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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this tornado warning at Jul 7, 2005, 5:10 PM EDT for Caswell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 28 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
- Jul 7, 2005, 5:10 PM EDT (21:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2005, 5:38 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Caswell County, NC
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 3:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- 309 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1315 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KRNK 072110 TORRNK NCC033-072200- /O.NEW.KRNK.TO.W.0010.050707T2110Z-050707T2200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 510 PM EDT THU JUL 7 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CASWELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 600 PM EDT * AT 508 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES WEST OF PELHAM...OR ABOUT 2 MILES EAST OF MAYFIELD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... PELHAM... PROVIDENCE... BLANCH... PLEASE 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 3653 7950 3634 7951 3648 7917 3654 7924 $$ PEM
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS51 KRNK 072138 SVSRNK SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 538 PM EDT THU JUL 7 2005 NCC033-072148- /O.CAN.KRNK.TO.W.0010.000000T0000Z-050707T2200Z/ CASWELL NC- 538 PM EDT THU JUL 7 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CASWELL COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE SEVERE STORM HAS MOVED NORTHEAST INTO PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA. LAT...LON 3653 7950 3634 7951 3648 7917 3654 7924 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 11:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Wilkes | 24 min |
| Jul 7, 11:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Wilkes | 31 min |
| Jul 7, 2:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Wilkes | 38 min |
| Jul 7, 3:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Stokes | 56 min |
| Jul 7, 3:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Rockingham | 35 min |
| Jul 7, 4:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Stokes | 31 min |
| Jul 7, 4:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Rockingham | 48 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.