Alert archive / Virginia / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 18, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 1998, 5:35 PM EDT for Carroll County, Virginia. It was in force for 35 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, 5:35 PM EDT (21:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1998, 6:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Carroll County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 104 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2315 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KROA 032135 RRA TORRNK VAC035-032210- BULLETIN--EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 535 PM EDT WED JUN 3 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CARROLL COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA. * UNTIL 610 PM EDT. * AT 538 PM EDT... BLACKSBURG DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR THE TOWN OF HILLSVILLE. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. << CALL* TO ACTION >> IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SAFETY IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK REFUGE IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. .END/DD
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, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Tazewell | 32 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, 5:44 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 |
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.