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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 209, NWS Blacksburg, VA

June 15, 1998Charlotte County, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1998, 4:18 PM EDT for Charlotte 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 15, 1998, 4:18 PM EDT (20:18 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 1998, 4:55 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Whole counties

County Charlotte County, VA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 15, 4:40 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Charlotte Court Hous, 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 15, 2:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 77 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: 972 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 160 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 177 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 15, 2:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 2:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
236 PM EDT MON JUNE 15 1998

DISC...
KFCX RADAR BACK UP ... TS FIRING ALNG BLU RDG AND OVR PIEDMONT.

A QUICK LOOK AT THE ETA ...
LOOKS LIKE 1ST H5 S/W MOVING THRU WITH MORE SIG CENTRL US SW
REACHING US TUE. LOOKS LIKE THE 2ND ONE WILL DRIVE FNTL SYS THRU.

ROA 66/86/62/85 4242
LYH 64/86/62/85 4342
DAN 65/88/64/88 4342
BLF 60/77/62/79 3214
RNK 62/79/63/80 3324

MG

In the hours before

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Local storm report, Jun 15, 4:10 PM EDT, 8 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
410 PM EDT MON JUN 15 1998

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

355 PM     BETHEL                    NC   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/15/98   CASWELL                        GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
                                          REPORTED BY FORMER
                                          COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGER.

355 PM     BETHEL                    NC   WIND DAMAGE
06/15/98   CASWELL                        LARGE TREES DOWN AND
                                          TOPS OF TREES TORN OFF
                                          REPORTED BY FORMER
                                          COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGER.

BRENNAN/CAMPBELL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 4:08 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Botetourt	32 min
Jun 15, 4:33 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Rockbridge, City of Buena Vista, City of Lexington	32 min
Jun 15, 2:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Patrick	34 min
Jun 15, 3:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Campbell, City of Lynchburg	36 min
Jun 15, 3:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Buckingham	52 min
Jun 15, 4:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Tazewell	48 min
Jun 15, 5:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Franklin	50 min
Jun 15, 12:41 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Yadkin	34 min
Jun 15, 2:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Stokes	34 min
Jun 15, 2:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Rockingham	50 min
Jun 15, 3:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Caswell	50 min
Jun 15, 3:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RNK	Caswell	52 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 1998 Every 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.