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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 176, NWS Blacksburg, VA

July 6, 1995Roanoke County, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1995, 8:20 PM EDT for Roanoke County, Virginia. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 6, 1995, 8:20 PM EDT (00:20 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 1995, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Whole counties

County Roanoke County, VA

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 126 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: 615 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -101 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1012 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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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 Jul 6, 2:38 PM EDT, 5 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 2:38 PM EDT, 5 hours 42 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

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Local storm report, Jul 6, 8:20 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
820 PM EDT THU JUL 06 1995

...CORRECTED FOR WRONG DATE...

DATE/TIME      COUNTY/CITY         EVENT

06/153 PM-     PULASKI VA          NICKEL SIZE 5 MILES NORTH OF
   157 %PM                          PULASKI.

06/157 PM      PULASKI VA          DIME SIZE HAIL IN PULASKI.

06/200 PM      PULASKI VA          NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS
                                   BROKE OUT WINDOWS IN PULASKI.

06/205 PM      BEDFORD VA          THUNDERSTORM WIND DOWNED TREES IN
                                   MONTVALE ON RTE 619 JUST OFF OF
                                   RTE 460.

06/220 PM      PULASKI VA          LOWER MADISON STREET AND THE
                                   INTERSECTION OF LOWER
                                   WASHINGTON STREET AND 4TH STREET
                                   FLOODED IN THE CITY OF PULASKI.

06/223 PM      ROANOKE VA          DIME SIZE HAIL IN THE WESTERN PART OF
                                   SALEM.

06/305 PM      HALIFAX VA          DIME SIZE HAIL IN HALIFAX.

06/330 PM      CASWELL NC          QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND TREES DOWN IN
                                   PROVIDENCE.

06/330 PM      WYTHE VA            1 INCH HAIL NEAR SPEEDWELL.

06/335 PM      HALIFAX VA          THUNDERSTORM WINDS DOWNED TREES IN
                                   BIRCHLAND PARK OR ABOUT 14 MILES
                                   WEST-SOUTHWEST OF HALIFAX.

06/355 PM      CAMPBELL VA         THUNDERSTORM WINDS DOWNED A TREE ON
                                   RTE 605 IN NARUNA.

06/435 PM      HALIFAX VA          THUNDERSTORM WINDS DOWNED A TREE
                                   ACROSS RTE 501 JUST NORTH
                                   OF HALIFAX. TRAFFIC BLOCKED.

PMC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 6, 8:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Iredell	25 min
Jul 6, 8:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Rowan	56 min
Jul 6, 9:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Iredell, Rowan	59 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.