Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2012, 4:10 PM EDT for Bland County, Giles County, Pulaski County, Virginia; Mercer County, Monroe County, West Virginia. It was in force for 65 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 2012, 4:10 PM EDT (20:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2012, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bland County, VA, Giles County, VA, Pulaski County, VA, Mercer County, WV, Monroe County, WV
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:12 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 1044 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1230 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
240 WUUS51 KRNK 032010 SVRRNK VAC021-071-155-WVC055-063-032115- /O.NEW.KRNK.SV.W.0091.120503T2010Z-120503T2115Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 410 PM EDT THU MAY 3 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EXTREME EAST CENTRAL BLAND COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA... GILES COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA... EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN MERCER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA... EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA... EXTREME NORTHWESTERN PULASKI COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 515 PM EDT * AT 407 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR THESSALIA...OR 4 MILES SOUTH OF NARROWS...AND MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... PEARISBURG...POPLAR HILL...NARROWS...BANE...KIMBALLTON... THESSALIA...WHITE GATE...EGGLESTON...INTERIOR... PEMBROKE AND CHAPEL. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. && LAT...LON 3746 8061 3729 8055 3712 8093 3730 8096 TIME...MOT...LOC 2007Z 248DEG 8KT 3727 8081 $$
2 follow-up statements
967
WWUS51 KRNK 032025
SVSRNK
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
425 PM EDT THU MAY 3 2012
VAC021-032125-
/O.CAN.KRNK.SV.W.0091.000000T0000Z-120503T2115Z/
BLAND VA-
425 PM EDT THU MAY 3 2012
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
EXTREME EAST CENTRAL BLAND COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF
THE WARNED AREA. THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
LAT...LON 3729 8055 3717 8082 3717 8083 3733 8090
3746 8062 3745 8061
TIME...MOT...LOC 2024Z 248DEG 8KT 3728 8077
$$
VAC071-155-WVC055-063-032115-
/O.CON.KRNK.SV.W.0091.000000T0000Z-120503T2115Z/
GILES VA-PULASKI VA-MERCER WV-MONROE WV-
425 PM EDT THU MAY 3 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 PM
EDT FOR
GILES...EXTREME NORTHWESTERN PULASKI...EXTREME
SOUTHEASTERN MERCER AND EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN MONROE
COUNTIES...
AT 421 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR THESSALIA...OR 3
MILES SOUTHWEST OF PEARISBURG...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
PEARISBURG...POPLAR HILL...NARROWS...BANE...KIMBALLTON...THESSALIA...
EGGLESTON...INTERIOR AND PEMBROKE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES
PER HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY
RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY
LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 3729 8055 3717 8082 3717 8083 3733 8090
3746 8062 3745 8061
TIME...MOT...LOC 2021Z 248DEG 8KT 3728 8077
$$058
WWUS51 KRNK 032110
SVSRNK
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
510 PM EDT THU MAY 3 2012
VAC071-155-WVC055-063-032120-
/O.EXP.KRNK.SV.W.0091.000000T0000Z-120503T2115Z/
PULASKI VA-GILES VA-MONROE WV-MERCER WV-
510 PM EDT THU MAY 3 2012
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN MERCER...
SOUTHWESTERN MONROE...CENTRAL GILES AND NORTH CENTRAL PULASKI
COUNTIES EXPIRES AT 515 PM EDT...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND THE WARNING
WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.
IF YOU OBSERVED SEVERE WEATHER INCLUDING DAMAGING WINDS OR LARGE
HAIL...PLEASE CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL
FREE 1...8 7 7...6 3 3...6 7 7 2...OR NOTIFY YOUR NEAREST LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN BLACKSBURG.
LAT...LON 3729 8055 3717 8082 3717 8083 3733 8090
3746 8062 3745 8061
TIME...MOT...LOC 2110Z 248DEG 8KT 3732 8064
$$
11The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 1:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Grayson | 34 min |
| May 3, 1:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Grayson | 39 min |
| May 3, 2:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Grayson | 36 min |
| May 3, 3:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Floyd | 26 min |
| May 3, 3:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Wythe | 32 min |
| May 3, 3:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Carroll, Grayson, Wythe | 53 min |
| May 3, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Carroll, Floyd | 34 min |
| May 3, 3:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Pulaski | 32 min |
| May 3, 4:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Floyd | 31 min |
| May 3, 4:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Carroll, Floyd, Montgomery, Pulaski, Wythe, City of Radford | 51 min |
| May 3, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Giles | 39 min |
| May 3, 5:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Floyd | 30 min |
| May 3, 6:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Franklin | 32 min |
| May 3, 6:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Botetourt | 28 min |
| May 3, 6:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Bedford, Franklin, Pittsylvania | 48 min |
| May 3, 6:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Botetourt | 27 min |
| May 3, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alleghany, Amherst, Botetourt, Rockbridge, City of Buena Vista, City of Lexington | 28 min |
| May 3, 7:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Bedford | 28 min |
| May 3, 7:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Pittsylvania | 33 min |
| May 3, 6:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Greenbrier | 33 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 2012Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 2012Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2012
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.