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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Blacksburg, VA

May 10, 1995Rowan County, North Carolina

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this tornado warning at May 10, 1995, 8:26 PM EDT for Rowan County, North Carolina. It was in force for 19 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 10, 1995, 8:26 PM EDT (00:26 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 1995, 8:45 PM EDT
In force
19 min
Issued by
NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area
Whole counties

County Rowan County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 75 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 1995-05-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1222 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 1995-05-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 180 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1222 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
921 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
180 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
196 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.7
Supercell composite
3.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KGSO 110026
TORGSO
NCC159-110100-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC
826 PM EDT WED MAY 10 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY

   IN THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
      NORTHERN ROWAN

AT 824 PM A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING OUT OF EAST
CENTRAL IREDELL COUNTY AND INTO NORTHWESTERN ROWAN COUNTY.
THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 30 MPH
AND WILL MOVE THROUGH NORTHERN ROWAN COUNTY...AFFECTING
CLEVELAND AND OTHER COMMUNITIES NORTH OF SALISBURY...UNTIL
900 PM.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE IS IN
A BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...FIND SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS..PILLOWS..
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON MOBILE
HOMES FOR STRONGER STRUCTURES.

 IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES..YOU SHOULD GO TO A SAFE PLACE
 IMMEDIATELY.  WHEN IT IS SAFE..ASK YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFOREMENT
 AGENCY TO RELAY YOUR SEVERE WEATHER REPORT TO THE LOCAL NATIONAL
 WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 10, 8:15 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKIredell15 min
May 10, 8:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKCaswell, Rockingham43 min
May 10, 8:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKCaswell48 min
May 11, 5:05 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKRowan10 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.