Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2000, 5:13 PM EDT for Halifax County, Virginia. It was in force for 32 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
- Jun 3, 2000, 5:13 PM EDT (21:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2000, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Halifax County, VA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 5:20 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Virgilina, VA | |
| Jun 3, 5:30 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Virginia, VA | |
| Jun 3, 5:40 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Virgilina, VA | |
| Jun 3, 5:44 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Virgilina, 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 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, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 360 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 793 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
664 WUUS51 KRNK 032115 SVRRNK VAC083-032145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 513 PM EDT SAT JUN 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS EXTENDED THE * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HALIFAX COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 545 PM EDT. * AT 510 PM EDT...SPOTTERS REPORTED GOLFBALL TO BASEBALL SIZE HAIL 5 MILES SOUTH OF SOUTH BOSTON. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. HAIL UP TO 2.75 INCHES IN DIAMETER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. SOME LOCATIONS THREATENED THROUGH 545 PM EDT INCLUDE VIRGILINA... REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. $$ LAT...LON 3677 7883 3666 7901 3634 7877 3648 7852 PEM NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 8:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Henry | 45 min |
| Jun 2, 8:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Charlotte | 40 min |
| Jun 2, 8:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania | 34 min |
| Jun 2, 8:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Halifax | 50 min |
| Jun 2, 9:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania, City of Danville | 45 min |
| Jun 2, 9:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Charlotte | 35 min |
| Jun 3, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Patrick | 40 min |
| Jun 3, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Halifax | 60 min |
| Jun 3, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania | 34 min |
| Jun 3, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Bedford, Franklin | 40 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.