Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1997, 6:57 PM EDT for Tazewell County, Virginia. It was in force for 48 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 13, 1997, 6:57 PM EDT (22:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1997, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tazewell County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 802 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KROA 132300 SVRRNK VAC185-132345- BULLETIN--IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 657 PM EDT FRI JUN 13 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG VA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA ...TAZEWELL COUNTY AT 657 PM EDT...BLACKSBURG DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 40 MILES WEST OF BLUEFIELD OR 5 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF GLEN BURKE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED TO REACH... RAVEN AROUND 710 PM EDT JEWELL RIDGE AROUND 715 PM EDT BANDY AROUND 730 PM EDT AMONATE AROUND 740 PM EDT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IMMEDIATELY. GILLEN
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 Jun 13, 2:03 PM EDT, 4 hours 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 2:03 PM EDT, 4 hours 54 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 200 PM EDT FRI JUN 13 1997 RECOMMENDATIONS... NONE. DISCUSSION... WELL... TS DVLPMT OCCURRING NORTHRN FRINGES OF OUR CWA SO FAR. AM BGNG TO HAVE DOUBTS THAT WE'LL SEE TOO MUCH IN THE WAY OF TS ACTIVITY THIS AFTN ELSEWHERE IN LIGHT OF THE WV SAT IMAGERY. MSTR AVLBL CONFINED TO LWR LAYERS AND ANY STORM DVLPG SHUD BE NON-SVR PULSE TYPE. MDLS SIMILAR IN TAKING SRN STRM S/W ACROSS AREA DURG SAT. NGM STRNGR IN FORCING FRONTAL SYSTEM SOUTH OF AREA, BUT EVEN ETA DRIVES IT ACRS N CAROLINA BY SUN AM. SO... FCST OF INCRG CLDS/GUD CHC TS/SHRA ACRS AREA ON SAT LOOKS LIKE BEST BET. MAY SEE MSTLY CLDY CNDNS OVER WRN CWA SAT AM ... DEPENDING ON AMTS OF CNVCTV DEBRIS AVAILABLE FM IL/KY MCS. PRTL CLRG NRN SCTNS SAT NITE / CONTD CHC SHRA/TS OVER SRN PART AREA SUN NGT / AND THEN PT CLDY SUN W/LITTLE/NO CHC PCPN WOULD BE MY CALL. ROA 63/77/59/75 3630 LYH 64/79/60/76 3640 DAN 66/80/62/79 4740 BLF 58/74/57/73 5820 MG
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 6:51 PM EDT, 6 minutes before
NCZ001>003-018>020-140455- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 650 PM EDT FRI JUN 13 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN OKLAHOMA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INCLUDING THE NORTHWEST MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1 AM EDT. THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE INCLUDED IN THE WATCH...ASHE... ALLEGHANY...SURRY...WATAUGA...WILKES AND YADKIN. SOME LARGER CITIES AND TOWNS INCLUDED ARE BOONE...DOBSON AND WILKESBORO. AT 650 PM...A COMPLEX OF FAST MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WAS TRACKING ACROSS EASTERN TENNESSEE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. THE FIRST THUNDERSTORMS FROM THIS COMPLEX WILL NOT REACH NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA UNTIL AFTER 8 PM. HOWEVER...RESIDENTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS AHEAD OF THE MAIN AREA. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO FORM AS STRONG LOW LEVEL WINDS INTERACT WITH THE WARM...HUMID AIR AT THE SURFACE. STAY ALERT TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS EVENING. IF SEVERE WEATHER THREATENS YOUR AREA...MOVE TO THE INTERIOR OF A STURDY BUJILDING AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. STAY TUNED TO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA OUTLET FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. DESROSIERS
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 6:53 PM EDT, 4 minutes before
NCZ001>003-018>020-140455- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED EXPIRATION TIME NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 650 PM EDT FRI JUN 13 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN OKLAHOMA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INCLUDING THE NORTHWEST MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1200 MIDNIGHT. THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE INCLUDED IN THE WATCH...ASHE... ALLEGHANY...SURRY...WATAUGA...WILKES AND YADKIN. SOME LARGER CITIES AND TOWNS INCLUDED ARE BOONE...DOBSON AND WILKESBORO. AT 650 PM...A COMPLEX OF FAST MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WAS TRACKING ACROSS EASTERN TENNESSEE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. THE FIRST THUNDERSTORMS FROM THIS COMPLEX WILL NOT REACH NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA UNTIL AFTER 8 PM. HOWEVER...RESIDENTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS AHEAD OF THE MAIN AREA. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO FORM AS STRONG LOW LEVEL WINDS INTERACT WITH THE WARM...HUMID AIR AT THE SURFACE. STAY ALERT TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS EVENING. IF SEVERE WEATHER THREATENS YOUR AREA...TMOVE TO THE INTERIOR OF A STURDY BUILDING AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. STAY TUNED TO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA OUTLET FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. DESROSIERS
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.