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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 159, NWS Blacksburg, VA

June 3, 1998Tazewell County, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1998, 4:23 PM EDT for Tazewell County, Virginia. It was in force for 32 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 3, 1998, 4:23 PM EDT (20:23 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 1998, 4:55 PM EDT
In force: 32 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 20:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 3, 3:00 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 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-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: 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, 4:00 PM EDT, 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 4:00 PM EDT, 23 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
300 PM EST WED JUN 3 1998

SORRY FOR THE DELAY...DIDNT GO OUT WHEN I THOUGHT I SENT IT.

DISCUSSION...
***KFCX RDA STILL UP AND LOOKING OK***
SFC FRNT REMAINING TO THE SOUTH IN NRN NC AND NW FLOW PROVIDING LTL
MORE DOWNSLOPE TDY THEN YDAY...ALTOGETHER KEEPING THINGS QUITE SO
FAR.  TEMPS HAVE WARMED VERY NICELY AND DWPTS HAVE SNUCK UP A LTL.
STILL BLV SOME CONVECTION COULD DEVELOP ALONG THE FRNT IN NC MTNS
LATE THIS AFT...AS WELL AS PTS WESTWD...AND SPILL INTO THE REMAINDER
OF MAINLY THE SRN HALF OF RNK CWA DURING THE EVE HRS.  SPC COMING
OUT WITH TOR WATCH TO CLIP EXTRM SW CRNR OF CWA AND THIS LOOKS OK
GIVEN DEVELOPMENT IN SRN KY WHERE FRNT HAS LIFTED A LTL FRTHR NORTH.

OVERALL PTRN DOMINATED BY STATIONARY FRNT WITH TRIGGERS PROVIDED BY
S/WVS IN WRLY FLOW...BUT TIMING S/WVS VERY TRICKY. MDLS ALL IN
DECENT AGRMNT WITH NOT MVG THE FRNT MUCH UNTIL MAYBE LATE FRI WITH
SOME BLDG OF THE RDG AND NORTHWARD MVMT. WOULD LIKE TO SEE MORE OF A
RDG NOW TO SUPPORT OVERNIGHT MCS SCENARIO SPC DISCUSSES BUT THAT LKLY
TO STAY CLOSER TO FRNT. WITH THE XCPTN OF TMRW EPCT LATE AFT INTO EVE
WILL BE BEST TIMING NEXT CUPL DAYS...WITH SOME DYNAMICS FROM 12Z TO
18Z OVR WRN HALF OF CWA FOR A CHC MOST OF THE DAY...AND WITH 850
FLOW WSW INSTEAD OF WNW SOME WEAK OVERUNNING COULD BRING SHWRS A LTL
FURTHER N OF THE FRNT. THEREFORE WOULD LIKE TO SEE AT LEAST LOW CHC
POPS FOR NRN PARTS TMRW...PRETTY MUCH ALL DAY...AND HIGH CHC TO LKLY
POPS CLOSER TO FRNT IN SRN VA AND NW NC...NC MTNS MAY BE BEST PLACE
TO GO LKLY THURS.  GOOD CHC POPS PRBLY IN ORDER THRU FRI AND GUIDANCE
SUPPORTS THESE KINDS OF NUMBERS.

ROA 63/77/62/78 3555
LYH 60/77/60/78 2445
DAN 67/83/65/84 4555
BLF 59/72/59/73 3555
RNK 60/75/60/76 3555
BOO 55/71/56/73 5655

KEIGHTON

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 3, 2:07 PM EDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 3, 2:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 33 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, 1 hour 33 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, 3:50 PM EDT, 33 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
350 PM EDT WED JUN 3 1998

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

340 PM     JEWELL RIDGE              VA   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/03/98   TAZEWELL                       DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          BY SPOTTER.

PMC

Local storm report, Jun 3, 3:50 PM EDT, 33 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
350 PM EDT WED JUN 3 1998

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

340 PM     JEWELL RIDGE              VA   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/03/98   TAZEWELL                       DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          BY SPOTTER.

PMC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 3:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Tazewell	47 min
Jun 3, 4:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Bland	49 min
Jun 3, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Wythe	40 min
Jun 3, 4:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RNK	Wythe	34 min
Jun 3, 5:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Carroll, City of Galax	63 min
Jun 3, 5:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Pittsylvania	20 min
Jun 3, 5:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Halifax	36 min
Jun 3, 5:35 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RNK	Carroll	35 min
Jun 3, 5:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Patrick	36 min
Jun 3, 6:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Tazewell	51 min
Jun 3, 7:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Wythe	48 min
Jun 3, 7:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Halifax	30 min
Jun 3, 7:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Carroll	61 min
Jun 3, 7:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Patrick	49 min
Jun 3, 5:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Stokes	51 min
Jun 3, 6:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Rockingham	60 min
Jun 3, 6:26 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RNK	Rockingham	44 min
Jun 3, 6:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Caswell	33 min
Jun 3, 7:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Ashe	50 min
Jun 3, 7:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RNK	Ashe	52 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.