Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 153, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 2006, 6:14 PM EDT for Greenbrier County, West Virginia. It was in force for 60 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 18, 2006, 6:14 PM EDT (22:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2006, 7:14 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Greenbrier County, WV
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:14 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -256 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1599 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 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 18, 2:20 PM EDT, 3 hours 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 2:20 PM EDT, 3 hours 54 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 18, 5:44 AM EDT, 12 hours 30 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 544 AM EDT TUE JUL 18 2006 NCZ003>006-019-020-VAZ022>024-032>035-043>047-058-059-191000- SURRY-STOKES-ROCKINGHAM-CASWELL-WILKES-YADKIN-ROANOKE-BOTETOURT- ROCKBRIDGE-PATRICK-FRANKLIN-BEDFORD-AMHERST-HENRY-PITTSYLVANIA- CAMPBELL-APPOMATTOX-BUCKINGHAM-HALIFAX-CHARLOTTE- 544 AM EDT TUE JUL 18 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA...NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...CENTRAL VIRGINIA... SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT HOT WEATHER WILL CONTINUE TODAY. HIGHS THIS AFTERNOON WILL BE IN THE MID TO UPPER 90S. THE HEAT INDEX WILL BE AROUND 100 IN THE FOOTHILLS...AND 100 TO 105 IN THE PIEDMONT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. NCZ001-002-018-VAZ007-009>020-WVZ042>045-191000- ASHE-ALLEGHANY-WATAUGA-TAZEWELL-SMYTH-BLAND-GILES-WYTHE-PULASKI- MONTGOMERY-GRAYSON-CARROLL-FLOYD-CRAIG-BATH-MERCER-SUMMERS-MONROE- GREENBRIER- 544 AM EDT TUE JUL 18 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT HOT WEATHER WILL CONTINUE TODAY. HIGHS THIS AFTERNOON WILL BE IN THE MID 80S TO MID 90S. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY 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 18, 5:04 PM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 504 PM EDT TUE JUL 18 2006 WVZ045-182215- GREENBRIER- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...LEWISBURG 504 PM EDT TUE JUL 18 2006 ...HEAVY RAIN OVER WESTERN GREENBRIER COUNTY... PERSISTENT THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER MONONGAHELA NATIONAL FOREST IN WESTERN GREENBRIER COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF TROUT. RADAR WAS ESTIMATING AS MUCH AS 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS FALLEN NORTH OF TROUT SINCE ABOUT 4PM...AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP IN THE VICINITY. THIS HEAVY RAINFALL MAY CAUSE SOME MINOR FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS IN THE AREA. IF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUES...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MAY BE NEEDED. KEEP AN EYE ON AREA CREEKS AND STREAMS FOR RAPIDLY RISING WATER.
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West 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.