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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Blacksburg, VA

June 15, 2025Franklin County, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2025, 1:27 PM EDT for Franklin County, Virginia. It was in force for 48 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: Jun 15, 2025, 1:27 PM EDT (17:27 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2025, 2:15 PM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Franklin County, VA

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:27 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, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 41 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: 478 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 829 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 Jun 15, 2:54 AM EDT, 10 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 2:54 AM EDT, 10 hours 33 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 15, 4:24 AM EDT, 9 hours 3 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Blacksburg VA
424 AM EDT Sun Jun 15 2025

NCZ001>003-018>020-VAZ007-009-010-012-015-016-160830-
Ashe-Alleghany NC-Surry-Watauga-Wilkes-Yadkin-Tazewell-Smyth-Bland-
Wythe-Grayson-Carroll-
424 AM EDT Sun Jun 15 2025

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for north central North Carolina,
northwest North Carolina and southwest Virginia.

.DAY ONE...Today and tonight.

Showers and thunderstorms are likely today and tonight bringing
chances of heavy rain possibly leading to flash flooding.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday.

Additional showers and thunderstorms are likely Monday. Some of
theses storms may produce heavy rain and damaging winds.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation will likely be needed.

NCZ004>006-VAZ011-013-014-017>020-022>024-032>035-043>047-058-059-
WVZ042>044-507-508-160830-
Stokes-Rockingham-Caswell-Giles-Pulaski-Montgomery-Floyd-Craig-
Alleghany VA-Bath-Roanoke-Botetourt-Rockbridge-Patrick-Franklin-
Bedford-Amherst-Henry-Pittsylvania-Campbell-Appomattox-Buckingham-
Halifax-Charlotte-Mercer-Summers-Monroe-Eastern Greenbrier-
Western Greenbrier-
424 AM EDT Sun Jun 15 2025

...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS
EVENING...

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for north central North Carolina,
central Virginia, south central Virginia, southwest Virginia, west
central Virginia and southeast West Virginia.

.DAY ONE...Today and tonight.

Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the
Internet for more information about the following hazards.

   Flood Watch.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday.

Additional showers and thunderstorms are likely Monday. Some of
theses storms may produce heavy rain and damaging winds.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Weather spotters are requested to report hail of any size, as well
as any damage caused by thunderstorm winds in their area.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 15, 11:33 AM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Blacksburg VA
1133 AM EDT Sun Jun 15 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0430 PM     Tstm Wnd Dmg     6 WNW Halifax           36.81N 79.02W
06/14/2025                   Halifax            VA   911 Call Center

            One tree down.

&&

AB

Local storm report, Jun 15, 11:34 AM EDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Blacksburg VA
1134 AM EDT Sun Jun 15 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0358 PM     Tstm Wnd Dmg     3 SSE Long Island       37.04N 79.07W
06/14/2025                   Halifax            VA   911 Call Center

            One tree down.

&&

AB

Special weather statement, Jun 15, 1:21 PM EDT, 6 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service BLACKSBURG VA
121 PM EDT Sun Jun 15 2025

VAZ033-151745-
Franklin VA-
121 PM EDT Sun Jun 15 2025

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT
CENTRAL FRANKLIN COUNTY THROUGH 145 PM EDT...

At 120 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Callaway, or near Copper Hill, moving east at 10 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

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

Locations impacted include...
Rocky Mount...
Boones Mill...
Callaway...
and Wirtz.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.

&&

LAT...LON 3702 8007 3712 8006 3711 7989 3699 7985
      3696 7996
TIME...MOT...LOC 1720Z 290DEG 10KT 3704 8005

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

AB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 2:36 AM EDT	Flood Watch	RNK	Alleghany, Amherst, Appomattox, Bath, Bedford, Botetourt and 24 more	20 hr
Jun 15, 1:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Franklin	24 min
Jun 15, 2:08 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Botetourt	3 hr
Jun 15, 2:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Bedford, Franklin, Pittsylvania	65 min
Jun 15, 2:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	City of Danville	33 min
Jun 15, 2:45 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Franklin	5 hr
Jun 15, 2:52 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Botetourt, Rockbridge	5 hr
Jun 15, 3:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Pittsylvania	29 min
Jun 15, 3:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	City of Danville	37 min
Jun 15, 3:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Campbell	29 min
Jun 15, 3:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Charlotte	27 min
Jun 15, 3:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Appomattox, Campbell	31 min
Jun 15, 4:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Halifax	28 min
Jun 15, 4:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Amherst, Appomattox, Buckingham, Campbell, Charlotte, Halifax	69 min
Jun 15, 5:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Buckingham	34 min
Jun 15, 6:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Franklin	28 min
Jun 15, 4:16 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Mercer, Summers	3 hr

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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.