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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Blacksburg, VA

June 2, 2022Charlotte County, Halifax County, Pittsylvania County, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2022, 3:50 PM EDT for Charlotte County, Halifax County, Pittsylvania County, Virginia. It was in force for 36 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 2, 2022, 3:50 PM EDT (19:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2022, 4:26 PM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Charlotte County, VA, Halifax County, VA, Pittsylvania County, VA

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 2, 1:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 119 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: 986 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1298 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 21 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 2, 2:56 PM EDT, 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 2:56 PM EDT, 54 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 2, 2:17 PM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Blacksburg VA
217 PM EDT Thu Jun 2 2022

VAZ018>020-023-024-034-035-045>047-WVZ044-031830-
Craig-Alleghany VA-Bath-Botetourt-Rockbridge-Bedford-Amherst-
Campbell-Appomattox-Buckingham-Monroe-
217 PM EDT Thu Jun 2 2022

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 303 IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS
EVENING...

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Virginia, south
central Virginia, southwest Virginia, west central Virginia and
southeast West Virginia.

.DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight.

Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the
Internet for more information about the following hazards.

   Severe Thunderstorm Watch.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday.

Hazardous weather is not expected at this time.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not expected at this time.

NCZ001>006-018>020-VAZ007-009>017-022-032-033-043-044-058-059-WVZ042-
043-507-508-031830-
Ashe-Alleghany NC-Surry-Stokes-Rockingham-Caswell-Watauga-Wilkes-
Yadkin-Tazewell-Smyth-Bland-Giles-Wythe-Pulaski-Montgomery-Grayson-
Carroll-Floyd-Roanoke-Patrick-Franklin-Henry-Pittsylvania-Halifax-
Charlotte-Mercer-Summers-Eastern Greenbrier-Western Greenbrier-
217 PM EDT Thu Jun 2 2022

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for north central North Carolina,
northwest North Carolina, south central Virginia, southwest
Virginia, west central Virginia and southeast West Virginia.

.DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight.

Scattered showers and thunderstorms are expected this afternoon and
evening. Some of the storms may be strong to severe with the primary
threat of damaging wind. Localized flooding is possible.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday.

There is a low probability for widespread hazardous weather.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not expected at this time.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 2, 3:20 PM EDT, 30 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 2, 3:21 PM EDT, 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 2, 3:24 PM EDT, 26 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 2, 3:43 PM EDT, 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 2, 3:44 PM EDT, 6 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 2, 3:47 PM EDT, 3 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 2, 12:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Tazewell	47 min
Jun 2, 12:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Tazewell	37 min
Jun 2, 1:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Tazewell	38 min
Jun 2, 1:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Bath	26 min
Jun 2, 1:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Patrick	35 min
Jun 2, 2:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Alleghany, Craig	42 min
Jun 2, 2:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Craig, Montgomery, Roanoke, City of Radford	23 min
Jun 2, 2:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Bath	31 min
Jun 2, 2:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Franklin	24 min
Jun 2, 2:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Alleghany, City of Covington	29 min
Jun 2, 2:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Franklin, Henry, Patrick	57 min
Jun 2, 2:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Alleghany, Bath, Botetourt, Rockbridge, City of Covington, City of Lexington	62 min
Jun 2, 2:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Roanoke, City of Roanoke, City of Salem	30 min
Jun 2, 2:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Henry, Patrick	58 min
Jun 2, 3:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Smyth	55 min
Jun 2, 3:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Franklin, Henry, Pittsylvania, City of Martinsville	54 min
Jun 2, 3:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Henry	24 min
Jun 2, 3:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Amherst, Rockbridge, City of Buena Vista, City of Lexington, City of Lynchburg	36 min
Jun 2, 3:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Amherst, Bedford, Botetourt, Rockbridge, City of Buena Vista, City of Lexington	48 min
Jun 2, 3:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Smyth, Wythe	38 min
Jun 2, 4:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Appomattox, Buckingham, Campbell, Charlotte	32 min
Jun 2, 4:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Amherst, Appomattox, Buckingham	57 min
Jun 2, 4:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Amherst, Appomattox, Campbell	43 min
Jun 2, 4:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Carroll	46 min
Jun 2, 5:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Carroll, Floyd, Patrick	55 min
Jun 2, 6:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	City of Roanoke, City of Salem	49 min
Jun 2, 7:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	City of Martinsville	33 min
Jun 2, 7:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Montgomery	37 min
Jun 2, 7:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Bedford	33 min
Jun 2, 7:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Halifax	44 min
Jun 2, 1:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Wilkes	27 min
Jun 2, 2:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Stokes	34 min
Jun 2, 2:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Wilkes	26 min
Jun 2, 3:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Surry, Wilkes, Yadkin	64 min
Jun 2, 3:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Rockingham, Stokes	61 min
Jun 2, 4:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Surry, Wilkes, Yadkin	65 min
Jun 2, 4:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Person	28 min
Jun 2, 5:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Surry, Yadkin	41 min
Jun 2, 6:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Stokes	39 min
Jun 2, 6:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Rockingham	53 min
Jun 2, 5:55 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Summers	35 min
Jun 2, 12:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Greenbrier	31 min
Jun 2, 12:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Mercer	47 min
Jun 2, 1:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Greenbrier	31 min
Jun 2, 1:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Mercer, Monroe, Summers	30 min
Jun 2, 1:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Greenbrier	34 min
Jun 2, 1:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Monroe	32 min
Jun 2, 6:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Greenbrier, Summers	43 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.