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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 135, NWS Blacksburg, VA

June 29, 20254 counties in Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2025, 5:58 PM EDT for 4 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 48 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 29, 2025, 5:58 PM EDT (21:58 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 2025, 6:46 PM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Amherst County, VA, Appomattox County, VA, Campbell County, VA, City of Lynchburg, VA

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 165 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: 840 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -77 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1067 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 3 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 29, 1:39 PM EDT, 4 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 1:39 PM EDT, 4 hours 19 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 29, 1:42 PM EDT, 4 hours 16 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 29, 3:32 PM EDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 29, 4:39 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 29, 4:53 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 29, 5:11 PM EDT, 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 29, 5:37 PM EDT, 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 29, 5:52 PM EDT, 6 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 28, 8:09 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Carroll, Grayson, City of Galax	2 hr
Jun 28, 8:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Carroll	35 min
Jun 28, 8:12 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Tazewell	3 hr
Jun 28, 8:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Tazewell	27 min
Jun 28, 8:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Alleghany	30 min
Jun 28, 8:41 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Botetourt, Roanoke, City of Roanoke, City of Salem	2 hr
Jun 28, 8:42 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Botetourt, Craig	114 min
Jun 28, 8:45 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Tazewell	6 hr
Jun 28, 8:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Tazewell	30 min
Jun 28, 9:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Tazewell	25 min
Jun 28, 9:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Tazewell	23 min
Jun 28, 10:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Pulaski	28 min
Jun 28, 10:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Smyth	27 min
Jun 28, 10:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Smyth	28 min
Jun 28, 11:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Smyth	27 min
Jun 29, 2:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Henry, City of Martinsville	32 min
Jun 29, 3:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Carroll	25 min
Jun 29, 3:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Pittsylvania	28 min
Jun 29, 4:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Augusta	36 min
Jun 29, 4:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Wythe	37 min
Jun 29, 5:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Montgomery	34 min
Jun 29, 5:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Campbell	23 min
Jun 29, 5:41 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Rockbridge	2 hr
Jun 29, 5:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Appomattox	23 min
Jun 29, 6:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Charlotte	25 min
Jun 29, 6:25 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Amherst, Appomattox, Campbell, City of Lynchburg	2 hr
Jun 29, 6:28 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Alleghany, Botetourt	114 min
Jun 29, 6:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Botetourt	33 min
Jun 29, 7:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Amherst	26 min
Jun 29, 12:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Wilkes	47 min
Jun 29, 1:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Wilkes	35 min
Jun 29, 6:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Forsyth	24 min
Jun 29, 6:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Stokes	27 min
Jun 28, 8:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Mercer	36 min
Jun 28, 9:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Monroe	36 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.