Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Blacksburg, VA

June 2, 1997City of Galax, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1997, 12:06 PM EDT for City of Galax, Virginia. It was in force for 64 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 2, 1997, 12:06 PM EDT (16:06 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 1997, 1:10 PM EDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Whole counties

County City of Galax, VA

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:05 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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 112 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: 719 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 709 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KROA 021608 RRA
SVRRNK
VAC035-197-640-021710-

BULLETIN--IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
1206 PM EDT MON JUN 2 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG VA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 110 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA

   ...CARROLL COUNTY
   ...WYTHE COUNTY

IN SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA THE INDEPENDENT CITY OF

   ...GALAX
 
AT 1205 PM EDT...BLACKSBURG DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM IN THE VICINITY OF GALAX MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 25
MPH.

SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED TO REACH...
 BYLLESBY                        AROUND 1220 PM EDT
 GALAX HILLSVILLE AIRPORT        AROUND 1225 PM EDT
 IVANHOE                         AROUND 1230 PM EDT
 COLEMAN STORE                   AROUND 1235 PM EDT
 WYTHEVILLE                      AROUND 1240 PM EDT

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL.  MOVE bTO INSIDE A
STURDY BUILDING IMMEDIATELY.

MV

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 8:14 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Rockbridge, City of Lexington	3 hr
Jun 1, 8:14 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	City of Buena Vista	3 hr
Jun 1, 10:09 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Roanoke, City of Roanoke	4 hr
Jun 1, 10:09 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	City of Salem	4 hr
Jun 1, 11:03 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Rockbridge, City of Buena Vista	4 hr
Jun 1, 11:03 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	City of Lexington	4 hr
Jun 2, 11:34 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Grayson	51 min
Jun 2, 12:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Carroll, Wythe	64 min
Jun 2, 12:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Pulaski	65 min
Jun 2, 1:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Patrick	61 min
Jun 2, 1:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Wythe	32 min
Jun 2, 1:58 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Pulaski	62 min
Jun 2, 1:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Pulaski	62 min
Jun 2, 2:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Montgomery, City of Radford	64 min
Jun 2, 3:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Montgomery	33 min
Jun 2, 3:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Floyd	50 min
Jun 2, 4:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Patrick	62 min
Jun 2, 5:22 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Floyd	58 min
Jun 2, 6:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Henry	65 min
Jun 2, 6:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	City of Martinsville	65 min
Jun 2, 6:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Botetourt	47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 1997 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.