Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this tornado warning at Mar 19, 1992, 2:51 PM EST for Davidson County, Rowan County, North Carolina. It was in force for 54 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
- Mar 19, 1992, 2:51 PM EST (19:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 1992, 3:45 PM EST
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Davidson County, NC, Rowan County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 3:05 PM EST | Hail 0.75 | Davidson, 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 58 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
- 597 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 2:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Davie, Rowan | 49 min |
| Mar 19, 3:20 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RNK | Randolph | 40 min |
Nearby
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.