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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Blacksburg, VA

June 14, 2022Rockingham County, Stokes County, North Carolina

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2022, 2:07 AM EDT for Rockingham County, Stokes County, North Carolina. It was in force for 23 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 14, 2022, 2:07 AM EDT (06:07 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2022, 2:30 AM EDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Rockingham County, NC, Stokes County, NC

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 37 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: 1821 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1676 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 47 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 14, 1:45 AM EDT, 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 1:45 AM EDT, 22 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 14, 12:21 AM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 14, 1:03 AM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 14, 1:12 AM EDT, 55 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 14, 1:24 AM EDT, 43 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 14, 1:27 AM EDT, 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 14, 1:41 AM EDT, 26 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 14, 2:00 AM EDT, 7 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 13, 10:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	RNK	Giles	73 min
Jun 13, 10:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Bland, Tazewell	80 min
Jun 13, 10:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	RNK	Bland, Giles, Pulaski, Tazewell, Wythe	76 min
Jun 13, 11:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	RNK	Alleghany, Bath, Botetourt, Craig, Giles, Montgomery and 1 more	61 min
Jun 13, 11:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Smyth, Tazewell	44 min
Jun 13, 11:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	RNK	Alleghany, Amherst, Bath, Bedford, Botetourt, Craig and 13 more	64 min
Jun 13, 11:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Pulaski	31 min
Jun 14, 12:16 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Grayson, Smyth, Wythe	29 min
Jun 14, 12:32 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Smyth	28 min
Jun 14, 12:42 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Floyd, Patrick	33 min
Jun 14, 12:50 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Franklin	25 min
Jun 14, 12:52 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Floyd, Franklin, Henry, Patrick	53 min
Jun 14, 1:03 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Smyth	27 min
Jun 14, 1:24 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Pittsylvania	36 min
Jun 14, 1:27 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Henry, City of Martinsville	33 min
Jun 14, 3:39 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Bland, Giles, Smyth, Tazewell	36 min
Jun 14, 4:13 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Bland, Smyth, Tazewell	32 min
Jun 14, 4:26 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Bland, Smyth, Tazewell	3 hr
Jun 14, 4:49 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Bland, Carroll, Grayson, Smyth, Tazewell, Wythe and 1 more	56 min
Jun 14, 6:16 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Alleghany, City of Covington	44 min
Jun 14, 7:02 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Alleghany, Botetourt, Craig, Giles, Roanoke, City of Covington	28 min
Jun 14, 7:27 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Amherst, Rockbridge, City of Buena Vista, City of Lexington, City of Lynchburg	33 min
Jun 14, 8:16 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Bland, Giles, Pulaski, Wythe	29 min
Jun 14, 8:44 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Carroll, Grayson, Pulaski, Smyth, Wythe, City of Galax	31 min
Jun 14, 8:54 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Floyd, Franklin, Montgomery, Patrick, City of Martinsville, City of Radford	36 min
Jun 14, 11:53 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Alleghany, Bath	52 min
Jun 14, 12:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Alleghany, Bath, Rockbridge, City of Buena Vista, City of Lexington	23 min
Jun 14, 12:35 PM EDT	Flood Watch	RNK	Alleghany, Amherst, Bath, Bedford, Botetourt, Rockbridge and 3 more	4 hr
Jun 14, 12:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Amherst, Botetourt, City of Buena Vista	30 min
Jun 14, 12:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Alleghany, Bath	31 min
Jun 14, 1:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Bedford, Botetourt, Campbell, City of Lynchburg	38 min
Jun 14, 1:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Bedford, Campbell, Franklin, Halifax, Pittsylvania	38 min
Jun 14, 1:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Bath	24 min
Jun 14, 1:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Halifax, Pittsylvania	31 min
Jun 14, 1:12 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Stokes	33 min
Jun 14, 1:41 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Stokes	49 min
Jun 14, 5:42 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Alleghany, Ashe, Wilkes	33 min
Jun 14, 5:49 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Alleghany, Ashe, Watauga, Wilkes	41 min
Jun 14, 7:46 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Mercer	29 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.