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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Blacksburg, VA
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.
- 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
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.
RBNWhat 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 22, 9:26 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Alleghany | 3 hr |
| Nov 22, 10:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Iredell | 25 min |
| Nov 22, 11:14 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RNK | Davie, Rowan | 31 min |
| Nov 22, 11:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Forsyth, Yadkin | 45 min |
| Nov 23, 12:04 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Guilford, Rockingham, Stokes | 56 min |
| Nov 23, 12:37 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Caswell | 68 min |
| Nov 23, 12:51 AM EST | Tornado Warning | RNK | Davidson, Rowan | 54 min |
| Nov 23, 1:25 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alamance | 35 min |
| Nov 23, 1:58 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alamance, Caswell | 47 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.