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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Blacksburg, VA

June 15, 1998Caswell County, North Carolina

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 1998, 3:48 PM EDT for Caswell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 52 min. 3 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 15, 1998, 3:48 PM EDT (19:48 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 1998, 4:40 PM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Whole counties

County Caswell County, NC

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Jun 15, 3:50 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Yanceyville, NC
Jun 15, 3:55 PM EDT	Hail 1.75	Bethel, NC
Jun 15, 3:55 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Bethel, 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 15, 2:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 62 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: 296 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1041 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

576 
WFUS01 KRNK 151950 RRA
TORRNK
NCC033-152040-

BULLETIN--EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
348 PM EDT MON JUN 15 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CASWELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA.

* UNTIL 440 PM EDT.

* AT 348 PM EDT... BLACKSBURG DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 12
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF DANVILLE OR 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF QUICK MOVING
  EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE IN THE VICINITY OF...
  BETHEL                          AROUND 355 PM EDT..
  YANCEYVILLE                     AROUND 410 PM EDT..
  HAMER                           AROUND 415 PM EDT..

<< CALL TO ACTION >> IF YOU LIVE IN A HOME OR APARTMENT...SEEK
REFUGE IN THE INTERMOST PORTION OF THE BUILDING ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR.  GET TO A BASEMENT IF ONE IS AVAILABLE.  AVOID WINDOWS AND
PROTECT YOURBODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS WITH CUSHIONS...BLANKETS...OR
PILLOWS.

.END/JDS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 12:41 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Yadkin	34 min
Jun 15, 2:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Stokes	34 min
Jun 15, 2:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Rockingham	50 min
Jun 15, 3:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Caswell	50 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.