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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Blacksburg, VA

March 27, 1994Alamance County, North Carolina

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this tornado warning at Mar 27, 1994, 8:37 PM EST for Alamance County, North Carolina. It was in force for 38 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 27, 1994, 8:37 PM EST (01:37 UTC)
Expired: Mar 27, 1994, 9:15 PM EST
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Whole counties

County Alamance County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 45 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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 280140
TORGSO
NCC001-280215-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC
837 PM EST SUN MAR 27 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENSBORO HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...SOUTHERN ALAMANCE COUNTY
 
AT 835 PM EST RADAR SHOWED A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO THE
LIBERTY AREA IN NORTHEASTERN RANDOLPH COUNTY.
 
THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 45 MPH AND
WILL CROSS INTO SOUTHERN ALAMANCE COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT 10 MINUTES.
 
THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS PRODUCED A DAMAGING TORNADO IN RANDOLPH COUNTY.
 
THIS STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH AREAS BETWEEN THE RANDOLPH COUNTY LINE AND
SNOW CAMP...AND BETWEEN SNOW CAMP AND THE HAW RIVER NEAR THE ORANGE
COUNTY LINE...DURING THE NEXT 20 TO 30 MINUTES.
 
PEOPLE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
ACTION TO PRJOTECT 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 BUILDING OR A
DITCH.
 
TAKE COVER IMMDIATELY!!
 
SR

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, 7:43 PM EST	Tornado Warning	RNK	Alexander, Iredell	47 min
Mar 27, 8:05 PM EST	Tornado Warning	RNK	Randolph	40 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

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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.