Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this tornado warning at Aug 16, 1994, 7:04 PM EDT for Iredell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 26 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 16, 1994, 7:04 PM EDT (23:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 1994, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Iredell County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 625 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGSO 162306 TORGSO NCC097-162330- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC 704 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENSBORO HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA ...NORTH CENTRAL IREDELL COUNTY AT 700 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN NORTHERN IREDELL COUNTY TO THE NORTH OF STATESVILLE. COUNTY ATUTHORITIES ALSO REPORTED FUNNEL CLOUDS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS STORM. THE STORM IS MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 20 MPH. TORNADOES IN TROPICAL WEATHER SYSTEMS USUALLY DEVELOP QUICKLY... MOVE RAPIDLY...AND CAN OCCUR REPEATEDLY FROM THE SAME BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA AND ARE CLOSE TO A THUNDERSTORM...TAKE COVER UNTIL IT PASSES. GTR
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Aug 16, 2:33 PM EDT, 4 hours 31 minutes before
VAC009-019-031-515-590-680-143-162130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LYNCHBURG VA 233 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 1994 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 AM WED AUG 17... AT 225 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWS A WIDESPREAD AREA OF LIGHT RAIN AND A FEW SHOWERS. MOST OF THE RAIN IS IN NORTHERN BEDFORD AND NEARLY ALL OF AMHERST COUNTIES. A COUPLE OF SHOWERS IN NORTHERN CAMPBELL COUNTY NEAR RUSTBURG BEING THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL. RAINFALL AMOUNTS FOR THE PAST SIX HOURS AT LYNCHBURG HAVE BEEN JUST OVER ONE HALF AN INCH (.60). RAINFALL AMOUNTS FOR THE AREA ARE NOT ENOUGH YET TO WORRY ABOUT FLOODING YET THIS COULD CHANGE AS THE REMAINS OF TROPICAL STORM BERYL MOVE THROUGH THE MID ATLANTIC STATES OVERNIGHT. PEOPLE IN LOW LYING AREAS SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. DEVAULT NNNN
Special weather statement, Aug 16, 2:33 PM EDT, 4 hours 31 minutes before
VAC009-019-031-515-590-680-143-162130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LYNCHBURG VA 233 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 1994 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 AM WED AUG 17... AT 225 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWS A WIDESPREAD AREA OF LIGHT RAIN AND A FEW SHOWERS. MOST OF THE RAIN IS IN NORTHERN BEDFORD AND NEARLY ALL OF AMHERST COUNTIES. A COUPLE OF SHOWERS IN NORTHERN CAMPBELL COUNTY NEAR RUSTBURG BEING THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL. RAINFALL AMOUNTS FOR THE PAST SIX HOURS AT LYNCHBURG HAVE BEEN JUST OVER ONE HALF AN INCH (.60). RAINFALL AMOUNTS FOR THE AREA ARE NOT ENOUGH YET TO WORRY ABOUT FLOODING YET THIS COULD CHANGE AS THE REMAINS OF TROPICAL STORM BERYL MOVE THROUGH THE MID ATLANTIC STATES OVERNIGHT. PEOPLE IN LOW LYING AREAS SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. DEVAULT NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 5:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Davidson | 28 min |
| Aug 16, 6:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Davidson, Davie | 36 min |
| Aug 16, 7:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Davie, Forsyth, Yadkin | 39 min |
Nearby
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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.