Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this tornado warning at Mar 10, 1992, 10:29 PM EST for Iredell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 31 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 10, 1992, 10:29 PM EST (03:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 1992, 11:00 PM EST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Iredell County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 760 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 85 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 262 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 110329
TORGSO
NCC097-110400-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC
1029 PM EST TUE MAR 10 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
IREDELL
AT 1027 PM A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS DETECTED BY RADAR MOVING TO THE
EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE IS IN
A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...FIND SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS..PILLOWS..
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON MOBILE
HOMES FOR STRONGER STRUCTURES.
IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES..YOU SHOULD GO TO A SAFE PLACE
IMMEDIATELY. WHEN IT IS SAFE..ASK YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFOREMENT
AGENCY TO RELAY YOUR SEVERE WEATHER REPORT TO THE LOCAL NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE.
GTRWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Mar 10, 8:48 PM EST, 1 hour 41 minutes before
VAZ008-009-013-014-015-016-110500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROANOKE VA 845 PM EST TUE MAR 10 1992 ...WINTER RETURNING TONIGHT FOR THE ROANOKE VALLEY AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES... ...SNOW ADVISORY FOR THOSE VIRGINIA COUNTIES NORTH AND WEST OF ROANOKE OVERNIGHT... ...LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MARCHING EASTWARD ACROSS SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTES A NEARLY SOLID BAND OF SHOWERS WITH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE NEW RIVER VALLEY SOUTHWARD INTO THE SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS. THE BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM HILLSVILLE IN CENTRAL CARROLL COUNTY NORTH ACROSS RADFORD AND ON NORTH INTO WEST VIRGINIA...NEAR WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR WILLIS IN SOUTHERN FLOYD COUNTY... AND JUST NORTH OF NEWPORT IN GILES COUNTY. . THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THE BAND WILL CONTINUE MOVING EASTWARD AND WILL BE MOVING ACROSS THE ROANOKE VALLEY BY 915 PM. TO THE WEST OF THIS ACTIVITY...A STRONG COLD FRONT CONTINUES ITS TRANSIT THROUGH THE CENTRAL APPALACHIANS. THE FRONT MOVED THROUGH THE BRISTOL AREA AROUND 700 PM. THE COLD FRONT WILL MOVE EAST OF THE NEW RIVER VALLEY BY 1000 PM. ALONG WITH FRONTAL PASSAGE...STRONG AND GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS WILL SWEEP ACROSS THE REGION WITH RAPIDLY FALLING TEMPERATURES. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THIS SPRING TO WINTER WEATHER EPISODE. CACCIAPAGLIA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 10:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Iredell | 38 min |
| Mar 10, 10:47 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RNK | Davie, Rowan | 43 min |
| Mar 10, 11:11 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RNK | Davidson, Forsyth | 49 min |
| Mar 10, 11:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Stokes | 33 min |
| Mar 10, 11:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Randolph | 46 min |
| Mar 10, 11:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Guilford | 36 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.