Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 148, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1995, 11:28 PM EDT for Iredell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 1995, 11:28 PM EDT (03:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 1995, 12:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Iredell County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 2693 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 665 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Blacksburg, VA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 26, 8:52 PM EDT, 2 hours 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 8:52 PM EDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 850 PM EDT MON JUN 26 1995 DISCUSSION... HAVE LITTLE TO OFFER TNT FOR UPDTS. KFCX RADAR SHOWS MOST PCPN OVR PIEDMONT AREA AND NW NC MTNS. VIL JUMPED TO 57 OVR WILKES CNTY...BUT THINK THAT THIS IS EXCEPTION. HVY RAF IS PROBLEM. PREFER TO KEEP MNTN OF HVY RAF IN TNT. DESROSIERS
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 26, 9:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
936 PM EDT SUN JUN 25 1995
DATE/TIME COUNTY/CITY EVENT
850 PM WILKES NC TREES DOWNED ON HIGHWAY
J 16. ALSO...WATER REPORTED
TO A DEPTH OF 2 FEET ON
THE ROAD.
DSDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 8:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Campbell | 2 hr |
| Jun 26, 11:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Alleghany, Botetourt | 2 hr |
| Jun 27, 1:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Buckingham | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 4:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Charles City | 2 hr |
| Jun 27, 5:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Halifax | 2 hr |
| Jun 27, 6:04 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Giles | 56 min |
| Jun 27, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Giles | 56 min |
| Jun 27, 6:53 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Giles | 97 min |
| Jun 26, 8:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Wilkes | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 8:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Wilkes | 60 min |
| Jun 26, 9:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Surry | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 11:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Wilkes, Yadkin | 119 min |
| Jun 27, 12:22 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Davie, Rowan | 68 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.