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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Blacksburg, VA

July 28, 1999Monroe County, Summers County, West Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1999, 4:48 PM EDT for Monroe County, Summers County, West Virginia. It was in force for 47 min. 4 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: Jul 28, 1999, 4:48 PM EDT (20:48 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 1999, 5:35 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Monroe County, WV, Summers County, WV

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Jul 28, 5:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Hilldale, WV
Jul 28, 5:23 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Wolf Creek, WV
Jul 28, 5:30 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Union, WV
Jul 28, 5:30 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Sinks Grove, WV

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
Jul 28, 2:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 316 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: 1152 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 911 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 Jul 28, 2:43 PM EDT, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 2:43 PM EDT, 2 hours 5 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
Jul 28, 5:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Roanoke, City of Salem	50 min
Jul 28, 5:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Montgomery	50 min
Jul 28, 5:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	City of Roanoke	50 min
Jul 28, 6:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Bedford, Campbell, City of Lynchburg	61 min
Jul 28, 6:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK		61 min
Jul 28, 6:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Amherst	34 min
Jul 28, 6:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Henry, Pittsylvania, City of Danville	63 min
Jul 28, 6:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	City of Martinsville	63 min
Jul 28, 7:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Carroll, Wythe	50 min
Jul 28, 7:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Tazewell	50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 1999 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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.