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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this tornado warning at Aug 16, 1994, 7:21 PM EDT for Davie County, Forsyth County, Yadkin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 39 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 16, 1994, 7:21 PM EDT (23:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 1994, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Davie County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Yadkin County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 53 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 162325 COR TORGSO NCC059-067-197-170000- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC 721 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENSBORO HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...DAVIE COUNTY...WESTERN FORSYTH COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA ...EASTERN YADKIN COUNTY AT 719 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM BETWEEN MOCKSVILLE AND THE YADKIN RIVER ALONG THE BORDER BETWEEN FORSYTH AND DAVIDSON COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM PRODUCED TORNADOS IN WESTERN DAVIDSON COUNTY DURING THE PAST 45 MINUTES. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH NORTHWEST AT 25 MPH AND WILL AFFECT ADVANCE BY 725 PM...INTERSTATE 40 IN DAVIE COUNTY BY 735 PM...WEST BEND IN FORSYTH COUNTY BY 745 PM...AND YADKIN COUNTY FROM YADKINVILLE TO THE FORSYTH COUNTY BORDER BY 800 PM. PEOPLE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TO PROTECT THEIR LIVES. GO TO A BASEMENT...THE CENTER OF BUILDINGS...COVER YOUR HEAD. DO NOT GO NEAR DOORS OR WINDOWS. GET OUT OF MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. GET INTO A STURDY BUILDINGL OR A DITCH. ...CORRECTED FOR EXPIRATION TIME... SR N
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 48 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 48 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, 7:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Iredell | 26 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.