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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 2026, 1:56 PM EDT for 4 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 64 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 15, 2026, 1:56 PM EDT (17:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 2026, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Alleghany County, NC, Surry County, NC, Wilkes County, NC, Yadkin County, NC
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 Aug 15, 12:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 15, 12:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 15, 1:38 PM EDT, 18 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 15, 1:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Carroll | 37 min |
| Aug 15, 2:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Carroll, Patrick | 25 min |
| Aug 15, 2:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Carroll, Patrick | 61 min |
| Aug 15, 3:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Carroll, Wythe, City of Galax | 34 min |
| Aug 15, 3:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Tazewell | 24 min |
| Aug 15, 3:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Smyth, Tazewell | 58 min |
| Aug 15, 4:03 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RNK | Smyth, Tazewell | 3 hr |
| Aug 15, 4:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Grayson, City of Galax | 30 min |
| Aug 15, 4:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Bland | 36 min |
| Aug 15, 5:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Bland | 44 min |
| Aug 15, 1:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Surry | 35 min |
| Aug 15, 2:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Wilkes | 26 min |
| Aug 15, 2:26 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RNK | Wilkes | 3 hr |
| Aug 15, 2:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Wilkes | 30 min |
| Aug 15, 2:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Wilkes | 42 min |
| Aug 15, 2:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Wilkes, Yadkin | 41 min |
| Aug 15, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alleghany, Wilkes | 36 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.