Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2000, 2:57 PM EDT for Surry County, Yadkin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 33 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
- Jun 3, 2000, 2:57 PM EDT (18:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2000, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Surry County, NC, Yadkin County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 3:05 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | East Bend, 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, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 342 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -163 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1525 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
154 WUUS51 KRNK 031858 SVRRNK NCC171-197-031930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 257 PM EDT SAT JUN 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN YADKIN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA... SOUTHEASTERN SURRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA... * UNTIL 330 PM EDT. * AT 250 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF EAST BEND...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. HAIL UP TO AN INCH AND ONE HALF IN DIAMETER CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. WIND GUSTS UP TO 65 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. SOME LOCATIONS THREATENED THROUGH 330 PM EDT INCLUDE EAST BEND... <<CALL TO ACTION>>IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. $$ LAT...LON 3638 8059 3622 8070 3609 8047 3626 8038 MG NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 8:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rockingham | 30 min |
| Jun 2, 9:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Caswell | 40 min |
| Jun 3, 2:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Wilkes | 59 min |
| Jun 3, 3:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rockingham | 49 min |
| Jun 3, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Surry | 40 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.