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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Blacksburg, VA

June 27, 1995Davie County, Rowan County, North Carolina

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 1995, 12:22 AM EDT for Davie County, Rowan County, North Carolina. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 27, 1995, 12:22 AM EDT (04:22 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 1995, 1:30 AM EDT
In force: 68 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Davie County, NC, Rowan County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 66 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KGSO 270423 RRA
SVRGSO
NCC059-159-270530-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC
1222 AM EDT TUE JUN 27 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENSBORO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  130 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...DAVIE COUNTY...ROWAN COUNTY
 
AT 1215 AM EDT DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN DAVIE
AND ROWAN COUNTIES. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED DAMAGING WINDS IN ROWAN
AND IREDELL COUNTIES. TREES HAVE BEEN REPORTED ACROSS ROADS IN BOTH
COUNTIES. THIS STORM IS MOVING SLOWLY EAST ABOUT 10 MPH.
 
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
 
RWN

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, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 8:52 PM EDT, 3 hours 30 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, 2 hours 44 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.

DSD

Local storm report, Jun 27, 12:00 AM EDT, 22 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
1201 AM EDT TUE JUN 27 1995

DATE/TIME           COUNTY/CITY              EVENT

1135 PM             BLUE SPRINGS RUN IN      SHERIFF REPORTS
                    SE ALLEGHANY, VA         SEVERAL CREEKS
                                             CAME UP OUT OF THEIR
                                             BANKS VERY QUICKLY
                                             BLOCKING LOCAL ROADS.
                                             THE TOWN IS AT THE
                                             JUNCTION OF RTES 18 AND
                                             618.

DSD

Local storm report, Jun 27, 12:01 AM EDT, 21 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
1201 AM EDT TUE JUN 27 1995

DATE/TIME           COUNTY/CITY              EVENT

1135 PM             BLUE SPRINGS RUN IN      SHERIFF REPORTS
                    SE ALLEGHANY, VA         SEVERAL CREEKS
                                             CAME UP OUT OF THEIR
                                             BANKS VERY QUICKLY
                                             BLOCKING LOCAL ROADS.
                                             THE TOWN IS AT THE
                                             JUNCTION OF RTES 18 AND
                                             618.

DSD

The office that day

Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
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, 11:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Iredell	62 min
Jun 26, 11:31 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Wilkes, Yadkin	119 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.