Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 143, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1998, 3:02 PM EDT for Wilkes County, North Carolina. It was in force for 48 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 1998, 3:02 PM EDT (19:02 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1998, 3:50 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wilkes County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 3:23 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Wilkesboro, NC |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 186 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 540 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, 2:45 PM EDT, 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 27, 2:45 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 245 PM EDT WED MAY 27 1998 DISC... A FEW TSTMS OVR NC FOOTHILLS AND IN THE FAR SW PTN OF RNK CWA. NOT SURPRISING THAT THERE WE BE SOME STUFF IN VA... SAT PICS SHOW THAT THERE HAVE BEEN SVRL HRS OF SUNSHINE IN THIS AREA. FURTHER NORTH...LINE OF DIMINISHING SHRWS PERSISTS FM ARND TAZEWELL TO HIGHLANDS TO CNTRL VA. LOW LVL CLDS AND COLR TEMPS HAVE PERSISTED THRU THE ERLY AFTN IN CNTRL VA AND NCNTRL NC...BUT SRN EDGE OF THESE CLDS BEGINNING TO ERODE. THIS CD BE A PROBLEM AREA LTR IF THIS TREND CONTS. WEAK S/WV STILL TO CROSS THE FA DURG THE LATE AFTN/ERLY EVE... THIS SHD HELP EHNANCE CRNT ACTIVITY AND MAYBE SPARK A FEW SHRWS ELSEWERE. WD LIKE TO CONT CHC POPS THRU THE EVENING AS I THINK ALL AREAS TO BE AFFECTED ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. AFTR THIS AFTN...BLDG HGHTS SHD FORCE THE ACTION NORTH OF THE CWA... LEAVING DRYER AND WARMER CONDITIONS ACRS THE CWA FOR THE LATTER PART OF THE WEEK. PUT FOG IN THE TAFS FOR TNT...THINK ERODING CLDS WL PERMIT SOME RADIATION AND GRND WET FM THE PCPN. TEMP PROFILES NOT PROGGED TO CHG A WHILE LOT IN THE SHORT TERM... AT LEAST PER THE NGM WHICH GOT MORE WEIGHT TODAY DUE TO IT/S MORE COMPLETE RAOB INPUT. SCTD CU LIKELY TMRW. PTLY CLDY AGAIN FRI. FWC TEMPS LUK RSNBL... MAYBE A SHADE TO HIGH ON FRI AT ROA/BLF. ROA 56/83/59/89 3000 RNK 53/77/55/82 3000 LYH 57/82/60/90 3000 BLF 54/78/57/83 3000 DAN 63/84/63/92 3000 DESROSIERS
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 27, 12:10 PM EDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, May 27, 12:40 PM EDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
NCZ001>006-018>020-VAZ007-009>020-022>024-032>035-043>047-058- 059-WVZ042>045-272205- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED TYPO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 1240 PM EDT WED MAY 27 1998 ...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER TODAY ACROSS NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTHERN VIRGINIA... A VERY SLOW MOVING FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL LIFT NORTH ACROSS NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON AS LOW PRESSURE TRACKS EAST FROM TENNESSEE INTO SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG AND NEAR THE FRONT TODAY. MEANWHILE ...DAYTIME HEATING WILL INCREASE THE INSTABILITY OF THE ATMOSPHERE ACROSS THE RISK AREA...HELPING TO INTENSIFY THE ACTIVITY. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL POSSIBLE. IN ADDITION... THE WINDS THROUGH THE LOWER PORTION OF THE ATMOSPHERE ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ISOLATED TORNADOES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND FOR POSSIBLE WATCHES AND WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON. JDS/DSD
Special weather statement, May 27, 12:40 PM EDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
NCZ001>006-018>020-VAZ007-009>020-022>024-032>035-043>047-058- 059-WVZ042>045-272205- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED TYPO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 1240 PM EDT WED MAY 27 1998 ...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER TODAY ACROSS NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTHERN VIRGINIA... A VERY SLOW MOVING FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL LIFT NORTH ACROSS NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON AS LOW PRESSURE TRACKS EAST FROM TENNESSEE INTO SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG AND NEAR THE FRONT TODAY. MEANWHILE ...DAYTIME HEATING WILL INCREASE THE INSTABILITY OF THE ATMOSPHERE ACROSS THE RISK AREA...HELPING TO INTENSIFY THE ACTIVITY. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL POSSIBLE. IN ADDITION... THE WINDS THROUGH THE LOWER PORTION OF THE ATMOSPHERE ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ISOLATED TORNADOES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND FOR POSSIBLE WATCHES AND WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON. JDS/DSD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 8:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Stokes | 36 min |
| May 27, 3:51 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Stokes | 34 min |
| May 27, 4:21 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Rockingham | 49 min |
| May 27, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Surry | 50 min |
| May 27, 5:03 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Surry | 62 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.