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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 443, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 30, 2008, 6:28 PM EDT for Stokes County, Surry County, North Carolina. It was in force for 42 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
- Sep 30, 2008, 6:28 PM EDT (22:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 30, 2008, 7:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Stokes County, NC, Surry County, NC
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:29 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 719 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 824 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 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 Sep 30, 12:50 PM EDT, 5 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 30, 12:50 PM EDT, 5 hours 38 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 339 AM EDT TUE SEP 30 2008 NCZ001-002-018-VAZ007-009>020-WVZ042-043-010745- ASHE-ALLEGHANY NC-WATAUGA-TAZEWELL-SMYTH-BLAND-GILES-WYTHE-PULASKI- MONTGOMERY-GRAYSON-CARROLL-FLOYD-CRAIG-ALLEGHANY VA-BATH-MERCER- SUMMERS- 339 AM EDT TUE SEP 30 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...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...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NCZ003>006-019-020-VAZ022>024-032>035-043>047-058-059-010745- SURRY-STOKES-ROCKINGHAM-CASWELL-WILKES-YADKIN-ROANOKE-BOTETOURT- ROCKBRIDGE-PATRICK-FRANKLIN-BEDFORD-AMHERST-HENRY-PITTSYLVANIA- CAMPBELL-APPOMATTOX-BUCKINGHAM-HALIFAX-CHARLOTTE- 339 AM EDT TUE SEP 30 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA...NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...CENTRAL VIRGINIA...SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT TUESDAY AFTERNOON. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. WVZ044-045-010745- MONROE-GREENBRIER- 339 AM EDT TUE SEP 30 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. COLD HIGH PRESSURE SETTLING OVER THE AREA THURSDAY NIGHT MAY LEAD TO SCATTERED VALLEY FROST LATE THURSDAY NIGHT AND EARLY FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 30, 4:14 PM EDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 534 PM EDT TUE SEP 30 2008 NCZ002-003-019-302230- ALLEGHANY NC-SURRY NC-WILKES NC- 534 PM EDT TUE SEP 30 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT ALLEGHANY...SURRY AND WILKES COUNTIES... AT 529 PM EDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG A LINE FROM 6 MILES SOUTH OF ENNICE TO 5 MILES WEST OF TRAPHILL...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND PEA-SIZED HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR BARRETT...TRAPHILL...AND ROARING GAP AROUND 540 PM...CUMBERLAND KNOB...AND ROARING GAP AROUND 545 PM...LOW GAP... PLEASANT HILL...PLEASANT HILL...AND BENHAM AROUND 550 PM AND PLEASANT HILL AROUND 555 PM. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA OUTLET FOR LATER UPDATES OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. JJ
Special weather statement, Sep 30, 5:37 PM EDT, 51 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 537 PM EDT TUE SEP 30 2008 VAZ034-035-045-302230- AMHERST VA-BEDFORD VA-CAMPBELL VA- 537 PM EDT TUE SEP 30 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHERN AMHERST...NORTHEASTERN BEDFORD...NORTHERN CAMPBELL COUNTIES TO INCLUDED THE CITY OF LYNCHBURG... AT 534 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF BEDFORD CITY...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND PEA-SIZED HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR GOODE AROUND 545 PM...FOREST AROUND 555 PM... LYNCHBURG AIRPORT AROUND 600 PM...MADISON HEIGHTS AROUND 605 PM... BOCOCK AROUND 610 PM AND CONCORD AROUND 620 PM. RCS
Special weather statement, Sep 30, 6:18 PM EDT, 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 618 PM EDT TUE SEP 30 2008 NCZ003-004-302315- STOKES NC-SURRY NC- 618 PM EDT TUE SEP 30 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT STOKES AND SURRY COUNTIES... AT 616 PM EDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG A LINE FROM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF DOBSON TO 4 MILES NORTH OF ELKIN...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND HALF INCH HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR WESTFIELD AND PILOT MOUNTAIN AROUND 630 PM...WOODVILLE AROUND 645 PM...FRANCISCO AROUND 700 PM AND PINNACLE AROUND 715 PM. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA OUTLET FOR LATER UPDATES OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. JJ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 30, 6:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Patrick | 51 min |
| Sep 30, 7:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Franklin, Henry, City of Martinsville | 46 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.