Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 2004, 5:46 PM EDT for Franklin County, Virginia. It was in force for 29 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
- May 22, 2004, 5:46 PM EDT (21:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2004, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Franklin County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:48 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.
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 45 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
- 1378 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
568
WUUS51 KRNK 222146
SVRRNK
VAC067-222215-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
546 PM EDT SAT MAY 22 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL FRANKLIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA
* UNTIL 615 PM EDT
* AT 543 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
CALLAWAY...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COPPER HILL...AND MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
WIRTZ BY 600 PM EDT
8 MILES NORTHWEST OF BURNT CHIMNEY BY 610 PM EDT
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
PLEASE SEND YOUR REPORTS OF PENNY OR LARGER SIZED HAIL...AS WELL AS
WIND DAMAGE...INCLUDING TREES OR LARGE LIMBS DOWNED BY CALLING THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT...1...8 6 6...2 1 5...4 3 2 4.
LAT...LON 3698 8008 3701 8013 3702 8010 3710 8012
3715 8008 3717 8001 3715 8000 3714 7995
3721 7987 3722 7978 3717 7979 3696 7979
3695 8000
$$
AMSWhat 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 May 22, 2:31 PM EDT, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 22, 2:31 PM EDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 231 PM EDT SAT MAY 22 2004 .SHORT TERM... WILL SEE SCTD/ISOLATED CONVECTION DIE WITH THE LOSS OF HEATING THIS EVENING. SUNDAY...SHOULD SEE ONLY ISOLATED MTN CONVECTION...AS TEMPS WARM A COUPLE DEGREES ALOFT...AND ONLY DIFFERENTIAL HEATING AND OROGRAPHICS SHOULD BE THE TRIGGERS FOR TSRA. MONDAY...MODELS TRYING TO SLIDE POTENTIAL MCS THROUGH THE WRN OH VLY...AND INTO SRN KY...AND EVENTUALLY INTO SW VA/NW NC/SRN WV. ATTM...WILL LEAVE CHANCE POPS IN THE WEST. TEMPS WILL REMAIN VERY WARM...ESPECIALLY OUT EAST. WARMEST WILL BE SUNDAY AFTN...AS POTENTIAL CLOUD DEBRIS MAY INHIBIT TEMPS A LITTLE MONDAY. && .LONG TERM (TUE-SAT)... MIDWEEK...A FRONTAL BOUNDARY SAGS INTO NRN FA...THEN WASHES OUT. LOOKS LIKE CONTINUED CHANCE OF SHRA/TSRA...WITH HIGHER CHANCES WEDNESDAY WITH BEST FORCING IN THE AREA. WILL KEEP CHANCES AROUND THROUGH THURSDAY WITH LEFTOVER CONVERGENCE FROM FRONTAL BOUNDARY...THEN A BREAK IN THE ACTION FRIDAY...BEFORE MORE DIURNAL ACTIVITY OCCURS SATURDAY. TEMPS DURING THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK SHOULD COOL DOWN SOME...BUT STILL HANGING AT OR ABOVE NORMAL...THEN WARMING UP TOWARD SATURDAY. && .CLIMATE... RECORD HIGHS FOR SUNDAY 05/23. POTENTIAL THERE FOR A COUPLE RECORD HIGHS TO BE APPROACHED. LOCATION RECORD/YEAR ROA 91/1957 LYH 94/1941 DAN 95/1953 BLF 83/1988 RNK 87/1953 && .RNK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NC...NONE. VA...NONE. WV...NONE. && WHP
Hazardous weather outlook, May 22, 6:00 AM EDT, 11 hours 46 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 600 AM EDT SAT MAY 22 2004 VAZ007-010>014-018>020-022>024-034-035-WVZ042>045-231000- ALLEGHANY VA-AMHERST-BATH-BEDFORD-BLAND-BOTETOURT-CRAIG-GILES- GREENBRIER-MERCER-MONROE-MONTGOMERY-PULASKI-ROANOKE-ROCKBRIDGE- SUMMERS-TAZEWELL-WYTHE- 600 AM EDT SAT MAY 22 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA... WESTERN AND CENTRAL VIRGINIA...AS WELL AS NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ONCE AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS OF WEST VIRGINIA AND WESTERN VIRGINIA. STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF BECOMING SEVERE. THE MAIN THREATS FROM ANY STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP AND BECOME SEVERE WILL BE STRONG GUSTY DOWNBURST WINDS AND EVEN SOME HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGHOUT THIS TIME PERIOD. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON. NCZ001>006-018>020-VAZ009-015>017-032-033-043>047-058-059-231000- ALLEGHANY NC-APPOMATTOX-ASHE-BUCKINGHAM-CAMPBELL-CARROLL-CASWELL- CHARLOTTE-FLOYD-FRANKLIN-GRAYSON-HALIFAX-HENRY-PATRICK-PITTSYLVANIA- ROCKINGHAM-SMYTH-STOKES-SURRY-WATAUGA-WILKES-YADKIN- 600 AM EDT SAT MAY 22 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA... WESTERN AND CENTRAL VIRGINIA...AS WELL AS NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY APPROACH SEVERE LIMITS...WITH LARGE HAIL OR DAMAGING WINDS BEING POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGHOUT THIS TIME PERIOD. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. CL
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 22, 4:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
438 PM EDT SAT MAY 22 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0300 PM HAIL ENNICE 36.55N 81.00W
05/22/2004 1.00 INCH ALLEGHANY NC PUBLIC
&&
DOCThe office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 10:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alleghany | 29 min |
| May 22, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Grayson | 49 min |
| May 22, 6:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Bedford | 55 min |
| May 22, 6:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Roanoke, City of Roanoke | 31 min |
| May 22, 6:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Botetourt | 49 min |
| May 22, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Bedford | 64 min |
| May 22, 7:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Montgomery | 36 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.