Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 109, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2006, 3:07 PM EDT for Alleghany County, City of Covington, Virginia. It was in force for 38 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
- Jun 25, 2006, 3:07 PM EDT (19:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2006, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Alleghany County, VA, City of Covington, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:07 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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 600 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 583 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
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 Jun 25, 1:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 1:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 25, 5:32 AM EDT, 9 hours 35 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 532 AM EDT SUN JUN 25 2006 NCZ001>004-018>020-VAZ007-009>020-022>024-032>035-043-WVZ042>045- 260945- ASHE-ALLEGHANY-SURRY-STOKES-WATAUGA-WILKES-YADKIN-TAZEWELL-SMYTH- BLAND-GILES-WYTHE-PULASKI-MONTGOMERY-GRAYSON-CARROLL-FLOYD-CRAIG- BATH-ROANOKE-BOTETOURT-ROCKBRIDGE-PATRICK-FRANKLIN-BEDFORD- AMHERST-HENRY-MERCER-SUMMERS-MONROE-GREENBRIER- 532 AM EDT SUN JUN 25 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA...NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...CENTRAL VIRGINIA... SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING. THE MOST LIKELY AREAS FOR ANY FLOODING TODAY WILL BE ALONG AND JUST EAST OF THE BLUE RIDGE. ALTHOUGH RAINFALL RATES OF 2 TO 3 INCHES PER HOUR WITH ANY OF THE STRONGER STORMS WILL BE HEAVY ENOUGH TO SHARPLY RAISE THE CHANCE OF FLOODING ANYWHERE IN THE REGION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY MORE RAIN IS EXPECTED MONDAY AND TUESDAY. RAINFALL AMOUNTS DURING THIS TWO DAY PERIOD MAY BE ENOUGH TO BRING SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS UP AND POSSIBLY CAUSE SOME FLOODING. THE THREAT OF FLOODING WILL DEPEND ON TODAYS RAINFALL AND WILL BE ASSESSED AS MORE INFORMATION COMES IN TODAY AND TONIGHT. OTHERWISE NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS MAY BE CONTACTED FOR FLOODING INFORMATION OR RAINFALL AMOUNTS. NCZ005-006-VAZ044>047-058-059-260945- ROCKINGHAM-CASWELL-PITTSYLVANIA-CAMPBELL-APPOMATTOX-BUCKINGHAM- HALIFAX-CHARLOTTE- 532 AM EDT SUN JUN 25 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA...CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY MORE RAIN IS EXPECTED MONDAY AND TUESDAY. RAINFALL AMOUNTS DURING THIS TWO DAY PERIOD MAY BE ENOUGH TO BRING SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS UP AND POSSIBLY CAUSE SOME FLOODING. THE THREAT OF FLOODING WILL DEPEND ON TODAYS RAINFALL AND WILL BE ASSESSED AS MORE INFORMATION COMES IN TODAY AND TONIGHT. OTHERWISE NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 1:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 130 PM EDT SUN JUN 25 2006 VAZ019-020-WVZ045-251830- BATH VA-GREENBRIER WV-ALLEGHANY VA- 130 PM EDT SUN JUN 25 2006 ...INSERT HEADLINE... AT 130 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 11 MILES WEST OF MARLINTON TO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEOLA...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THE LINE OF STORMS WILL BE NEAR NEOLA AT 200 PM EDT...CARLOOVER AND CALLISON AT 215 PM EDT...MOUNTAIN GROVE AND INGALLS FIELD AT 225 PM EDT...AND HOT SPRINGS AT 230 PM EDT... RAINFALL AMOUNTS UP TO AN INCH AND A HALF ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. THIS MAY RESULT IN PONDING OF WATER IN POOR DRAINAIGE AND LOW LYING AREAS. KK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 4:37 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Henry, City of Martinsville | 3 hr |
| Jun 25, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alleghany, City of Covington | 37 min |
| Jun 25, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Giles | 28 min |
| Jun 25, 6:11 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Alleghany, Craig, City of Covington | 3 hr |
| Jun 25, 7:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Grayson | 3 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006
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.