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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Blacksburg, VA

July 7, 2005Stokes County, North Carolina

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this tornado warning at Jul 7, 2005, 3:04 PM EDT for Stokes County, North Carolina. It was in force for 56 min. 8 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 7, 2005, 3:04 PM EDT (19:04 UTC)
Expired: Jul 7, 2005, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Stokes County, NC

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 7, 3:30 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Tobaccoville, NC	TREES DOWN ON BOILING SPRINGS ROAD AND ON RIDGE ROAD.
Jul 7, 3:40 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Tobaccoville, NC	NUMEROUS TREES REPORTED DOWN ALONG NC-67 IN TOBACCOVILLE.
Jul 7, 3:40 PM EDT	TSTM WND GST 0	Tobaccoville, NC	NUMEROUS TREES REPORTED DOWN ALONG NC-67 IN TOBACCOVILLE.
Jul 7, 3:40 PM EDT	TORNADO	Rural Hall, NC	TORNADO REPORTED BY EMS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AT HIGHWAY 52 AND WESTINGHOUSE ROAD.
Jul 7, 3:47 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Meadows, NC	SHED BLOWN OVER
Jul 7, 3:47 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Meadows, NC	SHED BLOWN OVER
Jul 7, 4:10 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Danbury, NC	TREES DOWN.
Jul 7, 4:10 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Danbury, NC	TREES DOWN.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

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, 9:00 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 49 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS51 KRNK 071907
TORRNK
NCC169-072000-
/O.NEW.KRNK.TO.W.0004.050707T1904Z-050707T2000Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
304 PM EDT THU JUL 7 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  STOKES COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 400 PM EDT

* AT 303 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A
  POSSIBLE TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KING...OR ABOUT 2 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF EAST BEND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.  AT 245 
  PM...THERE WERE PUBLIC REPORTS OF TREES DOWN AND A SHED BLOWN
  OFF ITS FOUNDATION IN YADKINVILLE.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...

  KING...
  PINNACLE...
  CAPELLA...
  VADE MECUM...
  DANBURY...

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST
DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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 3624 8047 3610 8045 3626 8019 3648 8004
      3654 8036 3644 8043 3631 8044

$$

PEM

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS51 KRNK 071930
SVSRNK

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
326 PM EDT THU JUL 7 2005

NCC169-072000-
/O.CON.KRNK.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-050707T2000Z/
STOKES NC-
326 PM EDT THU JUL 7 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 400 PM EDT FOR STOKES COUNTY...

AT 325 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED JUST NORTHEAST OF 
KING...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO VADE 
MECUM...FRANCISCO...MEADOWS...DANBURY...COLLINSTOWN...DILLARD AND 
PRESTONVILLE.

HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT
TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE.

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADIC THREAT...THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS BEEN 
PRODUCING NUMEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.  THIS IS A DANGEROUS 
ELECTRICAL STORM AND REQUIRES THAT YOU TAKE ACTION NOW  MOVE 
INDOORS...AWAY FROM WINDOWS...PREFERABLY IN A BASEMENT. 

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM EDT THURSDAY AFTERNOON
FOR NORTHWESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA.

LAT...LON 3624 8047 3610 8045 3626 8019 3648 8004
      3654 8036 3644 8043 3631 8044

$$

PEM

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, 3:55 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
Jul 7, 5:10 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RNK	Caswell	28 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.