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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 177, NWS Blacksburg, VA

August 14, 20266 counties in Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 2026, 5:56 PM EDT for 6 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 49 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 14, 2026, 5:56 PM EDT (21:56 UTC)
Expired: Aug 14, 2026, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Appomattox County, VA, Bedford County, VA, Campbell County, VA, Charlotte County, VA, Halifax County, VA, Pittsylvania County, VA

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:55 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 40 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: 624 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 904 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 14, 1:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Tazewell	32 min
Aug 14, 2:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Pulaski	27 min
Aug 14, 2:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Smyth	26 min
Aug 14, 2:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Floyd	10 min
Aug 14, 3:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Patrick	13 min
Aug 14, 3:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Carroll	8 min
Aug 14, 3:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Henry	13 min
Aug 14, 3:26 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Henry, City of Martinsville	3 hr
Aug 14, 3:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Henry, Patrick, Pittsylvania, City of Martinsville	25 min
Aug 14, 3:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Alleghany, Craig	50 min
Aug 14, 4:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Henry, Pittsylvania	44 min
Aug 14, 4:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Alleghany, Botetourt, Craig, Roanoke, Rockbridge	37 min
Aug 14, 4:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Amherst, Bedford, Botetourt, Rockbridge, City of Buena Vista, City of Lynchburg	41 min
Aug 14, 4:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Bland, Giles, Pulaski	51 min
Aug 14, 5:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Bedford, City of Roanoke, City of Salem	13 min
Aug 14, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford, Buckingham, Campbell, Pittsylvania and 1 more	45 min
Aug 14, 5:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Floyd, Montgomery, Pulaski, City of Radford	28 min
Aug 14, 6:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Charlotte	13 min
Aug 14, 6:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Halifax	29 min
Aug 14, 6:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Smyth	27 min
Aug 14, 12:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Surry, Yadkin	26 min
Aug 14, 1:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Surry, Yadkin	30 min
Aug 14, 1:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Yadkin	30 min
Aug 14, 3:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Wilkes	33 min
Aug 14, 4:05 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Wilkes	2 hr
Aug 14, 4:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Caswell	24 min
Aug 14, 5:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Caswell	30 min
Aug 14, 7:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Ashe	28 min
Aug 14, 7:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Ashe	12 min
Aug 14, 2:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Nicholas	30 min
Aug 14, 2:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Greenbrier	19 min
Aug 14, 3:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Greenbrier	17 min
Aug 14, 3:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Summers	14 min
Aug 14, 4:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Mercer	32 min

Nearby

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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.