Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Blacksburg, VA
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 8:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Rural 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.
- 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
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
NNNNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 8:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pulaski, City of Radford | 32 min |
| Jun 14, 9:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pulaski, Wythe | 36 min |
| Jun 14, 9:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Carroll | 42 min |
| Jun 14, 9:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Patrick | 46 min |
| Jun 14, 10:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Smyth | 27 min |
| Jun 15, 2:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Carroll | 36 min |
| Jun 15, 3:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Carroll | 52 min |
| Jun 15, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Botetourt, Rockbridge | 40 min |
| Jun 15, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | City of Lexington | 40 min |
| Jun 15, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | City of Buena Vista | 40 min |
| Jun 15, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alleghany, Botetourt | 35 min |
| Jun 15, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Halifax | 39 min |
| Jun 15, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania | 43 min |
| Jun 15, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Campbell, Halifax, Pittsylvania | 39 min |
| Jun 15, 7:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania, City of Danville | 41 min |
| Jun 15, 7:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Henry, City of Martinsville | 51 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.