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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 225, NWS Blacksburg, VA

September 6, 2025Halifax County, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 6, 2025, 3:03 PM EDT for Halifax County, Virginia. It was in force for 57 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: Sep 6, 2025, 3:03 PM EDT (19:03 UTC)
Expired: Sep 6, 2025, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Halifax County, VA

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:07 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 278 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: 551 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -121 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1122 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The office that day

Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 6, 2:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	City of Danville	26 min
Sep 6, 2:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Charlotte	35 min
Sep 6, 2:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Halifax, Pittsylvania, City of Danville	58 min
Sep 6, 3:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Charlotte	28 min
Sep 6, 3:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Halifax	37 min
Sep 6, 3:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Charlotte, Halifax	64 min
Sep 6, 6:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Pittsylvania	23 min
Sep 6, 2:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Caswell, Rockingham	78 min
Sep 6, 3:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Caswell	36 min

Nearby

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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.