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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 2026, 4:20 PM EDT for 4 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 55 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
- Jul 4, 2026, 4:20 PM EDT (20:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2026, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Alleghany County, VA, Botetourt County, VA, Craig County, VA, Roanoke County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 2:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 279 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
- 721 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -310 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1583 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 11:58 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Pulaski | 32 min |
| Jul 4, 1:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Wythe | 23 min |
| Jul 4, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Bland, Smyth, Tazewell | 60 min |
| Jul 4, 2:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Bland, Tazewell | 57 min |
| Jul 4, 2:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Roanoke, City of Salem | 36 min |
| Jul 4, 2:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Craig | 34 min |
| Jul 4, 2:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Montgomery | 30 min |
| Jul 4, 2:46 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RNK | Bland, Tazewell | 2 hr |
| Jul 4, 2:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Craig, Giles, Montgomery, Pulaski, City of Radford | 61 min |
| Jul 4, 3:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alleghany, Craig | 58 min |
| Jul 4, 3:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Alleghany, City of Covington | 33 min |
| Jul 4, 3:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alleghany, Botetourt, City of Covington | 54 min |
| Jul 4, 3:42 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RNK | Craig, Giles, Montgomery, Pulaski, Roanoke, City of Radford | 2 hr |
| Jul 4, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alleghany, Craig | 60 min |
| Jul 4, 3:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Montgomery, Roanoke | 49 min |
| Jul 4, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alleghany, Bath, Botetourt, Rockbridge, City of Covington | 48 min |
| Jul 4, 4:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Craig | 35 min |
| Jul 4, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Bath, Rockbridge | 63 min |
| Jul 4, 4:17 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RNK | Alleghany, Botetourt, Craig, City of Covington | 106 min |
| Jul 4, 4:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Campbell | 32 min |
| Jul 4, 4:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | City of Roanoke, City of Salem | 26 min |
| Jul 4, 4:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | City of Lynchburg | 35 min |
| Jul 4, 4:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford, Campbell, City of Buena Vista, City of Lynchburg | 30 min |
| Jul 4, 4:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Rockbridge, City of Lexington | 34 min |
| Jul 4, 4:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | City of Martinsville | 32 min |
| Jul 4, 5:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford, Botetourt, Buckingham, Campbell and 4 more | 56 min |
| Jul 4, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Henry, Patrick | 55 min |
| Jul 4, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Carroll, Patrick | 54 min |
| Jul 4, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford, Buckingham, Campbell, Pittsylvania and 1 more | 64 min |
| Jul 4, 6:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Franklin | 25 min |
| Jul 4, 6:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Buckingham | 25 min |
| Jul 4, 6:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Appomattox, Buckingham | 32 min |
| Jul 4, 7:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Charlotte | 28 min |
| Jul 4, 2:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Watauga | 33 min |
| Jul 4, 5:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Alleghany | 27 min |
| Jul 4, 5:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Stokes | 29 min |
| Jul 4, 5:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Surry | 28 min |
| Jul 4, 1:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Mercer, Summers | 63 min |
| Jul 4, 2:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 64 min |
| Jul 4, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Greenbrier, Mercer, Summers | 44 min |
| Jul 4, 3:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RNK | Monroe | 27 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.