Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1994, 7:28 PM EDT for Guilford County, Rockingham County, North Carolina. It was in force for 32 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 1994, 7:28 PM EDT (23:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1994, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Guilford County, NC, Rockingham County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 21 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
- 180 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -214 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 978 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KGSO 292329 RRA SVRGSO NCC081-157-300000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC 728 PM EDT WED JUN 29 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENSBORO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...NORTHERN GUILFORD COUNTY...SOUTHERN ROCKINGHAM COUNTY AT 725 PM RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHERN ROCKINGHAM AND NORTHWEST GUILFORD COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE ALERT FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN OCCUR WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM. ELJ
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 29, 4:51 PM EDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
VAZ032-033-043-292200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROANOKE VIRGINIA 451 PM EDT WED JUN 29 1994 ...STRONG STORM MOVES FROM NORTH CAROLINA INTO SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA... AT 445 PM EDT...WEATHER RADAR DETECTS A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHWEST PATRICK COUNTY...JUST NORTH OF CANA AND ALONG THE BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY. THE STORM IS MOVING EASTWARD AT NEAR 30 MPH AND WILL APPROACHING THE STUART AREA BY 515 PM. POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY WITH THE TRANSIT OF THE STORM. BEWARE OF DANGEROUS FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES AND TAKE SAFE SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. LISTEN TO NOA WEATHER RADIO FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND UPDATES. END/DOC
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 4:52 PM EDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before
VAZ032-033-043-292200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROANOKE VIRGINIA 451 PM EDT WED JUN 29 1994 ...STRONG STORM MOVES FROM NORTH CAROLINA INTO SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA... AT 445 PM EDT...WEATHER RADAR DETECTS A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHWEST PATRICK COUNTY...JUST NORTH OF CANA AND ALONG THE BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY. THE STORM IS MOVING EASTWARD AT NEAR 30 MPH AND WILL APPROACHING THE STUART AREA BY 515 PM. POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY WITH THE TRANSIT OF THE STORM. BEWARE OF DANGEROUS FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES AND TAKE SAFE SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. LISTEN TO NOA WEATHER RADIO FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND UPDATES. END/DOC
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 7:10 PM EDT, 18 minutes before
VAZ035-045-300015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROANOKE VIRGINIA 710 PM EDT WED JUN 29 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL AMHERST COUNTY... AT 710 PM EDT...WEATHER RADAR DETECTS A STRONG STORM MOVING INTO CENTRAL AMHERST COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF AMHERST. POSSIBLE HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE PASSAGE OF THIS STORM. THE STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT NEAR 35 MPH AND WILL BE APPROACHING THE NELSON COUNTY LINE NEAR US 29 BY 720 PM. PEOPLE SHOULD TAKE TO SAFE SHELTER UNTIL THIS STORM PASSES. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL TV OR RADIO STATION FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. CACCIAPAGLIA
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 7:11 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
VAZ035-045-300015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROANOKE VIRGINIA 710 PM EDT WED JUN 29 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL AMHERST COUNTY... AT 710 PM EDT...WEATHER RADAR DETECTS A STRONG STORM MOVING INTO CENTRAL AMHERST COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF AMHERST. POSSIBLE HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE PASSAGE OF THIS STORM. THE STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT NEAR 35 MPH AND WILL BE APPROACHING THE NELSON COUNTY LINE NEAR US 29 BY 720 PM. PEOPLE SHOULD TAKE TO SAFE SHELTER UNTIL THIS STORM PASSES. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL TV OR RADIO STATION FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. CACCIAPAGLIA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 10:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Davidson, Randolph | 32 min |
| Jun 28, 11:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Guilford, Randolph | 27 min |
| Jun 28, 11:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rockingham | 36 min |
| Jun 29, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alleghany, Wilkes | 29 min |
| Jun 29, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Wilkes | 36 min |
| Jun 29, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Stokes | 33 min |
| Jun 29, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rockingham, Stokes | 32 min |
| Jun 29, 7:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Iredell | 32 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.