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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Blacksburg, VA

May 8, 1998Pittsylvania County, City of Danville, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1998, 10:34 AM EDT for Pittsylvania County, City of Danville, Virginia. It was in force for 66 min. 2 reports 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: May 8, 1998, 10:34 AM EDT (14:34 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 1998, 11:40 AM EDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Whole counties

Counties City of Danville, VA, Pittsylvania County, VA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 8, 11:20 AM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Blairs, VA
May 8, 11:20 AM EDT	Hail 1.75	Blairs, 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 nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 56 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: 341 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 791 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 41 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 May 8, 9:35 AM EDT, 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 8, 9:35 AM EDT, 59 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
935 AM EDT FRI MAY 8 1998

JUST GOT A REPORT OF GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL IN SOUTHEAST SURRY COUNTY.
MORNING SOUNDINGS INDICATE THAT WITH CURRENT TEMP OF 60 AND DWPT OF
55...THAT WE (BCB) HV A LI OF -4 WITH A CAPE JUST OVER 1000. FEEL
THERE IS A THREAT FOR SEVERE FOR NEXT SEVERAL HOURS INTO EARLY
AFTERNOON...MAINLY ALONG AND E OF THE MOUNTAINS AS THE COLD FRONT
CURRENTLY IN THE MOUNTAINS MOVS E.

FCST OFFICES...DO WANT YOU WANT FOR THIS AFTN...HV HAD LITTLE TIME
TO LOOK AT ANYTHING.

MTE

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 8, 9:35 AM EDT, 59 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT..CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
935 AM EDT FRI MAY 8 1998

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

915 AM     SILOAM                    NC   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/08/98   SURRY                          REPORTED BY LOCAL TV
                                          STATION.

WILF/MTE

Local storm report, May 8, 9:35 AM EDT, 59 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT..CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
935 AM EDT FRI MAY 8 1998

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

915 AM     SILOAM                    NC   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/08/98   SURRY                          REPORTED BY LOCAL TV
                                          STATION.

WILF/MTE

Local storm report, May 8, 9:55 AM EDT, 39 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT..CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
955 AM EDT FRI MAY 8 1998

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

945 AM     KING                      NC   0.88 INCH HAIL
05/08/98   STOKES                         REPORTED BY COOP
                                          OBSERVER.

WILF

Local storm report, May 8, 9:55 AM EDT, 39 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT..CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
955 AM EDT FRI MAY 8 1998

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

945 AM     KING                      NC   0.88 INCH HAIL
05/08/98   STOKES                         REPORTED BY COOP
                                          OBSERVER.

WILF

Local storm report, May 8, 10:15 AM EDT, 19 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 7, 8:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Grayson, Smyth	49 min
May 7, 9:25 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Halifax, Pittsylvania	2 hr
May 7, 9:25 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	City of Danville	2 hr
May 7, 10:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Smyth	52 min
May 7, 11:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Smyth	34 min
May 8, 1:23 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Patrick	32 min
May 8, 3:13 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Halifax	47 min
May 8, 4:22 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Patrick	53 min
May 8, 6:14 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Pulaski	31 min
May 8, 11:24 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Halifax	61 min
May 8, 11:44 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Charlotte	51 min
May 8, 12:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Campbell	49 min
May 8, 1:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Amherst	34 min
May 8, 2:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Buckingham	48 min
May 8, 2:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Pittsylvania	48 min
May 8, 3:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Halifax	35 min
May 7, 8:02 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RNK	Rockingham	33 min
May 7, 8:39 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RNK	Caswell	46 min
May 7, 9:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Ashe	48 min
May 7, 11:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Wilkes	35 min
May 8, 7:56 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Watauga	49 min
May 8, 9:00 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Surry	35 min
May 8, 9:23 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Stokes	37 min
May 8, 9:46 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Rockingham	64 min
May 8, 10:13 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Caswell	47 min

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.