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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 2025, 12:06 PM EDT for 4 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 54 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
- Mar 16, 2025, 12:06 PM EDT (16:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 2025, 1:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Damage threat
- Considerable
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
Counties Greenbrier County, WV, Mercer County, WV, Monroe County, WV, Summers County, WV
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 892 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 427 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 866 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
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 Mar 16, 11:50 AM EDT, 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 16, 11:50 AM EDT, 16 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Blacksburg VA 405 AM EDT Sun Mar 16 2025 NCZ001-002-018-VAZ007-009-010-012-015-WVZ042-043-508-170815- Ashe-Alleghany NC-Watauga-Tazewell-Smyth-Bland-Wythe-Grayson-Mercer- Summers-Western Greenbrier- 405 AM EDT Sun Mar 16 2025 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northwest North Carolina, southwest Virginia and southeast West Virginia. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Wind Advisory. Strong to severe storms are possible today, along with heavy rainfall. The primary threat is damaging wind. The secondary risks are isolated tornadoes. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. There is a low probability for widespread hazardous weather. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Weather spotters are requested to report any damage caused by winds in their area. NCZ003-004-019-020-VAZ011-013-014-016>020-022>024-032>035-WVZ044-507- 170815- Surry-Stokes-Wilkes-Yadkin-Giles-Pulaski-Montgomery-Carroll-Floyd- Craig-Alleghany VA-Bath-Roanoke-Botetourt-Rockbridge-Patrick- Franklin-Bedford-Amherst-Monroe-Eastern Greenbrier- 405 AM EDT Sun Mar 16 2025 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for north central North Carolina, northwest North Carolina, central Virginia, south central Virginia, southwest Virginia, west central Virginia and southeast West Virginia. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Wind Advisory. Isolated to scattered severe thunderstorms capable of producing damaging wind gusts are possible today, especially this afternoon. An isolated tornado cannot be ruled out. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. There is a low probability for widespread hazardous weather. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Weather spotters are requested to report any damage caused by winds in their area. NCZ005-006-VAZ043>047-058-059-170815- Rockingham-Caswell-Henry-Pittsylvania-Campbell-Appomattox-Buckingham- Halifax-Charlotte- 405 AM EDT Sun Mar 16 2025 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 5 AM EARLY THIS MORNING TO 2 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for north central North Carolina, central Virginia and south central Virginia. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Wind Advisory. Thunderstorms with strong to locally damaging wind gusts and the potential for a brief tornado are possible today. Hail is also possible. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. There is a low probability for widespread hazardous weather. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Weather spotters are requested to report hail of any size, as well as any damage caused by thunderstorm winds in their area.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 16, 7:54 AM EDT, 4 hours 12 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 9:32 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RNK | Carroll, Grayson, Wythe, City of Galax | 3 hr |
| Mar 16, 11:51 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Tazewell | 39 min |
| Mar 16, 11:57 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Buckingham | 33 min |
| Mar 16, 12:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Bland | 64 min |
| Mar 16, 1:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Bland, Giles, Grayson, Smyth, Wythe | 77 min |
| Mar 16, 3:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Craig | 24 min |
| Mar 16, 3:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Bath | 27 min |
| Mar 16, 3:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Craig, Pulaski, City of Radford | 32 min |
| Mar 16, 3:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Craig | 16 min |
| Mar 16, 4:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Pulaski, City of Radford | 37 min |
| Mar 16, 4:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Giles, Montgomery, Pulaski, Wythe, City of Radford | 21 min |
| Mar 16, 4:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Bland, Grayson, Wythe | 58 min |
| Mar 16, 5:06 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RNK | Bland, Giles, Grayson, Pulaski, Smyth, Wythe | 3 hr |
| Mar 16, 5:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Giles | 23 min |
| Mar 16, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Craig, Giles, Montgomery, Pulaski | 46 min |
| Mar 16, 5:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Alleghany, City of Covington | 27 min |
| Mar 16, 6:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Henry, Patrick | 32 min |
| Mar 16, 6:37 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RNK | Alleghany, Bath, Botetourt, Craig, Giles, Montgomery and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 16, 6:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Henry, City of Martinsville | 24 min |
| Mar 16, 7:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Pittsylvania | 27 min |
| Mar 16, 7:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Rockbridge, City of Lexington | 29 min |
| Mar 16, 7:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Bedford, Henry, Pittsylvania, City of Danville | 54 min |
| Mar 16, 8:05 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Wilkes | 25 min |
| Mar 16, 1:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Greenbrier, Monroe, Summers | 68 min |
| Mar 16, 2:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Greenbrier, Monroe | 74 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.