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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Blacksburg, VA

March 27, 1994Alamance County, Guilford County, North Carolina

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this tornado warning at Mar 27, 1994, 7:36 PM EST for Alamance County, Guilford County, North Carolina. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 27, 1994, 7:36 PM EST (00:36 UTC)
Expired
Mar 27, 1994, 8:30 PM EST
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Alamance County, NC, Guilford County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 28 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 00:00Z on 1994-03-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 289 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1994-03-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 615 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
289 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
754 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
71 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
615 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
772 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KGSO 280036
TORGSO
NCC001-081-280130-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC
736 PM EST SUN MAR 27 1994

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES

   IN THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
      ALAMANCE...SOUTHEAST GUILFORD

AT 733 PM A TORNADO WAS IN NORTHEAST RANDOLPH COUNTY AND WILL
SHORTLY MOVE ACROSS SOUTHEAST GUILFORD COUNTY AND INTO ALAMANCE
COUNTY.  THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 45 MPH AND
HAS DROPPED TREES OVER MOBILE HOMES IN RANDOLPH COUNTY.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.

 IF THREATENING WEATHER APPBROACHES..YOU SHOULD GO TO A SAFE PLACE
 IMMEDIATELY.  WHEN IT IS SAFE..ASK YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFOREMENT
 AGENCY TO RELAY YOUR SEVERE WEATHER REPORT TO THE LOCAL NATIONAL
 WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE.

 RBN

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, 7:43 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, 7:35 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKDavidson, Rowan40 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

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.