Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 1986, 4:10 PM EST for Forsyth 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
- Apr 26, 1986, 4:10 PM EST (21:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 1986, 5:10 PM EST
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Forsyth 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 4:25 PM EST | Hail 0.88 | Forsyth, 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 32 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1200 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Apr 26, 3:05 PM EST, 1 hour 5 minutes before
^WBCSPSROA SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROANOKE VA 300 PM EST SAT APR 26 1986 AT 300 PM EST RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER CRAIG CARROLL FLOYD GILES PULASKI AND PATRICK COUNTIES OF VIRGINIA. A VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED OVER NORTH CENTRAL FLOYD TO NORTH PATRICK COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM INDICATED THAT IT CONTAINED SOME HAIL.AND AS IT MOVES SOUTHEAST COULD CAUSE HEAVY DOWNPOURS, STRONG GUSTY WIND, DANGEROUS LIGHTNING, SOME HAIL AND POSSIBLY SOME FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND LOW LYING AREAS. $$HS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 4:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Davidson | 60 min |
| Apr 26, 5:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alamance | 60 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.