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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 184, NWS Blacksburg, VA

June 22, 20085 counties in Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2008, 12:15 PM EDT for 5 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 75 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 22, 2008, 12:15 PM EDT (16:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 2008, 1:30 PM EDT
In force: 75 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Carroll County, VA, City of Galax, VA, Grayson County, VA, Smyth County, VA, Wythe County, VA

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:16 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.

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 21, 7:22 PM EDT, 16 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 7:22 PM EDT, 16 hours 53 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
Jun 22, 12:18 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Amherst, Bedford, Botetourt, Rockbridge, City of Buena Vista	46 min
Jun 22, 1:57 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Amherst, Bedford, Rockbridge, City of Buena Vista	63 min
Jun 22, 12:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Bedford, Botetourt, Franklin, Roanoke, City of Roanoke	55 min
Jun 22, 1:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Carroll, Pulaski, Wythe	57 min
Jun 22, 1:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Botetourt, Craig, Roanoke	66 min
Jun 22, 1:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Montgomery, City of Radford	61 min
Jun 22, 1:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Carroll, Grayson, City of Galax	52 min
Jun 22, 1:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Bedford, Botetourt, Roanoke	61 min
Jun 22, 1:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Bedford, Franklin, Roanoke, City of Roanoke, City of Salem	56 min
Jun 22, 2:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Alleghany, Botetourt, City of Covington	60 min
Jun 22, 2:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Bland, Giles	64 min
Jun 22, 2:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Carroll, Patrick	35 min
Jun 22, 2:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Bland, Smyth, Tazewell, Wythe	58 min
Jun 22, 2:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Bedford, Campbell, Franklin, Pittsylvania	65 min
Jun 22, 2:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Franklin, Henry, Patrick, City of Martinsville	42 min
Jun 22, 2:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Smyth, Tazewell	32 min
Jun 22, 3:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Giles	35 min
Jun 22, 3:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Bath	29 min
Jun 22, 3:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Alleghany	57 min
Jun 22, 3:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Appomattox, Bedford, Campbell, Halifax, Pittsylvania, City of Lynchburg	64 min
Jun 22, 4:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Halifax	61 min
Jun 22, 4:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Appomattox, Campbell, Charlotte	64 min
Jun 22, 5:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Charlotte, Halifax, Pittsylvania	67 min
Jun 22, 5:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Charlotte	47 min
Jun 22, 7:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Bland, Tazewell	54 min
Jun 22, 7:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Grayson	50 min
Jun 22, 7:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Bland, Tazewell	56 min
Jun 22, 7:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Bland, Craig, Giles, Montgomery, Pulaski, City of Radford	54 min
Jun 22, 7:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Amherst, Appomattox, Buckingham, Campbell, City of Lynchburg	33 min
Jun 22, 12:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Alleghany, Ashe, Wilkes	68 min
Jun 22, 12:53 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Ashe	6 hr
Jun 22, 1:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Alleghany, Ashe, Wilkes	59 min
Jun 22, 2:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Wilkes	56 min
Jun 22, 2:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Caswell, Rockingham	59 min
Jun 22, 5:11 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Greenbrier, Summers	4 hr
Jun 22, 5:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Greenbrier	28 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.