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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Blacksburg, VA

May 27, 1996Yadkin County, North Carolina

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1996, 11:09 PM EDT for Yadkin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 66 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 27, 1996, 11:09 PM EDT (03:09 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 1996, 12:15 AM EDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Whole counties

County Yadkin County, NC

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 155 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: 532 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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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 May 27, 3:12 PM EDT, 7 hours 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 3:12 PM EDT, 7 hours 57 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
310 PM EDT MON MAY 27 1996

SUGGESTIONS...
NONE.

DISC...
WELL..I/VE BEEN TOO BUSY TO LOOK AT MUCH OTHER THAN THE ETA AND NGM
AS THEY CAME IN EARLIER. I/VE COORD WITH WBC ABOUT A FFA TONIGHT.
FFA IS ALREADY UP FOR MY CRW ZONES...AND IN THE NRN MTNS OF N.C.
CURRENT FCSTS SEEM TO BE ON THE RIGHT TRACK...LOOKED LIKE LESS OF A
CHC FOR RW & TSTMS IN THE MTNS TUE..BUT MAYBE MORE EAST OF THE BLUE
RIDGE. QSTNRY FRONT SHUD BE FURTHER NORTH & ACTION SHOULD BE NEAR

JJ

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 27, 5:23 PM EDT, 5 hours 46 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
525 PM EDT MON MAY 25 1996

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

444 PM     DOBSON                    NC   WIND DAMAGE
05/27/96   SURRY                          TREES DOWN AND BLOCKING
                                          ROAD

505 PM     FAIRPLAINS                NC   0.75 INCH HAIL
5/27/96    WILKES                         3 N OF WILKESBORO.
                                          REPORTED BY COUNTY
                                          SHERIFF.

DESROSIERS

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.