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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 198, NWS Blacksburg, VA

June 13, 1998Buckingham County, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1998, 3:08 PM EDT for Buckingham County, Virginia. It was in force for 37 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 13, 1998, 3:08 PM EDT (19:08 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1998, 3:45 PM EDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area
Whole counties

County Buckingham County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 13, 3:10 PM EDTHail 2.75Buckingham, 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 13, 1:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr

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 13, 9:36 AM EDT, 5 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 9:36 AM EDT, 5 hours 32 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
935 AM EDT SAT JUNE 13 1998

WBC...MAY WANT TO LOWER RANGE FOR MAXS TODAY TO MU80S FOR THE ROA
GRP BASED ON COOLER H8 TEMPS AND MORNING SOUNDINGS.  MIXING TO NEAR
FRIDAYS DEPTH WOULD GIVE ROA 85ISH.

CRW...STILL COULD SEE A FEW TSTMS IN THE NRV THIS AFTERNOON...BUT
THINK PARTLY SUNNY BETTER THAN CLOUDY.  CC OR VC SEEMS GOOD FOR SERN
WV AND MOUNTAIN EMPIRE OF VA.

RDU...PARTLY SUNNY SEEMS BETTER FOR NW NC WITH THE SCATTERED
CONVECTION.

DISCUSSION...

88D INDICATING MOST OF THE SHOWERS WEAKENING ATTM...EXCEPT FOR NEW
BATCH OF THUNDER FORMING IN EASTERN TN AND MOVING INTO WATAUGA
COUNTY.  SAT PIX HAS PLENTY OF HOLES IN IT OVER THE CWA.

LOW LEVEL CLOUDS IN ERN KY AND CENTRAL AND WESTERN WV SPREADING
EASTWARD IN WESTERLY FLOW AND WILL LIKELY KEEP UPSLOPE COUNTIES IN
SERN WV AND PERHAPS SMYTH/TAZEWELL COUNTIES IN LOTS OF CLOUDS FOR
THE AFTERNOON...LIMITING CHANCES FOR ORGANIZED OR STRONG CONVECTION
THERE.

FARTHER TO THE EAST...STILL SOME QUESTIONS. WHILE WESTERLY FLOW MAY
DAMPEN CONVECTION CHANCES IN THE VA FOOTHILLS AND WESTWARD...FARTHER
EAST AND SOUTH INTO NC...HIGH DEWPOINTS AND AIRFLOW RECOVERING FROM
SHARPER DOWNSLOPING TO THE WEST..WE MAY STILL SEE STRONG CONVECTION
CONVECTION INTO EARLY THIS AFTERNOON BEFORE BEST DYNAMICS PASS TO
THE EAST BY LATE LATE IN THE AFTERNOON.

FINAL THOUGHT...H8 TEMPS AND MIXING DEPTH FROM FRIDAY SUGGESTING
THAT U80S MAY BE A LONG SHOT FOR ROA/LYH GRPING.

NOGUEIRA

In the hours before

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 1:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKBath48 min
Jun 13, 2:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKHalifax49 min
Jun 13, 2:46 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKHalifax34 min
Jun 13, 2:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKCharlotte34 min
Jun 13, 3:03 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKMercer, Summers52 min
Jun 13, 3:15 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKGreenbrier35 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.