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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2025, 2:38 PM EDT for Halifax County, Virginia. It was in force for 25 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
- May 5, 2025, 2:38 PM EDT (18:38 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2025, 3:03 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 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 18:37 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1008 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 May 5, 1:58 PM EDT, 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 5, 1:58 PM EDT, 40 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 5, 10:36 AM EDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Blacksburg VA 1036 AM EDT Mon May 5 2025 NCZ001>006-018>020-VAZ007-009>018-022-032-033-043-WVZ042>044-061445- Ashe-Alleghany NC-Surry-Stokes-Rockingham-Caswell-Watauga-Wilkes- Yadkin-Tazewell-Smyth-Bland-Giles-Wythe-Pulaski-Montgomery-Grayson- Carroll-Floyd-Craig-Roanoke-Patrick-Franklin-Henry-Mercer-Summers- Monroe- 1036 AM EDT Mon May 5 2025 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for north central North Carolina, northwest North Carolina, south central Virginia, southwest Virginia, west central Virginia and southeast West Virginia. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday. The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. VAZ019-020-023-024-034-035-044>047-058-059-WVZ507-508-061445- Alleghany VA-Bath-Botetourt-Rockbridge-Bedford-Amherst-Pittsylvania- Campbell-Appomattox-Buckingham-Halifax-Charlotte-Eastern Greenbrier- Western Greenbrier- 1036 AM EDT Mon May 5 2025 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Virginia, south central Virginia, west central Virginia and southeast West Virginia. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. There is a Marginal Risk of severe thunderstorms this afternoon and early evening. The main hazards are large hail and damaging wind. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday. There is a low probability for widespread hazardous weather. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 5, 2:34 PM EDT, 4 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service BLACKSBURG VA
234 PM EDT Mon May 5 2025
VAZ058-051900-
Halifax VA-
234 PM EDT Mon May 5 2025
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT SOUTHWESTERN HALIFAX COUNTY
THROUGH 300 PM EDT...
At 234 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Turbeville, moving northeast at 30 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph and half inch hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
South Boston...
Halifax...
Turbeville...
Ingram...
and Elmo.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
&&
LAT...LON 3655 7903 3658 7920 3685 7913 3687 7894
3675 7885
TIME...MOT...LOC 1834Z 209DEG 25KT 3665 7907
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
BMGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 2:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Halifax | 26 min |
| May 5, 7:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | City of Covington | 26 min |
| May 5, 7:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Bedford | 35 min |
| May 5, 7:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Amherst, Bedford, Botetourt, Rockbridge, City of Buena Vista, City of Lexington | 44 min |
| May 5, 7:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Bath | 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.