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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 232, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 21, 2026, 4:12 PM EDT for 5 counties in Virginia; Rockingham County, Stokes County, North Carolina. It was in force for 63 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 21, 2026, 4:12 PM EDT (20:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 21, 2026, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Rockingham County, NC, Stokes County, NC, City of Martinsville, VA, Franklin County, VA, Henry County, VA, Patrick County, VA, Pittsylvania County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 567 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 941 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 12:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Pulaski, City of Radford | 30 min |
| Sep 21, 1:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Montgomery, Pulaski, City of Radford | 51 min |
| Sep 21, 1:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Alleghany, Botetourt, Craig, Montgomery, Roanoke, City of Covington and 2 more | 31 min |
| Sep 21, 2:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Carroll, Floyd, Grayson, Montgomery, Patrick, Pulaski and 2 more | 52 min |
| Sep 21, 2:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alleghany, Bath, Botetourt, Craig, Roanoke, City of Covington and 2 more | 59 min |
| Sep 21, 2:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Carroll, Floyd, Patrick | 49 min |
| Sep 21, 3:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Rockbridge, City of Buena Vista, City of Lexington | 38 min |
| Sep 21, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Franklin, Henry, Patrick, City of Martinsville | 40 min |
| Sep 21, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Tazewell | 27 min |
| Sep 21, 5:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Smyth | 29 min |
| Sep 21, 5:07 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RNK | Bland, Smyth, Tazewell | 3 hr |
| Sep 21, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Halifax, Henry, Pittsylvania, City of Danville | 64 min |
| Sep 21, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Giles | 60 min |
| Sep 21, 6:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Craig, Giles | 31 min |
| Sep 21, 6:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Halifax, Pittsylvania, City of Danville | 44 min |
| Sep 21, 2:42 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RNK | Alleghany, Ashe, Surry, Wilkes | 3 hr |
| Sep 21, 3:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Surry | 30 min |
| Sep 21, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Stokes, Surry, Yadkin | 49 min |
| Sep 21, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Stokes, Surry, Yadkin | 36 min |
| Sep 21, 6:05 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RNK | Ashe, Watauga | 3 hr |
| Sep 21, 6:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Ashe | 36 min |
| Sep 21, 12:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Summers | 23 min |
| Sep 21, 12:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Greenbrier | 24 min |
| Sep 21, 12:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Greenbrier, Monroe | 34 min |
| Sep 21, 1:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 66 min |
| Sep 21, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Greenbrier, Summers | 63 min |
| Sep 21, 4:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Mercer | 31 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.