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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 185, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2026, 5:03 PM EDT for Greenbrier County, Monroe County, Summers County, West Virginia. It was in force for 57 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, 5:03 PM EDT (21:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2026, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Greenbrier County, WV, Monroe County, WV, Summers County, WV
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 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
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, 2 hours 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 2:16 PM EDT, 2 hours 47 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 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, 2:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Wilkes | 52 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 |
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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.