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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Blacksburg, VA

July 28, 1999City of Martinsville, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1999, 6:47 PM EDT for City of Martinsville, Virginia. It was in force for 63 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: Jul 28, 1999, 6:47 PM EDT (22:47 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 1999, 7:50 PM EDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Whole counties

County City of Martinsville, 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 Jul 28, 2:43 PM EDT, 4 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 2:43 PM EDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 28, 6:40 PM EDT, 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 28, 6:40 PM EDT, 7 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, 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
Jul 28, 4:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Monroe, Summers	47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 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.