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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Blacksburg, VA

June 5, 2001Pulaski County, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2001, 8:18 PM EDT for Pulaski County, Virginia. It was in force for 42 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 5, 2001, 8:18 PM EDT (00:18 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2001, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Whole counties

County Pulaski County, VA

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:21 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 5, 8:35 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Dublin, 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 109 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 272 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1252 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KRNK 060018
SVRRNK
VAC155-060100-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
818 PM EDT TUE JUN 5 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN PULASKI COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA

* UNTIL 900 PM EDT.

* AT 816 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTH OF DUBLIN...MOVING EAST AT 5   
  MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS THREATENED THROUGH 900 PM EDT INCLUDE
  DUBLIN...

<<CALL TO ACTION>>HAIL...INTENSE RAIN AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE
LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE
SMTORM PASSES.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.

.END
$$
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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Blacksburg, VA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 5, 2:42 PM EDT, 5 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 2:42 PM EDT, 5 hours 36 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG, VA
242 PM EDT TUE JUN 5 2001

RIDGE IN THE EAST AND TROF IN THE WEST WILL SHIFT OVER THE NEXT FEW
DAYS WITH A TROF IN THE EAST BY LATE IN THE WEEK.  THIS WILL PUSH
THE WARM FRONT SOUTH OF THE FA AGAIN THURSDAY. IN THE MEANTIME WE
WILL SIT IN THE WARM SECTOR AND SEE SEVERAL CONVECTION PRODUCING
S/WAVES ROLL THRU.  WILL GO WITH 30-40 POPS THRU THURSDAY AND TRY
NOT TO GET FANCY WITH TIMING.

BEYOND THURSDAY LOOKING RELATIVELY COOLER AND DRIER. WAVE ON SAT
MIGHT GET SOMETHING GOING...BUT WILL LEAVE DRY FOR NOW.

FCSTID = 9
ROA   69  87  67  77 /  30  40  30  40
LYH   65  87  65  77 /  30  40  30  40
DAN   70  90  71  80 /  40  40  30  40
BLF   63  78  60  72 /  40  40  40  40
LWB   62  77  60  72 /  40  40  40  40
BCB   65  80  63  75 /  30  40  40  40
TNB   67  81  64  75 /  40  40  40  40

.RNK...
NC...NONE.
VA...NONE.
WV...NONE.
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 5, 5:00 PM EDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG, VA
500 PM EDT TUE JUN 5 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

I452 PM     HILLSVILLE                VA   .88 INCH HAIL
06/05/01   CARROLL                        REPORTED BY SPOTTER

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Local storm report, Jun 5, 6:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
615 PM EDT TUE JUN 05 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0545 PM    BEDFORD                   VA   0.88 INCH HAIL
06/05/01   BEDFORD                        REPORTED BY SPOTTER.

Local storm report, Jun 5, 6:56 PM EDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
656 PM EDT TUE JUN 05 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

650 PM     LYNCHBURG                 VA   FLOODING
06/05/01   CAMPBELL                       DREAMING CREEK NEAR
                                          BUSINESS 460 AND
                                          LYNCHBURG EXPRESSWAY OUT
                                          OF ITS BANKS.

Local storm report, Jun 5, 7:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
710 PM EDT TUE JUN 05 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
_
505 PM     SANDSTONE                 WV   2.50 INCH HAIL
06/05/01   SUMMERS                        REPORTED
                                          BY PUBLIC.

Local storm report, Jun 5, 7:29 PM EDT, 49 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
729 PM EDT TUE JUN 05 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

700 PM     4SE RUSTBURG              VA   WIND DAMAGE
06/05/01   CAMPBELL                       TREES DOWN

629 PM     FAIRFIELD                 VA   WIND DAMAGE
06/05/01   ROCKBRIDGE                     TREES DOWN

Local storm report, Jun 5, 7:37 PM EDT, 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
737 PM EDT TUE JUN 05 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
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700 PM     TIMBERLAKE                VA   FLOODING
06/05/01   CAMPBELL                       STREET FLOODING REPORTED
                                          BY POLICE.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 8:26 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Appomattox	3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.