Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Blacksburg, VA
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 8:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rockingham | 29 min |
| Jun 16, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Davidson, Forsyth | 45 min |
| Jun 16, 2:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Guilford | 44 min |
| Jun 16, 4:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Guilford, Rockingham | 66 min |
| Jun 16, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Caswell | 50 min |
| Jun 16, 6:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alamance | 40 min |
| Jun 16, 7:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Forsyth | 46 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.