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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Blacksburg, VA

May 29, 1993Guilford County, Rockingham County, Stokes County, North Carolina

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1993, 6:48 PM EDT for Guilford County, Rockingham County, Stokes County, North Carolina. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 29, 1993, 6:48 PM EDT (22:48 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 1993, 7:45 PM EDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Guilford County, NC, Rockingham County, NC, Stokes County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 24 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 12:00Z on 1993-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 209 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1993-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -41 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
209 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1166 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 5:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKRandolph68 min
May 29, 7:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKForsyth, Guilford69 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.