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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 267, NWS Blacksburg, VA

October 11, 2006Grayson County, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 11, 2006, 8:22 PM EDT for Grayson County, 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
Oct 11, 2006, 8:22 PM EDT (00:22 UTC)
Expired
Oct 11, 2006, 9:00 PM EDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Grayson County, VA

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 135 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2006-10-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 128 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2006-10-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 170 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
128 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
835 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
170 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
209 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.6

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 12, 4:37 AM EDTFreeze WatchRNKAlleghany, Amherst, Appomattox, Bath, Bedford, Bland and 23 more35 hr
Oct 12, 2:38 PM EDTFreeze WarningRNKAlleghany, Bath, City of Covington17 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.