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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 148, NWS Blacksburg, VA

July 14, 2006Yadkin County, North Carolina

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2006, 5:03 PM EDT for Yadkin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 37 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 14, 2006, 5:03 PM EDT (21:03 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 2006, 5:40 PM EDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Yadkin County, NC

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:03 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 155 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2006-07-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 74 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2006-07-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 109 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
74 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-101 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
741 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
106 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 13, 7:40 PM EDT, 21 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 7:40 PM EDT, 21 hours 23 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 14, 6:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKStokes59 min
Jul 14, 7:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKSurry36 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 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.