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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 105, NWS Blacksburg, VA

June 25, 2025Alleghany County, Bath County, City of Covington, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2025, 2:29 PM EDT for Alleghany County, Bath County, City of Covington, Virginia. It was in force for 40 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 25, 2025, 2:29 PM EDT (18:29 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2025, 3:09 PM EDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Alleghany County, VA, Bath County, VA, City of Covington, VA

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:32 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

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 249 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: 515 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -88 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1717 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -27 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 25, 6:59 AM EDT, 7 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 6:59 AM EDT, 7 hours 30 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 25, 2:26 PM EDT, 3 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 25, 1:46 PM EDT, 43 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 25, 1:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Alleghany	44 min
Jun 25, 2:00 PM EDT	Heat Advisory	RNK	Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford, Botetourt, Buckingham, Campbell and 11 more	29 hr
Jun 25, 2:41 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Alleghany, Bath	64 min
Jun 25, 2:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Giles	49 min
Jun 25, 3:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Halifax	32 min
Jun 25, 4:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Halifax	18 min
Jun 25, 4:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Charlotte, Halifax	40 min
Jun 25, 5:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Halifax	19 min
Jun 25, 5:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Halifax	16 min
Jun 25, 5:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Charlotte	21 min
Jun 25, 6:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Appomattox	22 min
Jun 25, 7:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Amherst	13 min
Jun 25, 4:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Watauga	23 min
Jun 25, 4:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Ashe	12 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.