Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 130, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1996, 2:59 PM EDT for Caswell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 61 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
- Jul 2, 1996, 2:59 PM EDT (18:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 1996, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Caswell County, NC
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:03 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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1080 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 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 Jul 2, 2:36 PM EDT, 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 2:36 PM EDT, 23 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 2, 9:57 AM EDT, 5 hours 2 minutes before
VAZ010-011-013-014-018>020-022>024-WVZ042>045-021500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 955 AM EDT TUE JUL 2 1996 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE HEADED FOR SOUTHEASTERN WEST VIRGINIA AND PARTS OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA THIS MORNING... AT 955 AM...A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS ROLLING ACROSS CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA. THESE SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO GREENBRIER...SUMMERS AND MONROE COUNTIES IN WEST VIRGINIA BY 1020 AM. THE STORMS WILL CONTINUE SOUTHEAST AND PUSH ACROSS THE VIRGINIA BORDER BETWEEN 1030 TO 1100 AM. SO...THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED IN BATH...ALLEGHANY...CRAIG...GILES AND POINTS SOUTH AND EAST LATER IN THE MORNING AND THIS AFTERNOON. BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...POSSIBLY HAIL...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WHICH COULD RAPIDLY CAUSE WATER TO COLLECT ON ROADWAYS AND IN LOW LYING AREAS. THESE STORMS COULD INTENSIFY AND SOME COULD BECOME SEVERE AS THE AFTERNOON GOES ON. IF THE STORMS DO BECOME SEVERE WARNINGS WILL BE ISSUED. MORE UPDATES WILL FOLLOW ON THESE STORMS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. KANE
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 11:52 AM EDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
NCZ001-002-VAZ007-009>020-022>024-032>035-043>047-058-059-WVZ042>045 021655- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 1150 AM EDT TUE JUL 2 1996 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN WEST VIRGINIA AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA... AT 1150 AM...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS THE MONROE...SUMMERS...GREENBRIER...AND MERCER COUNTIES IN WEST VIRGINIA AND THE ALLEGHANY HIGHLANDS OF VIRGINIA. THE STRONGEST STORMS AT 1150 AM WERE OVER MONROE COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA NORTHWEST OF UNION. ANOTHER STORM WAS JUST ENTERING TAZEWELL COUNTY VIRGINIA. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST ABOUT 30 MPH. THEY WILL CONTINUE SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND WILL LIKELY PUSH TO THE EAST OF THE BLUE RIDGE IN VIRGINIA BETWEEN 100 PM AND 200 PM. THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS OF NORTH CAROLINA COULD SEE SOME THUNDERSTORMS AFTER 130 PM. BE ALERT...SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY INTENSIFY AS THE AFTERNOON GOES ON AND WARNINGS MAY BE ISSUED. KANE
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 12:00 PM EDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before
NCZ001>006-018>020-VAZ007-009>020-022>024-032>035-043>047-058- 059-WVZ042>045-030000- SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA NOON EDT MON JUL 1 1996 ...SEVERE WEATHER POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO TONIGHT... A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS REMAINS ACROSS THE REGION. A WEAK FRONT ACROSS SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA WILL BE SLIPPING SOUTHWARD TODAY. THIS FRONT IS A FOCUS FOR SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT AS OF NOON...AND THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE NUMEROUS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS TO HAVE DAMAGING WINDS OR LARGE HAIL. THE BEST CHANCE FOR STRONG DAMAGING WINDS OR LARGE HAIL THIS AFTERNOON WILL BE ALONG THE BLUE RIDGE... AND EASTWARD INTO THE PIEDMONTS OF VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA. WITH THE EXTREMELY MOIST AIRMASS ACROSS THE REGION...MANY OF THE STORMS WILL LIKELY HAVE VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS WITH RAINFALL OF AN INCH OR TWO IN LESS THAN AN HOUR. A STRONGER COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE REGION TONIGHT...AND ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IS LIKELY. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BE SEVERE...WITH DAMAGING WINDS OR LARGE HAIL. SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY LATER THIS AFTERNOON OR THIS EVENING. JACKSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 12:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Craig | 65 min |
| Jul 2, 12:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Roanoke, City of Roanoke, City of Salem | 64 min |
| Jul 2, 1:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Giles | 62 min |
| Jul 2, 1:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Henry, City of Martinsville | 66 min |
| Jul 2, 1:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Montgomery | 65 min |
| Jul 2, 1:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Montgomery | 2 hr |
| Jul 2, 2:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Franklin | 64 min |
| Jul 2, 2:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Yadkin | 66 min |
| Jul 2, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Yadkin | 63 min |
| Jul 2, 10:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 61 min |
| Jul 2, 12:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Monroe | 62 min |
| Jul 2, 2:06 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Mercer | 2 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996
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.