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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Blacksburg, VA

June 10, 1996Campbell County, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 1996, 10:16 AM EDT for Campbell County, Virginia. It was in force for 59 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 10, 1996, 10:16 AM EDT (14:16 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 1996, 11:15 AM EDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Whole counties

County Campbell County, VA

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:19 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, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 36 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: 125 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 782 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KROA 101418
TORRNK
VAC031-101515-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
1016 AM EDT MON JUN 10 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG VA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA

   ...EASTERN CAMPBELL COUNTY
 
AT 1012 AM EDT...A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS. THE STORM IS 15 MILES
SOUTH OF RUSTBURG OR 1 MILE SOUTH OF LONG ISLAND
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 34 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE IN THE VICINITY OF...
 LONG ISLAND                     AROUND 1014 AM EDT
 HAT CREEK                       AROUND 1030 AM EDT
 MIKE                            AROUND 1037 AM EDT

DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO.  CARS ARE EASILY
TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS.  IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OFA
TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING.  IF NO STURDY
STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SAFETY IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.

GILLEN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 12:27 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Montgomery	118 min
Jun 10, 2:15 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Floyd, Montgomery	3 hr
Jun 10, 8:10 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Roanoke, City of Salem	4 hr
Jun 10, 8:10 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	City of Roanoke	4 hr
Jun 10, 8:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Henry	65 min
Jun 10, 8:19 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	RNK	Henry	31 min
Jun 10, 8:28 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	RNK	Pittsylvania	47 min
Jun 10, 8:43 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Henry, City of Martinsville	3 hr
Jun 10, 9:13 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	RNK	Pittsylvania	47 min
Jun 10, 10:01 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Pittsylvania	34 min
Jun 10, 10:04 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Campbell	61 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.