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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 231, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 19, 2025, 4:15 PM EDT for 8 counties in Virginia; 4 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 60 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
- Oct 19, 2025, 4:15 PM EDT (20:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 19, 2025, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Alleghany County, VA, Bland County, VA, City of Radford, VA, Craig County, VA, Giles County, VA, Montgomery County, VA, Pulaski County, VA, Wythe County, VA, Greenbrier County, WV, Mercer County, WV, Monroe County, WV, Summers County, WV
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 856 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 19, 1:04 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | RNK | Bath, Carroll, Floyd, Grayson, City of Galax | 19 hr |
| Oct 19, 2:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Bland, Smyth, Tazewell | 32 min |
| Oct 19, 3:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Bland, Giles, Grayson, Pulaski, Smyth, Tazewell and 1 more | 56 min |
| Oct 19, 3:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alleghany, Bath | 61 min |
| Oct 19, 4:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Grayson, Wythe | 25 min |
| Oct 19, 4:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Bath | 33 min |
| Oct 19, 4:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Grayson, City of Galax | 31 min |
| Oct 19, 5:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Bath | 31 min |
| Oct 19, 5:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Botetourt, Craig | 25 min |
| Oct 19, 5:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Botetourt, City of Roanoke, City of Salem | 24 min |
| Oct 19, 5:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Craig, Giles, Roanoke | 34 min |
| Oct 19, 6:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Bedford, Rockbridge, City of Buena Vista, City of Lexington | 32 min |
| Oct 19, 6:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Franklin, Henry, Patrick, City of Martinsville | 35 min |
| Oct 19, 7:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Appomattox, Campbell, Pittsylvania | 30 min |
| Oct 19, 7:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Franklin, Henry, City of Martinsville | 34 min |
| Oct 19, 7:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Appomattox, Buckingham, Campbell | 32 min |
| Oct 19, 7:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Appomattox, Buckingham | 36 min |
| Oct 19, 3:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Greenbrier, Summers | 32 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.