Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 1, 1993, 3:02 AM EST for Rowan County, North Carolina. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 1, 1993, 3:02 AM EST (08:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 1, 1993, 3:30 AM EST
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rowan County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
- 195 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 710 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 316 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 31, 9:10 PM EST, 5 hours 52 minutes before
VAZ008-009-010400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROANOKE VIRGINIA 910 PM EST WED MAR 31 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING THROUGH HENRY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST PIEDMONT... AT 9 PM EST RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR MARTINSVILLE IN HENRY COUNTY VIRGINIA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. THIS STORM WILL BE MOVING INTO SOUTHEAST FRANKLIN COUNTY WITHIN THE HOUR. CG
Special weather statement, Mar 31, 9:18 PM EST, 5 hours 44 minutes before
VAZ008-009-010400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROANOKE VIRGINIA 910 PM EST WED MAR 31 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING THROUGH HENRY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST PIEDMONT... AT 9 PM EST RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR MARTINSVILLE IN HENRY COUNTY VIRGINIA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. THIS STORM WILL BE MOVING INTO SOUTHEAST FRANKLIN COUNTY WITHIN THE HOUR. CG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 8:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Forsyth, Stokes, Yadkin | 63 min |
| Mar 31, 10:55 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RNK | Alamance | 40 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993
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.