Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 131, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1996, 4:42 PM EDT for Yadkin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 63 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 1996, 4:42 PM EDT (20:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 1996, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Yadkin County, NC
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:42 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 4:45 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Yadkinville, NC |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 155 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, 2 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 2:36 PM EDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 2, 11:52 AM EDT, 4 hours 50 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, 4 hours 42 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
Local storm report, Jul 2, 3:01 PM EDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
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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, 2:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Caswell | 61 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.