Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 20, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 1998, 7:48 PM EDT for Ashe County, North Carolina. It was in force for 52 min. 2 reports 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
- Jun 3, 1998, 7:48 PM EDT (23:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1998, 8:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ashe County, NC
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 8:25 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Lansing, NC | |
| Jun 3, 8:35 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Glendale Spgs, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 5:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2315 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KROA 032348 RRA TORRNK NCC009-040040- BULLETIN--EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 748 PM EDT WED JUN 3 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ASHE COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. * UNTIL 840 PM EDT. * AT 748 PM EDT... BLACKSBURG DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 10 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF BOONE OR 3 MILES WEST OF BALDWIN MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE IN THE VICINITY OF... BALDWIN AROUND 750 PM EDT.. FLEETWOOD AROUND 755 PM EDT.. OTHELLO AROUND 800 PM EDT.. IDLEWILD AROUND 800 PM EDT.. GLENDALE SPRINGS AROUND 805 PM EDT.. << CALL TO ACTION >> IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SAFETY IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK REFUGE IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD ^WITH YOUR HANDS. .END/DD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Stokes | 51 min |
| Jun 3, 6:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rockingham | 60 min |
| Jun 3, 6:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Rockingham | 44 min |
| Jun 3, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Caswell | 33 min |
| Jun 3, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Ashe | 50 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.