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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Blacksburg, VA

May 8, 20256 counties in Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2025, 12:50 PM EDT for 6 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 39 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 8, 2025, 12:50 PM EDT (16:50 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2025, 1:29 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Bland County, VA, Carroll County, VA, Floyd County, VA, Montgomery County, VA, Pulaski County, VA, Wythe County, VA

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:51 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 112 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1148 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 52 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 May 8, 11:30 AM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 8, 11:30 AM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 8, 5:12 AM EDT, 7 hours 38 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 8, 12:31 PM EDT, 19 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service BLACKSBURG VA
1231 PM EDT Thu May 8 2025

VAZ010-012-081700-
Bland VA-Wythe VA-
1231 PM EDT Thu May 8 2025

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT SOUTHERN BLAND AND NORTHERN
WYTHE COUNTIES THROUGH 100 PM EDT...

At 1230 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Favonia, or near Ceres, moving east at 30 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph and pea size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects.

Locations impacted include...
Wytheville...
Max Meadows...
Gunton Park...
Fort Chiswell...
Favonia...
and Coleman Store.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Locally heavy rain will quickly reduce visibility and result in
ponding of water on roadways, standing water in low lying areas, and
minor flooding of creeks, streams, and areas of poor drainage.
Drivers are urged to slow down and use extra caution to avoid
hydroplaning.

&&

LAT...LON 3707 8133 3707 8132 3709 8092 3703 8089
      3699 8085 3688 8092 3694 8134
TIME...MOT...LOC 1630Z 271DEG 28KT 3700 8126

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

PW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 12:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Wythe	29 min
May 8, 5:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Patrick	32 min
May 8, 6:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Henry, Patrick, City of Martinsville	62 min
May 8, 6:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Franklin	28 min
May 8, 6:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Franklin, Henry, Pittsylvania	67 min
May 8, 6:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Franklin	24 min
May 8, 6:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Henry, Pittsylvania	63 min
May 8, 7:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Campbell	30 min
May 8, 7:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	City of Martinsville	37 min
May 8, 7:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Halifax	36 min
May 8, 7:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Appomattox, Campbell	27 min
May 8, 7:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Bland, Wythe	36 min
May 8, 7:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Pittsylvania	33 min
May 8, 4:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Wilkes	22 min
May 8, 4:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Wilkes	58 min
May 8, 4:38 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Wilkes	3 hr
May 8, 5:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Yadkin	32 min
May 8, 5:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Wilkes, Yadkin	21 min
May 8, 5:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Wilkes	25 min
May 8, 5:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Surry	23 min
May 8, 5:45 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Wilkes	3 hr
May 8, 5:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Wilkes	37 min
May 8, 5:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Stokes	35 min
May 8, 6:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Wilkes	29 min
May 8, 6:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Stokes, Surry	28 min
May 8, 6:13 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Surry	2 hr
May 8, 6:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Wilkes	31 min
May 8, 6:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Alleghany, Surry, Wilkes	37 min
May 8, 7:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Stokes	25 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.