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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 187, NWS Blacksburg, VA

July 19, 2006Alleghany County, Ashe County, North Carolina

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 2006, 10:00 PM EDT for Alleghany County, Ashe County, North Carolina. It was in force for 17 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 19, 2006, 10:00 PM EDT (02:00 UTC)
Expired: Jul 19, 2006, 10:17 PM EDT
In force: 17 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Alleghany County, NC, Ashe County, NC

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:01 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 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 181 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1059 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1328 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 133 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 19, 9:34 PM EDT, 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 9:34 PM EDT, 26 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 19, 3:45 PM EDT, 6 hours 15 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
345 PM EDT WED JUL 19 2006

NCZ001>006-018>020-VAZ007-009>020-022>024-032>035-043>047-058-059-
WVZ042>045-201945-
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-
345 PM EDT WED JUL 19 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...THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA
THROUGH THIS EVENING. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN
AS WELL AS ISOLATED DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS
THURSDAY INTO SUNDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER TONIGHT.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 19, 8:37 PM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 19, 8:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
840 PM EDT WED JUL 19 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0840 PM     HAIL             ELLISTON                37.22N 80.23W
07/19/2006  E0.75 INCH       MONTGOMERY         VA   AMATEUR RADIO

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Local storm report, Jul 19, 8:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 19, 8:44 PM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
844 PM EDT WED JUL 19 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0530 PM     TSTM WND DMG     YANCEYVILLE             36.41N 79.34W
07/19/2006                   CASWELL            NC   PUBLIC

            TREES DOWN IN TOWN

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Local storm report, Jul 19, 8:56 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 19, 9:13 PM EDT, 47 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 19, 8:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Giles	54 min
Jul 19, 8:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Pulaski	62 min
Jul 19, 9:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Montgomery, City of Radford	42 min
Jul 19, 9:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Carroll	50 min
Jul 20, 2:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Pulaski	54 min
Jul 20, 5:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Bath	67 min
Jul 20, 7:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Pittsylvania	50 min
Jul 19, 11:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Watauga	44 min
Jul 20, 2:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Surry	54 min
Jul 20, 5:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Rockingham	79 min
Jul 20, 6:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Caswell	79 min
Jul 19, 8:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Monroe	24 min

Nearby

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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.