Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2000, 5:47 PM EDT for Roanoke County, City of Salem, Virginia. It was in force for 43 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 28, 2000, 5:47 PM EDT (21:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2000, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties City of Salem, VA, Roanoke County, VA
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 49 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 994 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
707 WUUS51 KRNK 282148 SVRRNK VAC161-770-775-282230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 547 PM EDT SUN MAY 28 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ROANOKE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA... SALEM IN WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA... ROANOKE CITY IN WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 630 PM EDT. * AT 545 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF SALEM CITY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. HAIL UP TO AN INCH IN DIAMETER IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. SOME LOCATIONS THREATENED THROUGH 630 PM EDT INCLUDE SALEM AND ROANOKE CITY... REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. $$ LAT...LON 3732 8028 3722 8017 3720 7998 3740 8004 PEM NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 8:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Franklin, Henry | 22 min |
| May 27, 8:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | City of Martinsville | 22 min |
| May 27, 8:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Appomattox, Campbell | 46 min |
| May 27, 8:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania | 46 min |
| May 27, 8:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Charlotte, Halifax | 58 min |
| May 28, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alleghany, City of Covington | 52 min |
| May 28, 5:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Botetourt | 43 min |
| May 28, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Giles, Montgomery, Pulaski, City of Radford | 51 min |
| May 28, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Amherst | 46 min |
| May 28, 5:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Henry, Patrick | 59 min |
| May 28, 5:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | City of Martinsville | 59 min |
| May 28, 5:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | City of Roanoke | 43 min |
| May 28, 7:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania, City of Danville | 54 min |
| May 28, 7:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Halifax | 47 min |
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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.