Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 13, 1996, 7:13 PM EDT for Montgomery County, Pulaski County, City of Radford, Virginia. It was in force for 32 min. 3 reports 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
- Apr 13, 1996, 7:13 PM EDT (23:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 13, 1996, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties City of Radford, VA, Montgomery County, VA, Pulaski County, VA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 7:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Pulaski, VA | |
| Apr 13, 7:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Radford, VA | |
| Apr 13, 7:32 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 53 | Blacksburg, VA |
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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2198 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 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 Apr 13, 2:58 PM EDT, 4 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 13, 2:58 PM EDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG, VA 300 PM EDT SAT APR 13 1996 RECOMMENDATIONS... NONE DISC. 88D SHOWING AREA SHWRS/TRW'S DVLPG WEST OF FA AT 250 PM. NOT MUCH IN WAY OF DISC, AS EVERYTHING IS PROGRESSING ABOUT LIKE FORECAST. ROA 55/73/50/69 60/0/10/40 MG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 6:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Smyth | 65 min |
| Apr 13, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Wythe | 50 min |
| Apr 13, 7:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Floyd | 47 min |
| Apr 13, 7:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Franklin, Roanoke, City of Roanoke, City of Salem | 40 min |
Nearby
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.