Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 2000, 3:33 PM EDT for City of Buena Vista, Virginia. It was in force for 42 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
- May 19, 2000, 3:33 PM EDT (19:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2000, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County City of Buena Vista, VA
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 61 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
- 43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -202 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1181 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
261 WUUS51 KRNK 191932 SVRRNK VAC163-530-678-192015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 333 PM EDT FRI MAY 19 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BUENA VISTA IN WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA... LEXINGTON IN WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA... ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 415 PM EDT * AT 333 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COLLIERSTOWN...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THREATENED THROUGH 415 PM EDT INCLUDE COLLIERSTOWN... GLASGOW... <<CALL TO ACTION>>IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL... DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. NNNN SN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Botetourt | 42 min |
| May 19, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rockbridge, City of Lexington | 42 min |
| May 19, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Amherst | 52 min |
| May 19, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Amherst, Appomattox, Buckingham | 46 min |
| May 19, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Giles | 49 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.