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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Blacksburg, VA

May 7, 1999Roanoke County, City of Roanoke, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1999, 11:11 PM EDT for Roanoke County, City of Roanoke, Virginia. It was in force for 34 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
May 7, 1999, 11:11 PM EDT (03:11 UTC)
Expired
May 7, 1999, 11:45 PM EDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area
Whole counties

Counties City of Roanoke, VA, Roanoke County, VA

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 7, 3:05 PM EDT, 8 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 7, 3:05 PM EDT, 8 hours 6 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
305 PM EDT FRI MAY 7 1999

AWIPS VISIBILE SAT LOOP INDICATED SOME SUNSHINE ACROSS PORTION OF FA.
REGION RADAR LOOP AT 18Z DISPLAYED SOME DEVELOPMENT OF SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SW NC AND NORTHERN GA DURING THE PAST FEW
HOURS. THIS AREA LINES UP WELL WITH BETTER DEWPOINTS. 12Z MODEL RUNS
WERE SIMILIAR WITH A STRONG VORT MAX (IDENTIFY ON WATER VAPOR)
ROTATING AROUND THE BASE OF THE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH ACROSS FA TONIGHT
INTO SAT. AWIPS 5H COMBO DISPLAYED UPPER TROF SLIDING EAST DURING
THE PERIOD. SFC COLD FRONT SHOULD PUNCH EAST ACROSS CWA. DRIER AIR
NOTED BEHIND THE FRONT (CLEARLY SEEN WITH DEWPOINTS IN THE 40S)
SHOULD SLIDE EAST. NICE SATURDAY SETTING UP FOR RNK CWA. HAVE A GUD
NIGHT.

.RNK...
VA...NONE.
NC...NONE.
WV...NONE.

KK

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 7, 5:46 PM EDT, 5 hours 25 minutes before
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Local storm report, May 7, 7:20 PM EDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VIRGINIA
0720 PM EDT FRI MAY 07 1999

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

0630 PM    PEMBROKE                  VA   TREE LIMBS DOWN
05/07/99   GILES

0635 PM    NEWPORT                   VA   1.50 INCH HAIL
05/07/99   GILES                          ALSO 1 INCH HAIL COVERING
                                          GROUND REPORTED BY SPOTTER

0640 PM    4 NE PAINT BANK           VA   .75 INCH HAIL
05/07/99   CRAIG                          DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY
                                          SPOTTER

0717 PM    NEWCASTLE                 VA   .75 INCH HAIL
05/07/99   CRAIG                          REPORTED BY SPOTTER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 7, 8:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKPittsylvania50 min
May 7, 8:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKWythe63 min
May 7, 8:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKHenry36 min
May 7, 8:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKPulaski51 min
May 7, 8:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKFranklin51 min
May 7, 8:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKGiles50 min
May 7, 9:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKCampbell37 min
May 7, 10:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKCarroll33 min
May 7, 10:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKFloyd63 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.