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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 198, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 2025, 5:31 PM EDT for Buckingham County, Virginia. It was in force for 59 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
- Jul 27, 2025, 5:31 PM EDT (21:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2025, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Buckingham County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 Jul 27, 2:54 PM EDT, 2 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 2:54 PM EDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 27, 3:57 PM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 26, 11:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Alleghany | 29 min |
| Jul 26, 11:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Alleghany, City of Covington | 30 min |
| Jul 26, 11:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Pulaski | 25 min |
| Jul 27, 12:03 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Botetourt | 27 min |
| Jul 27, 12:14 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | City of Covington | 31 min |
| Jul 27, 1:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Carroll | 24 min |
| Jul 27, 2:17 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | RNK | Charlotte, Halifax, Pittsylvania, City of Danville | 30 hr |
| Jul 27, 3:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Henry | 35 min |
| Jul 27, 3:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Henry | 37 min |
| Jul 27, 3:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | City of Martinsville | 33 min |
| Jul 27, 4:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Pittsylvania | 23 min |
| Jul 27, 4:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Pittsylvania | 31 min |
| Jul 27, 5:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Amherst | 25 min |
| Jul 27, 5:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Bath | 35 min |
| Jul 27, 5:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Halifax | 31 min |
| Jul 27, 5:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Amherst, Rockbridge, City of Buena Vista, City of Lexington | 29 min |
| Jul 27, 6:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Amherst, Rockbridge, City of Buena Vista, City of Lexington | 31 min |
| Jul 27, 6:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Giles | 37 min |
| Jul 27, 6:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Halifax | 20 min |
| Jul 27, 6:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Appomattox | 32 min |
| Jul 27, 6:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Appomattox | 32 min |
| Jul 27, 6:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Bedford | 30 min |
| Jul 27, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Amherst, Bedford, Botetourt, Rockbridge, City of Lynchburg | 55 min |
| Jul 27, 7:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Buckingham | 30 min |
| Jul 27, 7:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Smyth | 36 min |
| Jul 27, 7:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Campbell | 31 min |
| Jul 27, 3:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Surry | 31 min |
| Jul 26, 10:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Greenbrier | 37 min |
| Jul 26, 11:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Greenbrier | 31 min |
| Jul 26, 11:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Greenbrier | 28 min |
| Jul 27, 12:39 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Greenbrier | 36 min |
| Jul 27, 2:29 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Monroe | 31 min |
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The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.