Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this tornado warning at Mar 27, 1994, 7:43 PM EST for Alexander County, Iredell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 27, 1994, 7:43 PM EST (00:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 1994, 8:30 PM EST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Alexander County, NC, Iredell County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGSO 280043 TORGSO NCC003-097-280130- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC 743 PM EST SUN MAR 27 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENSBORO HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA ...EASTERN ALEXANDER COUNTY...NORTHERN IREDELL COUNTY AT 740 PM A TORNADO WAS IN EASTERN ALEXANDER COUNTY AND WILL MOVE INTO NORfTHERN IREDELL COUNTY. THE TORNADO MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 45 MPH. TORNADOES IN THE SOUTH ARE HARD TO SEE BECAUSE OF RAIN...LOW CLOUDS...AND TREES. TAKE COVER NOW...DO NOT TRY TO WAIT ON THE STORM AND DO NOT TRY TO OUTRUN IT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 7:02 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RNK | Davidson, Randolph | 43 min |
| Mar 27, 7:33 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RNK | Davidson, Rowan | 27 min |
| Mar 27, 7:36 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RNK | Alamance, Guilford | 54 min |
| Mar 27, 8:05 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RNK | Randolph | 40 min |
| Mar 27, 8:37 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RNK | Alamance | 38 min |
| Mar 28, 7:06 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rowan | 24 min |
| Mar 28, 7:35 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Davidson, Rowan | 40 min |
| Mar 28, 7:52 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Randolph | 38 min |
| Mar 28, 8:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Guilford | 30 min |
| Mar 28, 4:35 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RNK | Alexander | 55 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.