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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 209, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 4, 2026, 3:58 PM EDT for Wilkes County, Yadkin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 62 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
- Sep 4, 2026, 3:58 PM EDT (19:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 4, 2026, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Wilkes County, NC, Yadkin County, NC
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:02 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4, 2:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 1553 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1162 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4, 12:10 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | RNK | Appomattox, Buckingham, Campbell, Charlotte, Halifax, Pittsylvania and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 4, 2:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Giles | 26 min |
| Sep 4, 2:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Rockbridge, City of Buena Vista, City of Lexington | 37 min |
| Sep 4, 2:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Buckingham | 36 min |
| Sep 4, 3:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Amherst | 32 min |
| Sep 4, 3:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Amherst, Appomattox, Campbell, City of Lynchburg | 53 min |
| Sep 4, 3:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Smyth | 48 min |
| Sep 4, 4:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Bland | 36 min |
| Sep 4, 4:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Appomattox | 33 min |
| Sep 4, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alleghany | 54 min |
| Sep 4, 4:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Bland, Tazewell, Wythe | 56 min |
| Sep 4, 4:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Prince Edward | 33 min |
| Sep 4, 5:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Henry, Patrick | 26 min |
| Sep 4, 5:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Rockbridge, City of Lexington | 24 min |
| Sep 4, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alleghany, Bath, Botetourt, Craig, Rockbridge, City of Covington | 62 min |
| Sep 4, 5:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Halifax | 29 min |
| Sep 4, 5:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Bland | 35 min |
| Sep 4, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Henry | 63 min |
| Sep 4, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Amherst, Bedford, Botetourt, Rockbridge, City of Buena Vista, City of Lexington | 68 min |
| Sep 4, 6:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Craig | 33 min |
| Sep 4, 6:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Floyd | 30 min |
| Sep 4, 6:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Buckingham | 41 min |
| Sep 4, 6:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Appomattox | 33 min |
| Sep 4, 7:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Campbell | 30 min |
| Sep 4, 7:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Halifax | 31 min |
| Sep 4, 3:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Wilkes | 31 min |
| Sep 4, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Stokes, Surry | 46 min |
| Sep 4, 5:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Alleghany | 30 min |
| Sep 4, 6:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Rockingham | 50 min |
| Sep 4, 4:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Mercer | 28 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.