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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 174, NWS Blacksburg, VA

July 6, 1995Iredell County, North Carolina

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1995, 7:17 PM EDT for Iredell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

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The facts

Issued
Jul 6, 1995, 7:17 PM EDT (23:17 UTC)
Expired
Jul 6, 1995, 8:15 PM EDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area
Whole counties

County Iredell County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 93 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1995-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 911 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1995-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 43 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

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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, 2:38 PM EDT, 4 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 2:38 PM EDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
235 PM EDT THU JUL 6 1995

DISCUSSION...
I/VE HAD VERY LITTLE TIME TO LOOK AT MUCH. POPS LOOK AWFUL LOW FOR
TONITE/THIS EVE. ANYWAY...WE/LLR GO ALONG WITH WHATEVER YOU FOLKS
THAT HV BEEN LOOKING AT THE MODELS WANT.

JJ

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 6, 4:50 PM EDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 6, 12:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKBotetourt, Roanoke30 min
Jul 6, 1:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKBedford55 min
Jul 6, 1:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKMontgomery, Pulaski66 min
Jul 6, 2:15 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRNKMontgomery, Pulaski2 hr
Jul 6, 2:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKBotetourt40 min
Jul 6, 3:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKRoanoke29 min
Jul 6, 3:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKHalifax59 min
Jul 6, 3:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKCampbell42 min
Jul 6, 3:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKPittsylvania34 min
Jul 6, 3:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKCampbell69 min
Jul 6, 4:00 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRNKAppomattox2 hr
Jul 6, 4:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKHalifax64 min
Jul 6, 4:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKPittsylvania30 min
Jul 6, 4:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKPittsylvania55 min
Jul 6, 5:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKFranklin28 min
Jul 6, 1:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKDavie, Rowan23 min
Jul 6, 1:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKRowan34 min
Jul 6, 2:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKRowan15 min
Jul 6, 2:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKCaswell64 min
Jul 6, 5:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKSurry51 min
Jul 6, 6:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKStokes55 min
Jul 6, 7:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKSurry45 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.