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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Blacksburg, VA

March 27, 1994Davidson County, North Carolina

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 27, 1994, 6:49 PM EST for Davidson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 41 min.

The area

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The facts

Issued
Mar 27, 1994, 6:49 PM EST (23:49 UTC)
Expired
Mar 27, 1994, 7:30 PM EST
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area
Whole counties

County Davidson County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 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 12:00Z on 1994-03-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1994-03-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 542 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
534 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
542 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
777 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
Mar 27, 5:47 PM ESTTornado WarningRNKIredell28 min
Mar 27, 6:08 PM ESTTornado WarningRNKRowan52 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.