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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 204, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 1995, 7:03 PM EDT for Rowan County, North Carolina. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 18, 1995, 7:03 PM EDT (23:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 1995, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rowan County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
- 753 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1224 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.4
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 Aug 18, 2:33 PM EDT, 4 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 18, 2:33 PM EDT, 4 hours 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 230 PM EDT FRI AUG 18 1995 RECOMMENDATIONS... WBC...I THINK YOU CD GO MO CLR SAT NIGHT AND GO W/ "LESS HUMID" SUN. CRW...KEEP CHC TRW/RW THRU EVENING...THE PC OVNT. PTLY SNY TMRW...MO CLR TMRW NIGHT...MO SNY SUN. TEMPS CLOSE TO MOS. MIGHT ALSO TALK ABT LESS HUMID SUNDAY WX. RDU...THREAT OF TSTMS TO CARRY THRU EVE. XPCT MORE SUNSHINE TMRW ACROS N CNTRL PARTS THAN NW MOUNTAINS. TEMPS CLOSE TO MOS. DISCUSSION... BREAK IN THE HUMIDITY ON THE WAY AS DWPT/COOL FNT CONT TO SLIDE SW ACRS MID ATLANTIC (AS SEEN ON COOL SAT PICS). TSTMS WHICH HAVE DVLPED OVR SE WV/SW VA BRINGING SM MUCH NEEDED PCPN. THESE STORMS APPR TO BE FIRING OUT AHD OF SML VORT MAX WHICH IS INITIATING BIGGER AREA OF TSTMS OVR OHIO. STILL BELIEVE THAT DVLPMENT IS CLOSELY TIED TO TIME OF DAY AS WELL AS VORT...TSTMS WHICH DO FORM DURING LATE AFT SHD CONT TO FEED OFF UNSTBL AIR THRU EVE. NEW DVLPMENT SHD BE LIMITED DURING LATER EVENING HOURS AS VORT BEGINS TO WEAKEN. CAN SEE WHERE SM MAY LINGER AFT MID...BUT THREAT NOT BIG ENUF TO CARRY IN ZONES. TIME SXNS SHOW LOTS OF DRYER AIR ALF DURG LT PDS...AND W/ RIDGE OVHD...DON/T SEE MUCH I N THE WAY OF CLDS FOR SAT NIGHT. THINK RESIDUAL LOW LVL MOISTURE WL SPRING ENUF CU TO JUSTIFY PTLY SNY TMRW...THEN THIS WL GO BY THE WAYSIDE TMRW NIGHT. LIKE MORE OPTIMISTIC APPRCH TO SUNSHINE ON SUNDAY. DESROSIERS
In the hours before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Carroll | 50 min |
| Aug 18, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Patrick | 55 min |
| Aug 18, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Grayson | 66 min |
| Aug 18, 7:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Davie | 28 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.