Alert archive / Virginia / Tornado Warnings in 1989
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this tornado warning at Feb 21, 1989, 1:00 PM EST for Southampton County, Virginia. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 21, 1989, 1:00 PM EST (18:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 21, 1989, 2:00 PM EST
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Southampton County, VA
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Cape Hatteras, NC (KHAT), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 863 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 11:43 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Brunswick, Mecklenburg | 62 min |
| Feb 21, 1:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Suffolk | 60 min |
| Feb 21, 1:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Virginia Beach | 60 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.