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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Blacksburg, VA

May 28, 2000Yadkin County, North Carolina

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2000, 5:05 PM EDT for Yadkin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 25 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 28, 2000, 5:05 PM EDT (21:05 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2000, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Whole counties

County Yadkin County, NC

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 28, 4:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 69 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: 165 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -112 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 935 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 207 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

952 
WUUS51 KRNK 282106
SVRRNK
NCC197-282130-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
505 PM EDT SUN MAY 28 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN YADKIN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...

* UNTIL 530 PM EDT.

* AT 505 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF YADKINVILLE...MOVING EAST
  AT 25 MPH.

HAIL UP TO AN INCH IN DIAMETER CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

SOME LOCATIONS THREATENED THROUGH 530 PM EDT INCLUDE
  YADKINVILLE...

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.

$$
LAT...LON 3617 8086 3599 8091 3586 8030 3610 8024

PEM

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 9:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Caswell	40 min
May 28, 5:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Stokes	37 min
May 28, 6:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Rockingham	56 min
May 28, 6:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Stokes	48 min
May 28, 7:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Rockingham	34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2000 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.