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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 209, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 7, 2023, 11:14 PM EDT for Franklin County, Henry County, Virginia. It was in force for 46 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 7, 2023, 11:14 PM EDT (03:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 2023, 12:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Franklin County, VA, Henry County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 323 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
- 661 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -157 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1589 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 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 7, 7:54 PM EDT, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 7, 7:54 PM EDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Blacksburg VA 138 PM EDT Thu Sep 7 2023 NCZ003>006-019-020-VAZ022>024-032>035-043>047-058-059-081745- Surry-Stokes-Rockingham-Caswell-Wilkes-Yadkin-Roanoke-Botetourt- Rockbridge-Patrick-Franklin-Bedford-Amherst-Henry-Pittsylvania- Campbell-Appomattox-Buckingham-Halifax-Charlotte- 138 PM EDT Thu Sep 7 2023 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...This afternoon and tonight. Showers and thunderstorms are expected this afternoon and evening as a cold front nears the area. Damaging wind gusts will be the main threat. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday. Showers and thunderstorms are expected again Friday afternoon and evening as a cold front crosses the area. Damaging wind gusts will be the main threat, along with locally heavy rainfall. Showers and thunderstorms may bring locally heavy rainfall to the area for the weekend. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed. Reports should be submitted by phone by calling 1-866-215-4324, social media, by email at rnk.skywarn@noaa.gov or online at www.weather.gov/rnk. NCZ001-002-018-VAZ007-009>020-WVZ042>044-507-508-081745- Ashe-Alleghany NC-Watauga-Tazewell-Smyth-Bland-Giles-Wythe-Pulaski- Montgomery-Grayson-Carroll-Floyd-Craig-Alleghany VA-Bath-Mercer- Summers-Monroe-Eastern Greenbrier-Western Greenbrier- 138 PM EDT Thu Sep 7 2023 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northwest North Carolina, southwest Virginia, west central Virginia and southeast West Virginia. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Showers and thunderstorms are expected this afternoon and evening as a cold front nears the area. Damaging wind gusts will be the main concern, along with locally heavy rainfall. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday. Showers and thunderstorms are expected again Friday afternoon and evening as a cold front crosses the area. Damaging wind gusts will be the main threat, along with locally heavy rainfall. Showers and thunderstorms may bring locally heavy rainfall to the area for the weekend. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed. Reports should be submitted by phone by calling 1-866-215-4324, social media, by email at rnk.skywarn@noaa.gov or online at www.weather.gov/rnk.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 7, 10:29 PM EDT, 45 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 9:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Carroll, Floyd, Pulaski | 65 min |
| Sep 7, 10:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | City of Martinsville | 27 min |
| Sep 7, 10:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Franklin, Henry, City of Martinsville | 67 min |
| Sep 7, 10:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Franklin | 17 min |
| Sep 7, 10:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Floyd | 25 min |
| Sep 7, 11:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Franklin | 25 min |
| Sep 7, 11:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | City of Roanoke | 31 min |
| Sep 8, 12:37 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | City of Lynchburg | 23 min |
| Sep 8, 5:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Smyth, Tazewell | 43 min |
| Sep 8, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Halifax | 26 min |
| Sep 8, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Campbell, Charlotte, Halifax | 58 min |
| Sep 8, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Franklin, Pittsylvania | 36 min |
| Sep 8, 7:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Appomattox | 64 min |
| Sep 8, 7:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Appomattox | 46 min |
| Sep 8, 7:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Campbell | 35 min |
| Sep 8, 7:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Campbell, City of Lynchburg | 43 min |
| Sep 8, 7:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Appomattox, Buckingham | 67 min |
| Sep 7, 8:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Yadkin | 26 min |
| Sep 7, 8:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alleghany, Ashe, Surry, Wilkes, Yadkin | 56 min |
| Sep 7, 8:37 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RNK | Alleghany, Wilkes | 3 hr |
| Sep 7, 8:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Surry, Wilkes, Yadkin | 61 min |
| Sep 7, 9:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Wilkes | 25 min |
| Sep 7, 9:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alleghany, Ashe, Watauga, Wilkes | 29 min |
| Sep 7, 10:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Stokes | 16 min |
| Sep 8, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Caswell, Rockingham | 59 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.