Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 218, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 14, 2000, 8:56 PM EDT for Rockingham County, North Carolina. It was in force for 64 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
- Sep 14, 2000, 8:56 PM EDT (00:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 14, 2000, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rockingham County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 9:50 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Madison, 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 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 37 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
- 1960 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 968 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 237 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.0
- Supercell composite
- 13.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KRNK 150058 SVRRNK NCC157-150200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 856 PM EDT THU SEP 14 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ROCKINGHAM COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA... * UNTIL 1000 PM EDT. * AT 856 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF STONEVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. WINDS OF IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH ARE LIKELY. DOWNED TREES HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM OVER STOKES COUNTY. SOME LOCATIONS THREATENED THROUGH 1000 PM EDT INCLUDE MADISON... WENTWORTH... E|DEN... REIDSVILLE... MAYFIELD... REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. .END 09
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 Sep 14, 3:15 PM EDT, 5 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 14, 3:15 PM EDT, 5 hours 41 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG, VA 315 PM EDT THU SEP 14 2000 SFC CHART PLACED A BOUNDARY ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF FA THIS AFTERNOON. PREFRONTAL TROF WAS PUSHING INTO THE WESTERN SLOPES OF WEST VIRGINIA. MAIN COLD FRONT EXTENDED FROM MI SOUTHWEST TO SOUTHERN MO. MOISTURE TONGUE OF DEWPOINTS AROUND 70 DEGREES WAS PUSHING NORTH ACROSS SOUTHEAST CORNER OF FA(SOUTHSIDE). MSAS COMP LIS INDICATED MINUS 2 TO MINUS 6 ACROSS CWA. THETA-E RIDGE WAS NOTED ALONG THE MOUNTAINS. FCTD SCAPES AROUND 1000 TO 2000 J/KG EXPECTED. KFCX 88D LOOP SHOWED SCT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH GREATEST COVERAGE IN SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SCOPE. THERE IS NOT THAT MUCH PCPN ALONG THE MAIN COLD FRONT TO OUR WEST AT THIS TIME. I EXPECTED COVERAGE TO BECOME MORE NUMEROUS AS THE AFTERNOON PROGRESSES. SHORTWAVE LIFTING NORTH OUT OFF NC WILL HELP KICK OFF CONVECTION. I PLAN ON LEANING TOWARDS THE AVN SOLUTION. THE AVN IS SLOWER IN LIFTING THE UPPER LOW IN THE NORTHEAST NEWD. IN ADDITION... ITS ASSOCIATED SURFACE LOW IS MORE WRAPPED UP TOWARDS THE CENTER OF THE UPPER LOW...AND ITS TIMING OF SFC COLD FRONT IS SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT THAN ETA/NGM. GOING TO LEAVE TIMING OF COLD FRONT SIMILIAR TO PREVIOUS PACKAGE TONIGHT INTO FRIDAY. STRONG COLD ADVECTION ANTICIPATED ON FRIDAY AND WILL PLAY ZONES ACCORDINGLY...DOWNSLOPING WINDS ETC. TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT WITH THIS SYSTEM SO WILL ADD WINDY/BREEZY TO FRIDAY. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD IN DURING THE WEEKEND. EARLY NEXT WEEK HIGH CENTER WILL SLIDE EAST AND WARMING TREND EXPECTED. SOME OF THE EXTENDED MODELS ARE STILL RETURNING MOISTURE FOR TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. ZONE WILL BE AVIALABLE BY 345 PM. HAVE A GOOD NIGHT. .RNK... NC...NONE. VA...NONE. WV...NONE. 07
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 8:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Stokes | 41 min |
| Sep 14, 9:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Stokes | 47 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.