Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2003, 1:33 PM EDT for Charlotte County, Virginia. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 2003, 1:33 PM EDT (17:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2003, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Charlotte County, VA
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:33 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 12:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 596 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 594 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
493
WUUS51 KRNK 121733
SVRRNK
VAC037-121800-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
133 PM EDT THU JUN 12 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN CHARLOTTE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA
* UNTIL 200 PM EDT.
* AT 132 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF REDOAK...MOVING EAST AT 25
MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS THREATENED THROUGH 200 PM EDT INCLUDE
REDOAK...
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING UP TO PENNY SIZE
HAIL.
HAIL...INTENSE RAIN AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS
STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.
RELAY SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING TOLL FREE...1...8 6 6...2 1 5...4 3 2 4.
LAT...LON 3693 7848 3689 7850 3674 7862 3673 7867
3675 7868 3676 7866 3685 7866 3690 7871
3696 7848
$$
09The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 9:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Patrick | 62 min |
| Jun 12, 1:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania, City of Danville | 61 min |
| Jun 12, 1:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Henry, City of Martinsville | 32 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.