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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 157, NWS Blacksburg, VA

June 3, 1998Tazewell County, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1998, 3:33 PM EDT for Tazewell County, Virginia. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report 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
Jun 3, 1998, 3:33 PM EDT (19:33 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 1998, 4:20 PM EDT
In force
47 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 19:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 3, 3:40 PM EDTHail 1.75Jewell Ridge, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 3, 3:00 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 1998-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 1998-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 131 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1727 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
82 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
131 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
301 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Jun 3, 3:11 PM EDT, 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 3:11 PM EDT, 22 minutes before
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In the hours before

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Local storm report, Jun 3, 2:50 PM EDT, 43 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
250 PM EDT WED JUN 3 1998

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

700 PM     EDEN                      NC   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/02/98   ROCKINGHAM                     DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          BY SPOTTER.

710 PM     EDEN                      NC   WIND DAMAGE
06/02/98   ROCKINGHAM                     LARGE TREE DOWN. SEVERAL
                                          SMALL TREES AND BRANCHES
                                          BROUGHT DOWN. LOTS OF DEBRIS
                                          THROUGHOUT  THE CITY OF EDEN.
                                          POWER LINES DOWN.

725 PM     EDEN                      NC   FLASH FLOODING
06/02/98   ROCKINGHAM                     MEADOW ROAD WITHIN CITY OF
                                          EDEN REPORTED BY SHERIFFS
                                          OFFICE AND LOCAL RESIDENT.
                                          MORE THAN ONE INCH OF RAIN
                                          IN LESS THAN 1/2 HOUR.
PMC
Local storm report, Jun 3, 2:50 PM EDT, 43 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
250 PM EDT WED JUN 3 1998

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

700 PM     EDEN                      NC   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/02/98   ROCKINGHAM                     DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          BY SPOTTER.

710 PM     EDEN                      NC   WIND DAMAGE
06/02/98   ROCKINGHAM                     LARGE TREE DOWN. SEVERAL
                                          SMALL TREES AND BRANCHES
                                          BROUGHT DOWN. LOTS OF DEBRIS
                                          THROUGHOUT  THE CITY OF EDEN.
                                          POWER LINES DOWN.

725 PM     EDEN                      NC   FLASH FLOODING
06/02/98   ROCKINGHAM                     MEADOW ROAD WITHIN CITY OF
                                          EDEN REPORTED BY SHERIFFS
                                          OFFICE AND LOCAL RESIDENT.
                                          MORE THAN ONE INCH OF RAIN
                                          IN LESS THAN 1/2 HOUR.
PMC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 4:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKBland49 min
Jun 3, 4:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKTazewell32 min
Jun 3, 4:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKWythe40 min
Jun 3, 4:46 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKWythe34 min
Jun 3, 5:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKCarroll, City of Galax63 min
Jun 3, 5:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKPittsylvania20 min
Jun 3, 5:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKHalifax36 min
Jun 3, 5:35 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKCarroll35 min
Jun 3, 5:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKPatrick36 min
Jun 3, 6:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKTazewell51 min
Jun 3, 7:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKWythe48 min
Jun 3, 7:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKHalifax30 min
Jun 3, 7:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKCarroll61 min
Jun 3, 7:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKPatrick49 min
Jun 3, 5:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKStokes51 min
Jun 3, 6:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKRockingham60 min
Jun 3, 6:26 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKRockingham44 min
Jun 3, 6:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKCaswell33 min
Jun 3, 7:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKAshe50 min
Jun 3, 7:48 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKAshe52 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.