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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 106, NWS Blacksburg, VA

July 18, 2026Charlotte County, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 2026, 1:53 PM EDT for Charlotte County, Virginia. It was in force for 22 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: Jul 18, 2026, 1:53 PM EDT (17:53 UTC)
Expired: Jul 18, 2026, 2:15 PM EDT
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Charlotte County, VA

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 77 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: 545 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -103 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1058 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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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 Jul 18, 1:30 PM EDT, 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 1:30 PM EDT, 23 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 18, 4:13 AM EDT, 9 hours 40 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 18, 1:25 PM EDT, 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 18, 1:35 PM EDT, 18 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 18, 1:38 PM EDT, 15 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 18, 1:40 PM EDT, 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 18, 1:46 PM EDT, 7 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 18, 1:48 PM EDT, 5 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 18, 11:29 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Grayson	31 min
Jul 18, 11:43 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Carroll	32 min
Jul 18, 12:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Carroll	32 min
Jul 18, 12:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Rockbridge, City of Buena Vista, City of Lexington	29 min
Jul 18, 12:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Carroll	32 min
Jul 18, 12:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Charlotte	28 min
Jul 18, 12:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Tazewell	24 min
Jul 18, 12:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Bath	19 min
Jul 18, 1:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Charlotte	20 min
Jul 18, 1:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Charlotte	40 min
Jul 18, 1:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Franklin	20 min
Jul 18, 1:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Rockbridge, City of Buena Vista, City of Lexington	29 min
Jul 18, 1:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Wythe	27 min
Jul 18, 2:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Alleghany, City of Covington	31 min
Jul 18, 2:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Alleghany, Botetourt, Rockbridge, City of Covington	39 min
Jul 18, 2:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Montgomery	31 min
Jul 18, 2:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Charlotte	30 min
Jul 18, 2:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Halifax	22 min
Jul 18, 3:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Montgomery, City of Radford	24 min
Jul 18, 3:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	City of Galax	37 min
Jul 18, 3:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	City of Buena Vista	30 min
Jul 18, 3:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Montgomery, Roanoke, City of Salem	31 min
Jul 18, 3:31 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Montgomery	119 min
Jul 18, 3:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Bedford, Botetourt, Franklin, Montgomery, Roanoke, City of Roanoke and 1 more	54 min
Jul 18, 3:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Amherst	28 min
Jul 18, 3:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Amherst, Bedford	53 min
Jul 18, 4:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Patrick	26 min
Jul 18, 4:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Buckingham	35 min
Jul 18, 4:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Charlotte	31 min
Jul 18, 5:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Charlotte	24 min
Jul 18, 5:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Halifax	33 min
Jul 18, 5:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Halifax	25 min
Jul 18, 5:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Charlotte, Halifax	62 min
Jul 18, 5:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Halifax	33 min
Jul 18, 12:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Alleghany	37 min
Jul 18, 2:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Surry	31 min
Jul 18, 2:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Stokes, Surry, Yadkin	62 min
Jul 18, 3:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Watauga	27 min
Jul 18, 3:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Wilkes	65 min
Jul 18, 3:27 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Watauga	2 hr
Jul 18, 3:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Surry, Wilkes, Yadkin	66 min
Jul 18, 4:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Yadkin	26 min
Jul 18, 4:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Stokes, Surry	62 min
Jul 18, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Yadkin	19 min
Jul 18, 5:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Rockingham	25 min
Jul 18, 12:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Summers	26 min
Jul 18, 1:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Monroe	22 min
Jul 18, 7:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Greenbrier	30 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.