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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Blacksburg, VA

June 8, 2003Carroll County, Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 2003, 7:44 PM EDT for Carroll County, Virginia. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 2003, 7:44 PM EDT (23:44 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 2003, 8:15 PM EDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Carroll County, VA

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 105 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 12:00Z on 2003-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 614 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 12:00Z on 2003-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 50 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
614 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
487 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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The text

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

767 
WFUS51 KRNK 082344
TORRNK
VAC035-090015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
743 PM EDT SUN JUN 8 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN CARROLL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA

* UNTIL 815 PM EDT.

* AT 743 PM EDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR HILLSVILLE...
  MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS THREATENED THROUGH 815 PM EDT INCLUDE

  DUGSPUR...

THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WHICH
WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREA. GO TO A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR
ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR

RELAY SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING TOLL FREE...1...8 6 6...2 1 5...4 3 2 4.

LAT...LON 3685 8079 3668 8082 3665 8065 3675 8051
          3688 8059

$$

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 7:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKCarroll34 min
Jun 8, 7:49 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRNKCarroll116 min
Jun 8, 7:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNKTazewell31 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Virginia, 2003Every tornado warning in 2003Tornadoes in 2003

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.