUSE FLASH FLOODING IN AREAS WHERE THE GROUND IS STILL SATURATED OR WATER LEVELS ARE STILL HIGH. SKYWARN ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON OR THIS EVENING. KEEP INFORMED ON WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS THROUGHOUT THE DAY. MTE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 1:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Bedford | 55 min |
| Jul 6, 1:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Montgomery, Pulaski | 66 min |
| Jul 6, 2:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Montgomery, Pulaski | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 2:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Botetourt | 40 min |
| Jul 6, 3:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Roanoke | 29 min |
| Jul 6, 3:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Halifax | 59 min |
| Jul 6, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Campbell | 42 min |
| Jul 6, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania | 34 min |
| Jul 6, 3:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Campbell | 69 min |
| Jul 6, 4:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Appomattox | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Halifax | 64 min |
| Jul 6, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania | 30 min |
| Jul 6, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania | 55 min |
| Jul 6, 5:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Franklin | 28 min |
| Jul 6, 1:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Davie, Rowan | 23 min |
| Jul 6, 1:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rowan | 34 min |
| Jul 6, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rowan | 15 min |
| Jul 6, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Caswell | 64 min |
| Jul 6, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Surry | 51 min |
| Jul 6, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Stokes | 55 min |
| Jul 6, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Surry | 45 min |
| Jul 6, 7:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Iredell | 58 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.