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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 229, NWS Blacksburg, VA

June 26, 2008Bland County, Giles County, Tazewell County, Virginia; Mercer County, West Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2008, 2:41 PM EDT for Bland County, Giles County, Tazewell County, Virginia; Mercer County, West Virginia. It was in force for 64 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 26, 2008, 2:41 PM EDT (18:41 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2008, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Bland County, VA, Giles County, VA, Tazewell County, VA, Mercer County, WV

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:40 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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 144 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1557 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 71 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 Jun 26, 2:10 PM EDT, 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 2:10 PM EDT, 31 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 26, 6:48 AM EDT, 7 hours 53 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
648 AM EDT THU JUN 26 2008

NCZ001>006-018>020-VAZ007-009>020-022>024-032>035-043>047-058-059-
WVZ042>045-271100-
ASHE-ALLEGHANY NC-SURRY-STOKES-ROCKINGHAM-CASWELL-WATAUGA-WILKES-
YADKIN-TAZEWELL-SMYTH-BLAND-GILES-WYTHE-PULASKI-MONTGOMERY-GRAYSON-
CARROLL-FLOYD-CRAIG-ALLEGHANY VA-BATH-ROANOKE-BOTETOURT-ROCKBRIDGE-
PATRICK-FRANKLIN-BEDFORD-AMHERST-HENRY-PITTSYLVANIA-CAMPBELL-
APPOMATTOX-BUCKINGHAM-HALIFAX-CHARLOTTE-MERCER-SUMMERS-MONROE-
GREENBRIER-
648 AM EDT THU JUN 26 2008

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL NORTH
CAROLINA...NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...CENTRAL VIRGINIA...SOUTH
CENTRAL VIRGINIA...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND
SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT WILL BRING THE THREAT OF STRONG TO
POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA SATURDAY AND SUNDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME...BUT MAY BE
NEEDED THIS WEEKEND.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 26, 2:14 PM EDT, 27 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
214 PM EDT THU JUN 26 2008

VAZ007-010-WVZ042-261915-
BLAND VA-TAZEWELL VA-MERCER WV-
214 PM EDT THU JUN 26 2008

AT 211 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF TAZEWELL...OR ABOUT OVER
TIPTOP...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE
NEAR...BOISSEVAIN AT 225 PM EDT...POCAHONTAS...AND COALDALE AT 230 PM
EDT...BLUEFIELD...AND PINNACLE ROCK STATE PARK AT 235 PM
EDT...BLUEFIELD...MERCER CO AIRPORT AT 240 PM EDT...SANDLICK...AND
MATOAKA AT 245 PM EDT...CERES AT 250 PM EDT.

EXPECT SMALL HAIL AND OCCASIONAL CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IN THE
PATH OF THIS STORM.

LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA OUTLET FOR
UPDATES ON THIS DEVELOPING SITUATION.

PEM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 3:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Bland, Craig, Giles, Montgomery, Pulaski	67 min
Jun 26, 4:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Floyd, Montgomery, Pulaski, Roanoke, City of Radford	48 min
Jun 26, 4:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Bedford, Botetourt, Craig, Montgomery, Roanoke, City of Roanoke and 1 more	56 min
Jun 26, 4:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Carroll, Patrick	46 min
Jun 26, 5:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Carroll, Floyd, Patrick	80 min
Jun 26, 5:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Bedford, Botetourt, Franklin, Roanoke, City of Roanoke	60 min
Jun 26, 6:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Bedford, Campbell, Franklin, Pittsylvania	54 min
Jun 26, 6:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Franklin, Henry, Patrick, Pittsylvania, City of Martinsville	78 min
Jun 26, 6:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Campbell, Halifax, Pittsylvania	54 min
Jun 26, 7:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Carroll, Montgomery, Pulaski, Wythe	53 min
Jun 26, 7:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Charlotte, Halifax	55 min
Jun 26, 2:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Wilkes	53 min
Jun 26, 3:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Ashe, Watauga, Wilkes	67 min
Jun 26, 4:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Surry, Yadkin	59 min
Jun 26, 5:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Rockingham, Stokes, Surry	53 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 2008 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 2008 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008

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.