Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 1986, 6:17 PM EDT for Alexander County, Iredell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 60 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 26, 1986, 6:17 PM EDT (22:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 1986, 7:17 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Alexander County, NC, Iredell County, NC
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 6:35 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Alexander, NC |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 173 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -172 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1166 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGSO 262217 SVRGSO NCC003-097-262217- BULLETIN-IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC 617 PM EDT SAT JUL 26 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 717 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF NORTH CAROLINA...SOUTHERN ALEXANDER...IREDELL AT 615 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHEAST ALEXANDER COUNTY. MOVING SLOWLY TO THE SOUTHEAST. DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL..VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING MEANS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN SIGHTED OR INDICATED BY RADAR. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS WINDS STRONGER THAN 57 MPH OR HAIL 3/4 OF AN INCH OR LARGER. RESIDENTS OF IREDELL AND SOUTHEAST ALEXANDER COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOU...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. REPORT ANY SEVERE W?EATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. RJK
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 26, 12:44 PM EDT, 5 hours 33 minutes before
^WBCSPSROA SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROANOKE VA 1245 PM EDT SAT JUL 26 1986 AT 1245 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED A HEAVY THUNDERSTROM IN WESTERN PULASKI COUNTY VIRGINIA. STRONG GUSTY WINDS HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND SMALL HAIL COULD BE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVES EASTWARD ACROSS PULASKI MONTGOMERY AND FLOYD COUNTIE DURING THE NEXT TWO HOURS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS SOME HEAVY WERE LOCATED NORTH OF THE ROANOKE AREA IN ROCKBRIDGE AMHERST ANDTO THE NORTH. HS
Special weather statement, Jul 26, 1:10 PM EDT, 5 hours 7 minutes before
^WBCSPSROA SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROANOKE VA 115 PM EDT SAT JUL 26 1986 AT 115 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS FORMING ABOUT 15 MILES WEST AND NORTHWEST OF ROANOKE VIRGINIA. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN PULASKI COUNTY AND SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FORMING IN PATRICK CARROLL AND GILES COUNTIES. SOME HEAVY DOWNPOURS STRONG GUSTY WINDS DANGEROUS LIGHTNING SMALL HAIL AND URBAN SMALL STREAM FLOODING COULD BE ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS. THE STORMS ARE MOVING EASTWARD AT ABOUT 25 MPH. HS
Special weather statement, Jul 26, 1:25 PM EDT, 4 hours 52 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LYNCHBURG VA 120 PM EDT SAT JUL 26 1986 AT 120 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS IN THE NORTHERN HALF OF AMHERST COUNTY VIRGINIA..TO THE WEST OF TYE RIVER AND THE TOWN OF AMHERST. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS..BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE EASTWARD ACROSS AMHERST COUNTY OVER THE NEXT HOUR. KGH
Special weather statement, Jul 26, 1:38 PM EDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before
^WBCSPSROA SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROANOKE VA 145 PM EDT SAT JUL 26 1986 AT 145 PM RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER MOST SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL VIRGINIA COUNTIES. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE VERY HEAVY AND COULD PRODUCE HEAVY DOWNPOURS STRONG GUSTY WINDS SMALL HAIL AND LOCALIZED SMALL STREAM FLOODING. AT 145 PM THE HEAVIEST OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN BOTETOURT ROANOKE AND CARROLL COUNTIES. THE STORMS ARE FORMING AND DISSIPATING AT A RAPID RATE SO STRONG THUNDERSTORMS COUL OCCUR THROUGHOUT SOUTHWEST VIRGINA THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. HS
Special weather statement, Jul 26, 3:04 PM EDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before
^WBCSPSROA SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROANOKE VA 300 PM EDT SAT JUL 26 1986 AT 300 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS IN ROANOKE AND BOTETOURT COUNTIES. STRONG GUSTY WIND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS DANGEROUS LIGHTNONG SMALL HAIL AND URBAN SMALL STREAM FLOODING IN LIKELY WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. THEY ARE MOVING SOUTH AT ABOUT 25 MPH. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED THROUGHOUT SW VIRGINIA. THE STRONGEST OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN FLOYD AND PATRICK COUNTIES. HS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rockingham | 65 min |
| Jul 26, 5:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alamance, Caswell | 60 min |
| Jul 26, 6:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Davie | 50 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.