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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Blacksburg, VA

May 19, 1995Henry County, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1995, 3:26 AM EDT for Henry County, Virginia. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 19, 1995, 3:26 AM EDT (07:26 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 1995, 4:00 AM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Whole counties

County Henry County, VA

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 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.

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: 611 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -135 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1530 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
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 May 19, 2:16 AM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 19, 2:16 AM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 18, 9:26 PM EDT, 6 hours before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
925 PM EDT THU MAY 18 1995

DATE/TIME     COUNTY/CITY        EVENT
18/747 PM     MONTGOMERY         QUARTER HAIL JUST WEST OF PILOT.

18/805 PM     FLOYD              QUARTER HAIL JUST NORTHEAST OF COPPER
                                 HILL.

18/805 PM     ROANOKE            NICKEL HAIL IN VINTON.

18/840 PM     FRANKLIN           GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL JUST WEST OF SMITH
                                 LAKE.

18/847 PM     FRANKLIN           DIME SIZE HAIL JUST WEST OF SMITH
                                 MOUNTAIN LAKE.

18/912 PM     PITTSYLVANIA       GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AND POWER OUT IN
                                 HUR\T.

MTE

Special weather statement, May 18, 9:51 PM EDT, 5 hours 35 minutes before

NCZ001>003-018-019-VAZ007-009>018-022-023-032>035-WVZ042>045-190755-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
950 PM EDT THU MAY 18 1995

...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR A PORTION OF SOUTHERN WEST
VIRGINIA...NORTHWESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... AND ALL OF SOUTHWESTERN
VIRGINIA UNTIL 4 AM...

AT 950 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED NUMEROUS LARGE THUNDERSTORMS
OVER EASTERN KENTUCKY AND EASTERN TENNESSEE MOVING INTO SOUTHERN
WEST VIRGINIA AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA.

MANY OF THESE STORMS HAVE BEEN PRODUCING TORNADOES AND LARGE HAIL
THROUGH MUCH OF THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE LOWER OHIO
AND TENNESSEE VALLEYS.

THIS ACTIVITY WILL BE MOVING THROUGH THE WATCH AREA LATE THIS
EVENING AND INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE
LATEST UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS DANGEROUS
WEATHER SITUATION.

JDS

Special weather statement, May 18, 9:54 PM EDT, 5 hours 32 minutes before

NCZ001>003-018-019-VAZ007-009>018-022-023-032>035-WVZ042>045-190755-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
950 PM EDT THU MAY 18 1995

...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR A PORTION OF SOUTHERN WEST
VIRGINIA...NORTHWESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... AND ALL OF SOUTHWESTERN
VIRGINIA UNTIL 4 AM...

THIS WATCH REPLACES THE EARLIER TORNADO AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WATCHES FOR SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA.

AT 950 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED NUMEROUS LARGE THUNDERSTORMS
OVER EASTERN KENTUCKY AND EASTERN TENNESSEE MOVING INTO SOUTHERN
WEST VIRGINIA AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA.

MANY OF THESE STORMS HAVE BEEN PRODUCING TORNADOES AND LARGE HAIL
THROUGH MUCH OF THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE LOWER OHIO
AND TENNESSEE VALLEYS.

THIS ACTIVITY WILL BE MOVING THROUGH THE WATCH AREA LATE THIS
EVENING AND INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE
LATEST UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS DANGEROUS
WEATHER SITUATION.

JDS

Local storm report, May 18, 10:36 PM EDT, 4 hours 50 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
1035 PM EDT THU MAY 18 1995

DATE/TIME     COUNTY/CITY        EVENT
18/430 PM     HENRY              DIME HAIL JUST EAST OF MARTINSVILLE
                                 COVERED THE GROUND.

18/820 PM     FRANKLIN           DIME HAIL 3 MILES NORTH OF BURNT CHIMNEY.

18/842 PM     BEDFORD            GOLFBALL HAIL AT THE SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKE
                                 STATE PARK.

18/900 PM     CAMPBELL           DIME HAIL IN ALTAVISTA.

JDS

Special weather statement, May 19, 2:32 AM EDT, 54 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 18, 8:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Franklin	43 min
May 18, 8:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Bedford	39 min
May 18, 8:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Pittsylvania	49 min
May 18, 9:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Campbell	54 min
May 18, 9:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Charles City	42 min
May 19, 12:10 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Rockbridge	35 min
May 19, 3:49 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Pittsylvania	26 min
May 19, 3:38 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Rockingham	37 min
May 18, 11:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Greenbrier	46 min
May 18, 11:45 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RNK	Greenbrier	30 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 1995 Every 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.