Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1992, 6:55 PM EDT for Forsyth County, Guilford County, North Carolina. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1992, 6:55 PM EDT (22:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1992, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Forsyth County, NC, Guilford County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 11 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
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 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, Jun 8, 2:17 PM EDT, 4 hours 38 minutes before
VAZ008-009-013>016-081900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROANOKE VA 215 PM EDT MON JUN 8 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA... AT 2 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED AREAS OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE COUNTIES OF GILES..CARROLL..AND FRANKLIN IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA MOVING NORTH EAST AT 20 MPH. SOME OF THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS..ALSO DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. WITH THE GROUND ALREADY SATURATED HEAVY AMOUNTS OF RAIN WILL LIKELY PRODUCE FLOODING OF SMALL STREAM AND CREEKS. PEOPLE LIVING IN FLOOD PRONG AREAS IN THESE COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RISING WATER AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. CG
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 3:46 PM EDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before
VAZ008-009-013>016-082300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROANOKE VA 345 PM EDT MON JUN 8 1992 ...LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE NEW RIVER VALLEY.. AT 330 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE COUNTIES OF CRAIG..MONTGOMERY..AND PULASKI IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS CREEKS AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS. PEOPLE LIVING IN FLOOD PRONG AREAS IN THESE COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RISING WATER AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. THIS LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING INTO THE COUNTIES OF FLOYD ROANOKE AND BOTETOURT WITHIN THE HOUR. CG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 4:11 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Botetourt, Roanoke | 84 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992
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.