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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2006, 5:22 PM EDT for Tazewell County, Virginia. It was in force for 32 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
- Jun 1, 2006, 5:22 PM EDT (21:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2006, 5:54 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Tazewell County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 322 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
- 279 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 953 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 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 Jun 1, 3:59 PM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 3:59 PM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 351 PM EDT THU JUN 1 2006 NCZ001>006-018>020-VAZ007-009>020-022>024-032>035-043>047-058-059- WVZ042>045-021200- 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- 351 PM EDT THU JUN 1 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...TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. WHILE WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED...AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM MAY PRODUCE HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES AND WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 50 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN DEVELOP ALONG AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT TOMORROW AFTERNOON. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...WITH STRONG DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE PRIMARY HAZARD. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TOMORROW AFTERNOON. LAWRENCE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 1:49 PM EDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 257 PM EDT THU JUN 1 2006 VAZ022-023-012000- ROANOKE-BOTETOURT- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SALEM...FINCASTLE 257 PM EDT THU JUN 1 2006 ...THUNDERSTORMS TO EFFECT SALEM AND ROANOKE BETWEEN 3:00 AND 4:00 PM... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO SALEM AND ROANOKE BETWEEN 3:00 AND 4:00 PM EDT. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING VERY SLOWLY... AND WILL LIKELY RESULT IN TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS. PONDING OF WATER AND POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING IS LIKELY. IN ADDITION TO THE RAIN...EXPECT FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. FOR YOUR SAFETY...PLEASE MOVE INDOORS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORIST WILL ENCOUNTER VERY POOR VISIBILITY DUE TO THE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. WATCH FOR STOPPED TRAFFIC ON INTERSTATE 81 AND 581.
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 3:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Caswell | 55 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.