Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1997, 1:28 PM EDT for Bedford County, Virginia. It was in force for 47 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
- Jul 16, 1997, 1:28 PM EDT (17:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 1997, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bedford County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:31 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, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 13 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
- 922 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 961 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KROA 161732 RRB SVRRNK VAC019-161815- BULLETIN--IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 128 PM EDT WED JUL 16 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG VA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA ...EASTERN BEDFORD COUNTY AT 128 PM EDT...BLACKSBURG DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LYNCHBURG MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE FOREST AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IMMEDIATELY. NO0GUEIRA
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 16, 9:27 AM EDT, 4 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 9:27 AM EDT, 4 hours 1 minute before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 925 AM EDT WED JUL 16 1997 RECOMMENDATIONS... .RDU...WUD PREFER LOW-MID 90S PIEDMONT TODAY. .WBC...NEED TO OPEN RANGE OF MAXES E OF BLU RDG TO LOW-MID 90S. .CRW...NONE. DISCUSSION... SO FAR 88-D DRY. TEMPS CLIMBING A LTL MORE RPDLY THAN FCST... AND BELIEVE MID 90S WILL BE PREVALENT OVER PIEDMONTS VA/NC TDAY. POPS LOOK GOOD EVERYWHERE. AM SNDG LOOKS SCARY WITH 87 MAX T AND 64DP.== 4K+ CAPE. UNMODIFIED AM LI IS -5 AND CAP IS ONLY 2 DEG.... SHUD SEE SOME POTENT STORMS THIS PM. MG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 1:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania | 34 min |
| Jul 16, 2:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania | 44 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.