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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Blacksburg, VA

March 28, 1994Alexander County, North Carolina

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this tornado warning at Mar 28, 1994, 4:35 PM EST for Alexander County, North Carolina. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 28, 1994, 4:35 PM EST (21:35 UTC)
Expired: Mar 28, 1994, 5:30 PM EST
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Whole counties

County Alexander County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 595 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 102 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 274 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 533 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KGSO 282136 RRA
TORGSO
NCC003-282205-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC
435 PM EST MON MAR 28 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENSBORO HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...ALEXANDER COUNTY
 
AT 433 PM EST...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED ON THE GROUND NEAR GRACE CHAPEL
IN CALDWELL COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA.
 
THIS TORNADO WILL CROSS INTO SOUTHWESTERN ALEXANDER COUNTY...VERY CLOSE
TO BETHLEHEM...VERY SHRTLY.
 
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 YOU,R HEAD. DO NOT GO NEAR DOORS OR WINDOWS. GET
OUT OF MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. GET INTO A STURDY BUILDING OR A
DITCH.
 
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 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

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.