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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 106, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 2005, 4:12 PM EDT for Montgomery County, Pulaski County, City of Radford, Virginia. It was in force for 49 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
- Aug 5, 2005, 4:12 PM EDT (20:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2005, 5:01 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties City of Radford, VA, Montgomery County, VA, Pulaski County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:12 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 nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 1463 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1227 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Aug 5, 2:54 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 2:54 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 5, 11:52 AM EDT, 4 hours 20 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 1152 AM EDT FRI AUG 5 2005 NCZ001>006-018>020-VAZ015>017-032>035-043>047-058-059-061600- ASHE-ALLEGHANY-SURRY-STOKES-ROCKINGHAM-CASWELL-WATAUGA-WILKES- YADKIN-GRAYSON-CARROLL-FLOYD-PATRICK-FRANKLIN-BEDFORD-AMHERST- HENRY-PITTSYLVANIA-CAMPBELL-APPOMATTOX-BUCKINGHAM-HALIFAX- CHARLOTTE- 1152 AM EDT FRI AUG 5 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA...NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA... SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA...CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS LATER SATURDAY WHICH MAY PRODUCE AREAS OF HEAVY RAINFALL AND STRONG WINDS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. VAZ007-009>014-018>020-022>024-WVZ042>045-061600- TAZEWELL-SMYTH-BLAND-GILES-WYTHE-PULASKI-MONTGOMERY-CRAIG- ALLEGHANY-BATH-ROANOKE-BOTETOURT-ROCKBRIDGE-MERCER-SUMMERS-MONROE- GREENBRIER- 1152 AM EDT FRI AUG 5 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE DEVELOPING LATE TODAY INTO THIS EVENING AS A COLD FRONT PUSHES SLOWLY INTO THE AREA. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG DOWNBURST WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY SCATTERED STORMS ARE MORE LIKELY SATURDAY AFTERNOON WHICH MAY AGAIN PRODUCE AREA OF HEAVY RAINFALL AND STRONG DOWNBURST WINDS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 2:14 PM EDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 214 PM EDT FRI AUG 5 2005 NCZ003-VAZ016-051915- CARROLL VA-SURRY NC- 214 PM EDT FRI AUG 5 2005 ...PULSE THUNDERSTORMS OVER CARROLL AND SURRY COUNTIES... AT 211 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FANCY GAP...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 5 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PEA TO DIME SIZE HAIL...GUSTY WINDS OF 45 MPH AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. RCS
Local storm report, Aug 5, 3:12 PM EDT, 1 hour before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 327 PM EDT FRI AUG 5 2005 VAZ018-052030- CRAIG VA- 327 PM EDT FRI AUG 5 2005 ...PULSE THUNDERSTORMS OVER CRAIG COUNTY... AT 322 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES NORTH OF SINKING CREEK...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 5 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PEA TO DIME SIZE HAIL...GUSTY WINDS UP TO 45 MPH AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. RCS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 2:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Carroll | 34 min |
| Aug 5, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Botetourt | 50 min |
| Aug 5, 1:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Wilkes | 34 min |
| Aug 5, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 51 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005
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.