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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Blacksburg, VA

June 15, 2000Caswell County, Rockingham County, North Carolina

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 2000, 8:50 PM EDT for Caswell County, Rockingham 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
Jun 15, 2000, 8:50 PM EDT (00:50 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 2000, 9:15 PM EDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Caswell County, NC, Rockingham County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 47 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2000-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3721 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2000-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 47 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
3721 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1211 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
98 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.2

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The text

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

815 
WFUS51 KRNK 160056 COR
TORRNK
NCC033-157-160115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED FOR STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
850 PM EDT THU JUN 15 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN ROCKINGHAM COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA...
  NORTHERN CASWELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA...

* UNTIL 915 PM EDT.

* AT 847 PM EDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO HARRISON 
  CROSSROADS BETWEEN EDEN AND REIDSVILLE...THE STORM WAS MOVING 
  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS THREATENED THROUGH 915 PM EDT INCLUDE

  YANCEYVILLE...
  PROVIDENCE...

$$

AMS

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 8:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKRockingham44 min
Jun 15, 10:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKRockingham, Stokes21 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.