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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 115, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2006, 5:12 PM EDT for Pittsylvania County, Virginia. It was in force for 23 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
- Jul 2, 2006, 5:12 PM EDT (21:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2006, 5:35 PM EDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pittsylvania County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:15 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
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 295 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
- 555 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -138 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1325 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 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 Jul 2, 2:47 PM EDT, 2 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 2:47 PM EDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 247 PM EDT SUN JUL 2 2006 .SHORT TERM /TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... CONVECTION FIRING EARLIER TODAY THAN SATURDAY...AND AGAIN LEE OF THE NC BLUE RIDGE AND ACROSS SE WV/HIGHLANDS. ISOLATED CONVECTION SHOULD WANE BY 23Z SIMILAR TO YESTERDAY. FORECAST CHALLENGE WILL BE PICKING OUT INDIVIDUAL SHORTWAVES MOVING ALONG WESTERLY FLOW...AND HOW FAR SOUTH THIS WILL SEND ANY CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS. SIMILAR THINKING AS YESTERDAY...IN KEEPING THE MCS MOVING ACROSS THE SRN GTLAKES INTO PA. WIND FLOW AND RIPPLE WITH THE SHORTWAVE MAY BRING SOME OF THIS CONVECTION SOUTH TOWARD THE GREENBRIER VALLEY LATE TONIGHT/MONDAY MORNING...BUT AGAIN...POPS ARE LOW. LATER IN THE DAY...SHOULD SEE INCREASED LIFT ON WEST WINDS...WITH SCATTERED/ISOLATED TSRA IN THE FAR WEST DURING THE AFTN. THINKING 12Z GFS OVERDONE WITH BULLSEYE VORT...A LA FEEDBACK ISSUES. ANOTHER ISSUE MONDAY WILL BE HOT TEMPS...BUT DEWPOINTS SHOULD BE WHERE THE HEAT INDEX WILL ONLY APPROACH 100 DEGREES OUT EAST OF LYH AND DAN. LOOKING AGAIN AT CONVECTION WANING DURING EARLY MONDAY EVENING...BUT WILL KEEP SLIGHT CHANCE OVERNIGHT IN THE FAR NW CWA...AS FRONTAL BOUNDARY SAGS FURTHER SOUTH INTO THE OH VLY. TUESDAY WILL BE A BETTER DAY FOR THUNDERSTORM CHANCES AS 8H THETA E RIDGE SETS UP ACROSS THE AREA...W-E. WESTERLY FLOW MAY AGAIN HAMPER DEVELOPEMENT IN LEE OF THE MTNS...SO EXPECT HIGHEST POPS IN THE FAR WEST AGAIN...AND COULD SEE ANOTHER MAX IN THE LEE TROUGH IN THE PIEDMONT. UPPER TROUGH BEGINS PUSHING THE FRONT FURTHER SOUTH TUESDAY NIGHT...WITH PLENTY OF ENERGY/MOISTURE TO KEEP POPS GOING ALL NIGHT TUESDAY. BEST CHANCE OF TSRA STILL APPEARS TO BE IN THE WED TIME FRAME. COULD SEE SEVERAL MCS/S TRAVERSING THE FRONT MID WEEK. WITH MORE CLOUDS AROUND...AT LEAST HIGHER LEVEL CIRRUS FROM UPSTREAM CONVECTION...TEMPS TUE WILL NOT BE AS WARM...THEN BETTER CHANCE OF RAIN WEDNESDAY WILL KEEP TEMPS DOWN IN THE 80S. && .LONG TERM /WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY/... CONTINUING WITH THE ECMWF/ENSEMBLES THROUGH THE EXTENDED LEADS TO SOLUTION CLOSE TO YESTERDAY...WHERE COLD FRONT WILL BACKDOOR THROUGH THE AREA THURSDAY...WITH LINGERING CHANCES INTO THURSDAY EVENING IN THE SOUTH. UPPER TROUGH IS PROGRESSIVE...SO EXPECT DRY WX FRI-SUN...WITH SEASONAL TEMPS...WARMING AGAIN TOWARD SUNDAY AS WE GET ON THE BACK SIDE OF HIGH PRESSURE. && .AVIATION... NO CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION HAS BEEN ADDED TO THE TAFS FOR THIS AFTERNOON SINCE COVERAGE IS EXPECTED TO BE MINOR. SHORT WAVE COMING THROUGH THE OHIO VALLEY TONIGHT WILL BRING A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TO LWB DURING THE EARLY MORNING AND WILL SPREAD VFR CEILINGS ACROSS THE NORTHERN COUNTY WARNING AREA AFTER 06Z. MVFR FOG AND HAZE ARE EXPECTED AT LYH AND DAN AGAIN TONIGHT BUT THE CEILINGS AT LWB WILL PREVENT VISIBILITIES GETTING VERY LOW DURING THE EARLY MORNING. && .RNK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... VA...NONE. NC...NONE. WV...NONE. && SHORT/LONG TERM...WHP AVIATION...AMS
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 2, 5:30 AM EDT, 11 hours 42 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 530 AM EDT SUN JUL 2 2006 NCZ001>006-018>020-VAZ007-009>020-022>024-032>035-043>047-058-059- WVZ042>045-031030- ASHE-ALLEGHANY-SURRY-STOKES-ROCKINGHAM-CASWELL-WATAUGA-WILKES- YADKIN-TAZEWELL-SMYTH-BLAND-GILES-WYTHE-PULASKI-MONTGOMERY- GRAYSON-CARROLL-FLOYD-CRAIG-BATH-ROANOKE-BOTETOURT-ROCKBRIDGE- PATRICK-FRANKLIN-BEDFORD-AMHERST-HENRY-PITTSYLVANIA-CAMPBELL- APPOMATTOX-BUCKINGHAM-HALIFAX-CHARLOTTE-MERCER-SUMMERS-MONROE- GREENBRIER- 530 AM EDT SUN JUL 2 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 NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 5:03 PM EDT, 9 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Smyth | 46 min |
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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.