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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Blacksburg, VA

June 14, 2000Wythe County, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2000, 8:34 PM EDT for Wythe County, Virginia. It was in force for 26 min. 1 report 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 14, 2000, 8:34 PM EDT (00:34 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 2000, 9:00 PM EDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area
Whole counties

County Wythe County, VA

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 14, 8:40 PM EDTThunderstorm WindRural Retreat, 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 nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 141 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2000-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 518 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2000-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 89 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
518 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-146 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1360 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
126 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

101 
WUUS51 KRNK 150035
SVRRNK
VAC197-150100-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
834 PM EDT WED JUN 14 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEAST WYTHE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...

* UNTIL 900 PM EDT.

* AT 833 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR PATTERSON...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS THREATENED THROUGH 900 PM EDT INCLUDE   
    BARREN SPRINGS...

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.

$$
LAT...LON 3701 8087 3685 8093 3688 8078 3695 8083
JDS
NNNN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 8:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKPulaski, City of Radford32 min
Jun 14, 9:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKPulaski, Wythe36 min
Jun 14, 9:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKCarroll42 min
Jun 14, 9:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKPatrick46 min
Jun 14, 10:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKSmyth27 min
Jun 15, 2:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKCarroll36 min
Jun 15, 3:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKCarroll52 min
Jun 15, 3:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKBotetourt, Rockbridge40 min
Jun 15, 3:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKCity of Lexington40 min
Jun 15, 3:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKCity of Buena Vista40 min
Jun 15, 4:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKAlleghany, Botetourt35 min
Jun 15, 5:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKHalifax39 min
Jun 15, 5:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKPittsylvania43 min
Jun 15, 6:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKCampbell, Halifax, Pittsylvania39 min
Jun 15, 7:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKPittsylvania, City of Danville41 min
Jun 15, 7:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKHenry, City of Martinsville51 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.