Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 213, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 1, 1995, 2:37 PM EDT for Henry County, Virginia. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 1, 1995, 2:37 PM EDT (18:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 1, 1995, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Henry County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 855 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1185 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Sep 1, 2:33 PM EDT, 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 1, 2:33 PM EDT, 4 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Sep 1, 10:01 AM EDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before
NCZ001>006-018>020-VAZ007-009>020-022>024-032>035-043>047-058- 059-WVZ042>045-011505- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 1001 AM EDT FRI SEP 1 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE SEVERE ACROSS THE REGION TODAY... AT 1000 PM...RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHWEST WEST VIRGINIA. THEY WERE JUST ENTERING EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE MOVING EAST AND WILL AFFECT PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA AND NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA BY LATE THIS MORNING AND THIS AFTERNOON. THESE STORMS COULD BE QUITE STRONG WITH HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. AFLSO...THERE WILL BE FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS. EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND RESIDENTS SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT THIS AFTERNOON FOR THESE POTENTIALLY STRONG STORMS. KANE
Special weather statement, Sep 1, 10:01 AM EDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before
NCZ001>006-018>020-VAZ007-009>020-022>024-032>035-043>047-058- 059-WVZ042>045-011505- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA ....CORRECTED..... 1001 AM EDT FRI SEP 1 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE SEVERE ACROSS THE REGION TODAY... AT 1000 AM...RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHWEST WEST VIRGINIA. THEY WERE JUST ENTERING EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE MOVING EAST AND WILL AFFECT PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA AND NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA BY LATE THIS MORNING AND THIS AFTERNOON. THESE STORMS COULD BE QUITE STRONG WITH HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. ALSO...THERE WILL BE FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS. EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND RESIDENTS SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT THIS AFTERNOON FOR THESE POTENTIALLY STRONG STORMS. KANE CORRECTED FOR PM TO AM
Special weather statement, Sep 1, 10:05 AM EDT, 4 hours 32 minutes before
NCZ001>006-018>020-VAZ007-009>020-022>024-032>035-043>047-058- 059-WVZ042>045-011505- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA ....CORRECTED..... 1001 AM EDT FRI SEP 1 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE SEVERE ACROSS THE REGION TODAY... AT 1000 AM...RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHWEST WEST VIRGINIA. THEY WERE JUST ENTERING EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE MOVING EAST AND WILL AFFECT PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA AND NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA BY LATE THIS MORNING AND THIS AFTERNOON. THESE STORMS COULD BE QUITE STRONG WITH HAIL ANDp STRONG GUSTY WINDS. ALSO...THERE WILL BE FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS. EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND RESIDENTS SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT THIS AFTERNOON FOR THESE POTENTIALLY STRONG STORMS. KANE CORRECTED FOR PM TO AM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 12:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Giles | 41 min |
| Sep 1, 12:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Grayson | 41 min |
| Sep 1, 1:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Montgomery | 50 min |
| Sep 1, 1:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Floyd | 66 min |
| Sep 1, 1:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Franklin | 55 min |
| Sep 1, 1:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania | 61 min |
| Sep 1, 2:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Franklin | 117 min |
| Sep 1, 2:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Halifax | 56 min |
| Sep 1, 3:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Buckingham | 59 min |
| Sep 1, 1:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Surry | 58 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 1995Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.