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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 184, NWS Blacksburg, VA

August 16, 2026Wilkes County, North Carolina

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2026, 2:41 PM EDT for Wilkes County, North Carolina. It was in force for 52 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 16, 2026, 2:41 PM EDT (18:41 UTC)
Expired: Aug 16, 2026, 3:33 PM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Wilkes County, NC

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 185 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: 334 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 630 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 16, 2:16 PM EDT, 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 2:16 PM EDT, 25 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 16, 4:24 AM EDT, 10 hours 17 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Blacksburg VA
424 AM EDT Sun Aug 16 2026

NCZ001>006-018>020-VAZ007-009>020-022>024-032>035-043>047-058-059-
WVZ042>044-507-508-170830-
Ashe-Alleghany NC-Surry-Stokes-Rockingham-Caswell-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-Pittsylvania-Campbell-
Appomattox-Buckingham-Halifax-Charlotte-Mercer-Summers-Monroe-
Eastern Greenbrier-Western Greenbrier-
424 AM EDT Sun Aug 16 2026

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...Today and tonight.

Severe storms will be possible today. Damaging winds is the main
hazard, with a tornado or two possible for areas north of 460. Heavy
rain could also lead to flash flooding today, with the greatest
threat across portions of Southeast West Virginia.

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

Severe storms will be possible again on Monday. Damaging winds is
the main hazard. Heavy rain could also lead to localized flash
flooding.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation may be needed.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 16, 11:07 AM EDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 16, 12:35 PM EDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 16, 1:06 PM EDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 16, 1:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 16, 1:47 PM EDT, 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 16, 2:28 PM EDT, 13 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
Aug 16, 8:57 AM EDT	Flood Watch	RNK	Alleghany, Bath, City of Covington	35 hr
Aug 16, 10:24 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Alleghany	3 hr
Aug 16, 12:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Henry, City of Martinsville	25 min
Aug 16, 1:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Henry	24 min
Aug 16, 1:11 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Henry, Patrick	3 hr
Aug 16, 4:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Bath	38 min
Aug 16, 5:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Alleghany, City of Covington	32 min
Aug 16, 6:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Alleghany, Botetourt, City of Covington	24 min
Aug 16, 6:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	City of Buena Vista	36 min
Aug 16, 6:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Floyd	33 min
Aug 16, 6:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Buckingham	23 min
Aug 16, 7:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Buckingham	62 min
Aug 16, 7:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Franklin	34 min
Aug 16, 7:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Bedford, Campbell, City of Lynchburg	30 min
Aug 16, 7:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Amherst, Campbell, City of Lynchburg	31 min
Aug 16, 1:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Caswell, Rockingham	30 min
Aug 16, 2:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Wilkes	32 min
Aug 16, 2:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RNK	Yadkin	23 min
Aug 16, 8:08 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RNK	Greenbrier, Summers	3 hr
Aug 16, 8:34 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Greenbrier, Summers	6 hr
Aug 16, 2:39 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	RNK	Greenbrier, Summers	111 min
Aug 16, 5:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Greenbrier, Monroe, Summers	57 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.