Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1996, 3:08 PM EDT for Charlotte County, Virginia. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 1996, 3:08 PM EDT (19:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1996, 3:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Charlotte County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1053 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 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 Jun 11, 1:54 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 1:54 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 200 PM EDT TUE JUN 11 1996 DISCUSSION... 88D AND SAT PIX INDCTING TRW FIRING ALNG EDGE OF RAIN COOLED AIR/ BNDRY FROM TSTM CLUSTER THAT TRKD ACRS CNTRL AND ERN VA/NC THIS MORNING. WEST OF THERE ONLY ISLTD CELLS POPPING AND AS WAS THE CASE YDY. WITHOUT ANY STRNG LFTING MCNSM OR GUD JET STRK...THAT MAY DO IT FOR MUCH OF THE RNK CWA...LETS HOPE SO. THRU THE FCST PD NOT MUCH CHG EXPECTED TO OCCUR. MOST OF THE STRONGEST TRW AND HVIEST RAIN IN THE CWA WILL BE DURING THE PM AND EARLY EVENING. UNFRTNTLY THAT DOESNT PRECLUDE SCAT HVY RAIN PRDCRS DRNG THE EARLY MORNING/PREDAWN HOURS AS HAS BEEN CASE SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE WEEKEND. THRU THE PD VARIOUS WK SHRTWVS/JET STRKS PRBLY TO TRK ACRS THE REGION WHILE MEAN RH REMAINS RESPCTBL AND LO LVLS REMAIN MOIST. NOT A WHOLE LOT OF COOLING PRGD TO TAKE PLACE THO ALFT...AND HOPEFULLY THIS CAN KEEP US FROM SERIOUS THRT OF SVR.t OTHER GUD NEWS...SINCE YDY ACTVTY HAS ALSO BEEN MORE WIDELY SCATTERED IN AREAS WITH LOWEST FFG. HOPING THAT FFA CAN FINALLY BE TOSED THIS EVENING AND PERHAPS KEPT IN THE FILE CABINET TIL NEXT ORGNZD EVENT. NOGUEIRA
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 11, 11:31 AM EDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
1130 AM EDT TUE JUN 11 1996
TIME (EST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
345 PM 6 NE BURNT CHIMNEY VA TORNADO.
06/09/96 FRANKLIN THE TORNADO BRIEFLY TOUCHED
DOWN AND DESTROYED A WELL
BUILT FRAME HOME THAT WAS
NEARLY COMPLETED. DAMAGE
WAS SPREAD UP TO 2 MILES TO
THE NORTHEAST. LARGE PIECES
OF DEBRIS FELL THROUGH 50
TO 80 FOOT TREES 1/4 TO
1/3 MILE AWAY. WIND SPEEDS
IN THE TORNADO WERE
ESTIMATED FROM 130 TO 150
MPH WHICH PLACES IT IN
THE MIDDLE TO UPPER END OF
THE F2 SCALE. THE TORNADO
WAS APPROXIMATELY 30
YARDS WIDE. NO ONE WAS
INJURED.
350 PM 7.5 NE BURNT CHIMNEY VA WIND DAMAGE.
06/09/96 FRANKLIN TREE LIMBS BROKE OFF.
823 AM 3 SSW AXTON TO 2 S AXTON VA TORNADO.
06/10/96 HENRY THE TORNADO TORE THE SIDING
AND SHINGLES FROM A
HOUSE...DESTROYED 6
OUTBUILDINGS...DAMAGED A
BARN AND A SHED...TORE THE
ROOF OFF A HOUSE...
SEVERELY DAMAGED THE ROOF
OF ANOTHER HOUSE AND RIPPED
SHINGLES OFF ANOTHER HOME.
THE TORNADO KNOCKED DOWN
POWER LINES AND POWER
POLES AND UPROOTED A LARGE
TREE. NUMEROUS TREES WERE
SNAPPED OFF. THE TORNADO
TRAVELED 1.5 MILES BEFORE
DISSIPATING AT 827 AM. WIND
SPEEDS IN THE TORNADO WERE
ESTIMATED FROM 80 TO 90 MPH
WHICH PLACES IT IN LOW TO
MIDDLE END OF THE F1 SCALE.
THE TORNADO AVERAGED 60
YARDS WIDE...BUT WAS UP TO
90 YARDS WIDE IN ONE
PLACE. THERE WERE NO
INJURIES.
900 AM 10 NE MARTINSVILLE VA FLASH FLOOD.
06/10/96 HENRY TWO ROADS CLOSED AS A
RESULT OF FLASH FLOODING.
FLASH FLOODING CONTINUED
UNTIL 1030 AM.
915 AM W AND NW CHATHUM VA WIND DAMAGE.
06/10/96 PITTSYLVANIA WINDS BROKE OFF TREE LIMBS
AND UPROOTED TREES. ONE
LARGE TREE THAT WAS
UPROOTED FELL BETWEEN TWO
HOMES. DAMAGE WAS MINIMAL
TO BOTH HOMES. THESE WINDS
WERE ASSOCIATED WITH THE
SAME MESOCYCLONE WHICH
PRODUCED TORNADOES IN
SOUTHEAST HENRY COUNTY AND
IN NORTHEAST PITTSYLVANIA
COUNTY.
935 AM 0.5 NW RENAN VA TORNADO.
06/10/96 PITTSYLVANIA THE TORNADO BROKE OUT
WINDOWS AND TORE THE ROOF
OFF A HOUSE...DAMAGED
ANOTHER ROOF...SEVERELY
DAMAGED ONE VEHICLE...
DAMAGED TWO OTHER
VEHICLES...DAMAGED AN
ABANDONED SCHOOL...TORE THE
ROOF OFF OF TWO
OUTBUILDINGS...KNOCKED DOWN
POWER LINES AND POWER
POLES...DAMAGED ANTENNAS
AND BROKE OFF OR UPROOTED
NUMEROUS TREES. THE TORNADO
DISSIPATED AT 938 AM ONE
MILE NORTH-NORTHEAST OF
RENAN. THE TORNADO WAS ON
THE GROUND FOR
APPROXIMATELY 1.1 MILES
AND HAD AN AVERAGE WIDTH OF
40 YARDS. WIND SPEEDS IN
THE TORNADO WERE ESTIMATED
FROM 90 TO 100 MPH WHICH
PLACES IT IN THE MIDDLE OF
THE F1 SCALE. THERE WERE
NO INJURIES.
MTESpecial weather statement, Jun 11, 11:57 AM EDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
NCZ001>006-018>020-VAZ007-009>020-022>024-032>035-043>047-058- 059-WVZ042>045-121200- SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 1155 AM EDT TUE JUN 11 1996 ...THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY ACROSS NORTHWESTERN NORTH CAROLINA...SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA AND SOUTHEASTERN WEST VIRGINIA... A COMBINATION OF DAYTIME HEATING AND ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL CREATE UNSTABLE CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT. WHILE A STRONG LIFTING MECHANISM DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE PRESENT... THE INSTABILITY WILL BE STRONG ENOUGH TO ALLOW FOR SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS TO REACH SEVERE LEVELS. THE MOST FAVORABLE LOCATION FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO REACH SEVERE LEVELS IS EAST OF THE BLUE RIDGE. AS IN THE LAST SEVERAL DAYS THE THREAT OF FLOODING ALSO EXISTS UNDER ANY PERSISTANT HEAVY RAIN. WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND LOCALIZED FLOODING ...SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. NOGUEIRA
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.