Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 2005, 5:00 PM EDT for Rockbridge County, City of Buena Vista, City of Lexington, Virginia. It was in force for 48 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 14, 2005, 5:00 PM EDT (21:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 2005, 5:48 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties City of Buena Vista, VA, City of Lexington, VA, Rockbridge County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 682 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KRNK 142101 SVRRNK VAC163-530-678-142145- /O.NEW.KRNK.SV.W.0021.050514T2100Z-050514T2145Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 500 PM EDT SAT MAY 14 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BUENA VISTA IN WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA LEXINGTON IN WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA * UNTIL 545 PM EDT * AT 456 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COLLIERSTOWN...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... COLLIERSTOWN... ROCKBRIDGE BATHS... FAIRFIELD... BROWNSBURG... IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL... DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. 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 3777 7967 3757 7952 3787 7918 3806 7949 $$ WERT
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS51 KRNK 142120 SVSRNK SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 519 PM EDT SAT MAY 14 2005 VAC163-530-678-142145- /O.CON.KRNK.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-050514T2145Z/ BUENA VISTA VA-LEXINGTON VA-ROCKBRIDGE VA- 519 PM EDT SAT MAY 14 2005 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 545 PM EDT FOR ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY INCLUDING THE INDEPENDENT CITIES OF LEXINGTON AND BUENA VISTA... AT 516 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR COLLIERSTOWN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO BUENA VISTA CITY...GOSHEN...ROCKBRIDGE BATHS...CORNWALL...BELLS VALLEY... FAIRFIELD AND BROWNSBURG. IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL... DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. LAT...LON 3777 7967 3757 7952 3787 7918 3806 7949 $$ WERT
000 WWUS51 KRNK 142148 SVSRNK SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 546 PM EDT SAT MAY 14 2005 VAC163-530-678-142200- /O.EXP.KRNK.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-050514T2145Z/ BUENA VISTA VA-LEXINGTON VA-ROCKBRIDGE VA- 546 PM EDT SAT MAY 14 2005 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY INCLUDING THE INDEPENDENT TOWNS OF LEXINGTON AND BUENA VISTA EXPIRED AT 545 PM EDT... AT 545 PM EDT...THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING WAS NEAR THE TOWN OF VESUVIUS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH AND EXITING THE COUNTY. SEVERE WEATHER IS NO LONGER EXPECTED IN ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY FOR THE REST OF THE EVENING. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER WHICH MAY HAVE OCCURRED EARLIER THIS EVENING...PLEASE CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG AT...1...8 6 6...2 1 5...4 3 2 4. LAT...LON 3777 7967 3757 7952 3787 7918 3806 7949 $$ WERT
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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.