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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Blacksburg, VA

June 15, 1994Rockingham County, North Carolina

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1994, 8:17 PM EDT for Rockingham County, North Carolina. It was in force for 28 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 15, 1994, 8:17 PM EDT (00:17 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 1994, 8:45 PM EDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area
Whole counties

County Rockingham County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 37 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 1994-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 832 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 00:00Z on 1994-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 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
832 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1513 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KGSO 160018 RRA
SVRGSO
NCC157-160045-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC
817 PM EDT WED JUN 15 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENSBORO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  845 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...ROCKINGHAM COUNTY
 
AT 815 PM...RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL AND
WESTERN ROCKINGHAM COUNTY...BETWEEN WENTWORTH AND THE STOKES COUNTY
BORDER...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH.
 
THIS THUNDERSTORM DOWNED TREES ALONG WOLF ISLAND ROAD WITHIN THE
PAST 10 MINUTES.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WINDS CAN REACH SPEEDS OF 60 MPH TO OVER 100
MPH. THESE WINDS BLOW DOWN TREES...POWER LINES...AND SEVERELY
DAMAGE MOBILE HOMES...SOMETIMES BUILDINGS. VERY LARGE HAIL CAN
INJURE ANYONE CAUGHT OUTSIDE.
 
SR

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, Jun 15, 2:42 PM EDT, 5 hours 35 minutes before
VAZ035-059-046-058-034-044-045-152045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LYNCHBURG VA
242 PM EDT WED JUN 15 1994

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT...
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING THROUGHOUT SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA...

AT 233 PM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF
THE COMMOMWEALTH...NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA AND WEST CENTRAL WEST
VIRGINIA. THE STRONG ACTIVITY WAS LOCATED TO THE NORTHEAST IN HANOVER
COUNTY...THE NORTHWEST IN POCAHONTAS COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA AND TO THE
SOUTHWEST IN PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY NEAR SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKE. THESE STORMS
ARE MOVING SLOWLY IF AT ALL AND ARE PRODUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS.

PERSONS IN THE VICINTY OF THESE STORMS USE CAUTION WHEN DRIVING IN LOW
LYING OR FLOOD PRONE AREA. AVOID DRIVING THROUGH WATER THAT COVERS THE
ROADWAYS.

MEADOWS

NNNN
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 2:42 PM EDT, 5 hours 35 minutes before
VAZ035-059-046-058-034-044-045-152045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LYNCHBURG VA
242 PM EDT WED JUN 15 1994

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT...
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING THROUGHOUT SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA...

AT 233 PM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF
THE COMMOMWEALTH...NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA AND WEST CENTRAL WEST
VIRGINIA. THE STRONG ACTIVITY WAS LOCATED TO THE NORTHEAST IN HANOVER
COUNTY...THE NORTHWEST IN POCAHONTAS COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA AND TO THE
SOUTHWEST IN PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY NEAR SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKE. THESE STORMS
ARE MOVING SLOWLY IF AT ALL AND ARE PRODUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS.

PERSONS IN THE VICINTY OF THESE STORMS USE CAUTION WHEN DRIVING IN LOW
LYING OR FLOOD PRONE AREA. AVOID DRIVING THROUGH WATER THAT COVERS THE
ROADWAYS.

MEADOWS

NNNN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 8:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKRockingham29 min
Jun 16, 2:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKDavidson, Forsyth45 min
Jun 16, 2:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKGuilford44 min
Jun 16, 4:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKGuilford, Rockingham66 min
Jun 16, 6:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKCaswell50 min
Jun 16, 6:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKAlamance40 min
Jun 16, 7:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKForsyth46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994

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.