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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Blacksburg, VA

June 19, 2023Campbell County, Halifax County, Pittsylvania County, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2023, 2:08 PM EDT for Campbell County, Halifax County, Pittsylvania County, Virginia. It was in force for 67 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 19, 2023, 2:08 PM EDT (18:08 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2023, 3:15 PM EDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Campbell County, VA, Halifax County, VA, Pittsylvania County, VA

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:11 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 nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 265 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1100 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 8 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 19, 1:33 PM EDT, 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 1:33 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 19, 4:26 AM EDT, 9 hours 42 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Blacksburg VA
426 AM EDT Mon Jun 19 2023

NCZ005-006-VAZ007-009>014-017>020-022>024-033>035-043>047-058-059-
WVZ042>044-507-508-200830-
Rockingham-Caswell-Tazewell-Smyth-Bland-Giles-Wythe-Pulaski-
Montgomery-Floyd-Craig-Alleghany VA-Bath-Roanoke-Botetourt-
Rockbridge-Franklin-Bedford-Amherst-Henry-Pittsylvania-Campbell-
Appomattox-Buckingham-Halifax-Charlotte-Mercer-Summers-Monroe-
Eastern Greenbrier-Western Greenbrier-
426 AM EDT Mon Jun 19 2023

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

.DAY ONE...Today and tonight.

Showers and scattered thunderstorms this afternoon into tonight may
bring heavy rainfall. Localized flooding is possible.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday.

Showers and thunderstorms through the remainder of the week may
cause localized flooding.

.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>004-018>020-VAZ015-016-032-200830-
Ashe-Alleghany NC-Surry-Stokes-Watauga-Wilkes-Yadkin-Grayson-Carroll-
Patrick-
426 AM EDT Mon Jun 19 2023

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

.DAY ONE...Today and tonight.

Showers and scattered thunderstorms will move across the area today
into tonight. Some of the storms may become strong to severe with
isolated damaging winds possible. Also, heavy downpours from multiple
rounds of rain may lead to localized flooding.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday.

Showers and thunderstorms will continue through the week. Torrential
downpours on increasingly wet ground may lead to more of a flooding
threat.

.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

Local storm report, Jun 19, 1:16 PM EDT, 52 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 19, 1:35 PM EDT, 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 19, 1:38 PM EDT, 30 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 19, 1:40 PM EDT, 28 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 19, 1:46 PM EDT, 22 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 19, 1:52 PM EDT, 16 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 19, 11:09 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Patrick	36 min
Jun 19, 12:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Patrick	45 min
Jun 19, 12:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Henry, City of Martinsville	49 min
Jun 19, 12:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Giles	23 min
Jun 19, 12:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Patrick	28 min
Jun 19, 1:02 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Floyd, Franklin, Henry, Patrick, City of Martinsville	6 hr
Jun 19, 1:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	City of Martinsville	31 min
Jun 19, 1:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Franklin, Henry, City of Martinsville	24 min
Jun 19, 1:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Appomattox	52 min
Jun 19, 1:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Franklin, Henry, Pittsylvania, City of Martinsville	64 min
Jun 19, 2:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Buckingham	56 min
Jun 19, 2:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Pittsylvania, City of Danville	77 min
Jun 19, 2:40 PM EDT	Flood Watch	RNK	Carroll, Floyd, Grayson, Patrick, City of Galax	72 hr
Jun 19, 2:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Bedford	18 min
Jun 19, 2:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	City of Lynchburg	17 min
Jun 19, 3:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Appomattox, City of Lynchburg	13 min
Jun 19, 3:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Halifax	26 min
Jun 19, 3:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Buckingham	22 min
Jun 19, 3:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Campbell	34 min
Jun 19, 3:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Amherst, Appomattox	14 min
Jun 19, 3:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Buckingham	24 min
Jun 19, 4:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Appomattox, Campbell, Charlotte	28 min
Jun 19, 4:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Appomattox, Charlotte	3 hr
Jun 19, 11:48 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Stokes	27 min
Jun 19, 12:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Stokes	37 min
Jun 19, 1:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Rockingham	68 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.