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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Blacksburg, VA

March 28, 1994Davidson County, Rowan County, North Carolina

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 1994, 7:35 AM EST for Davidson County, Rowan County, North Carolina. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 28, 1994, 7:35 AM EST (12:35 UTC)
Expired
Mar 28, 1994, 8:15 AM EST
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Davidson County, NC, Rowan County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 58 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 1994-03-28Temperature 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 1994-03-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 274 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
595 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
102 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
274 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
533 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 
TTAA00 KGSO 281237
SVRGSO
NCC057-159-281315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC
735 AM EST MON MAR 28 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENSBORO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...DAVIDSON COUNTY...EASTERN ROWAN COUNTY
 
AT 735 AM RADAR SHOWED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO SOUTHEAST
ROWAN COUNTY FROM CABARRUS COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST
AT55 TO 60 MPH.
 
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..V.SOMETIMES BUILDINGS. VERY LARGE HAIL CAN
INJURE ANYONE CAUGHT OUTSIDE.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 27, 7:02 PM ESTTornado WarningRNKDavidson, Randolph43 min
Mar 27, 7:33 PM ESTTornado WarningRNKDavidson, Rowan27 min
Mar 27, 7:36 PM ESTTornado WarningRNKAlamance, Guilford54 min
Mar 27, 7:43 PM ESTTornado WarningRNKAlexander, Iredell47 min
Mar 27, 8:05 PM ESTTornado WarningRNKRandolph40 min
Mar 27, 8:37 PM ESTTornado WarningRNKAlamance38 min
Mar 28, 7:06 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKRowan24 min
Mar 28, 7:52 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKRandolph38 min
Mar 28, 8:00 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKGuilford30 min
Mar 28, 4:35 PM ESTTornado WarningRNKAlexander55 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.