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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2026, 5:25 PM EDT for Greenbrier County, Summers County, West Virginia. It was in force for 65 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
- Aug 2, 2026, 5:25 PM EDT (21:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2026, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Greenbrier County, WV, Summers County, WV
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:27 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 273 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 494 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
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 Aug 2, 2:35 PM EDT, 2 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 2:35 PM EDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 2, 2:51 PM EDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Blacksburg VA 251 PM EDT Sun Aug 2 2026 NCZ001>004-018>020-VAZ007-009>020-022>024-032>035-043-WVZ042>044-507- 508-031900- Ashe-Alleghany NC-Surry-Stokes-Watauga-Wilkes-Yadkin-Tazewell-Smyth- Bland-Giles-Wythe-Pulaski-Montgomery-Grayson-Carroll-Floyd-Craig- Alleghany VA-Bath-Roanoke-Botetourt-Rockbridge-Patrick-Franklin- Bedford-Amherst-Henry-Mercer-Summers-Monroe-Eastern Greenbrier- Western Greenbrier- 251 PM EDT Sun Aug 2 2026 ...FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for north central North Carolina, northwest North Carolina, central Virginia, south central Virginia, southwest Virginia, west central Virginia and southeast West Virginia. .DAY ONE...This afternoon 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. Thunderstorms this evening may also contain localized damaging wind gusts. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. Thunderstorms developing each afternoon and evening through Wednesday will be capable of producing frequent lightning, localized damaging wind gusts, and pockets of heavy rain that may result in flash flooding. .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. NCZ005-006-VAZ044>047-058-059-031900- Rockingham-Caswell-Pittsylvania-Campbell-Appomattox-Buckingham- Halifax-Charlotte- 251 PM EDT Sun Aug 2 2026 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for north central North Carolina, central Virginia and south central Virginia. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Thunderstorms developing this evening will be capable of producing frequent lightning, localized damaging wind gusts, and pockets of heavy rain that may result in flash flooding. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. Thunderstorms developing each afternoon and evening through Wednesday will be capable of producing frequent lightning, localized damaging wind gusts, and pockets of heavy rain that may result in flash flooding. .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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 8:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Patrick | 8 hr |
| Aug 1, 10:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Carroll, Floyd, Franklin, Henry, Patrick | 6 hr |
| Aug 1, 11:26 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Patrick | 6 hr |
| Aug 1, 11:54 PM EDT | Flood Watch | RNK | Alleghany, Amherst, Bath, Bedford, Bland, Botetourt and 23 more | 26 hr |
| Aug 2, 4:20 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RNK | Carroll, Floyd, Patrick | 9 hr |
| Aug 2, 4:27 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | RNK | Patrick | 9 hr |
| Aug 2, 5:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Smyth | 50 min |
| Aug 2, 5:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RNK | Patrick | 22 hr |
| Aug 2, 6:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Tazewell | 34 min |
| Aug 1, 8:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Stokes | 26 min |
| Aug 1, 9:40 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RNK | Ashe, Watauga, Wilkes | 4 hr |
| Aug 2, 12:32 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Surry | 7 hr |
| Aug 2, 6:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Ashe | 30 min |
| Aug 2, 6:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Greenbrier | 45 min |
| Aug 2, 7:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Greenbrier, Mercer, Summers | 51 min |
| Aug 2, 7:33 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RNK | Greenbrier, Summers | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 7:39 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RNK | Mercer, Summers | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 7:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Greenbrier, Summers | 4 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.