Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1986, 4:43 PM EDT for Davie County, North Carolina. It was in force for 62 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 25, 1986, 4:43 PM EDT (20:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 1986, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Davie 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 25, 5:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Davie, 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 1708 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 812 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 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 252043 SVRGSO NCC059-252145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC 443 PM EDT FRI JUL 25 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF NORTH CAROLINA...DAVIE AT 441 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR MOCKSVILLE IN DAVIE COUNTY MOVING SOUTH AT 5 TO 10 MPH. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THE SEVERE WEATHER WARNING THAT WAS ISSUED EARLIER FOR ROWAN COUNTY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 530 PM. RBN
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 25, 3:22 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
^WBCSPSROA
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROANOKE VA
315 PM EDT FRI JUL 25 1986
...HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...
AT 315 PM RADAR WAS SHOWING SCATTERED HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS OVER
PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA WITH MOST RAIN IN FLOYD..
PATRICK AND CARROLL COUNTIES. THESE STORMS DO NOT APPEAR
SEVERE BUT ARE RATHER SLOW MOVING AND COULD DUMP QUITE A BIT
OF RAIN IN A SHORT TIME.
PERSONS IN THOSE LOW LYING OR DRAINAGE AREAS NORMALLY PRONE TO
FLOODING SHOULD STAY ALERT IF HEAVY RAINS CONTINUE AND KEEP
TUNED TO BROADCAST MEDIA AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO IN THE EVENT
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS NECESSARY.
$$HM
0The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rowan | 60 min |
| Jul 25, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Yadkin | 65 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.