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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Blacksburg, VA

November 22, 1992Davidson County, North Carolina

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this tornado warning at Nov 22, 1992, 11:43 PM EST for Davidson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 22, 1992, 11:43 PM EST (04:43 UTC)
Expired
Nov 23, 1992, 12:15 AM EST
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area
Whole counties

County Davidson County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 43 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 1992-11-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 576 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 1992-11-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 274 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
576 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
557 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
274 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
354 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.0
Supercell composite
4.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KGSO 230443
TORGSO
NCC057-230515-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC
1143 PM EST SUN NOV 22 1992

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY

   IN THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
      NORTHERN DAVIDSON

AT 1141 PM A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR THE DAVIDSON AND
DAVIE COUNTY LINE WEST OF LEXINGTON MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT
50 MPH.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.

 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.

 RBN

What 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, Nov 22, 5:49 PM EST, 5 hours 54 minutes before
VAZ008-009-013>016-230100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROANOKE VIRGINIA
645 PM EST SUN NOV 22 1992

...HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND SCATTERD THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...

AT 640 PM RADAR SHOWS SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IN PULASKI MONTGOMERY
AND CRAIG COUNTIES IN VIRGINIA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE
NORTHEAST. ALSO AUTOMATIC RAIN GAUGES SHOW SOME HEAVY DOWNPOURS.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS AND OTHERS THAT DEVELOP COULD CAUSE STORNG GUSTY
WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. HEAVY DOWNPOURS COULD CAUSE SOME LOW
AREA FLOODING AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING. ANYONE IN THESE AREAS SHOULD
BE ON THE LOOKOUT IN CASE SOME FLOODING OCCURS.
END/CE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 22, 9:26 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRNKAlleghany3 hr
Nov 22, 10:50 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKIredell25 min
Nov 22, 11:14 PM ESTTornado WarningRNKDavie, Rowan31 min
Nov 22, 11:30 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKForsyth, Yadkin45 min
Nov 23, 12:04 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKGuilford, Rockingham, Stokes56 min
Nov 23, 12:37 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKCaswell68 min
Nov 23, 12:51 AM ESTTornado WarningRNKDavidson, Rowan54 min
Nov 23, 1:25 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKAlamance35 min
Nov 23, 1:58 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKAlamance, Caswell47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.