Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1990, 2:04 PM EDT for Buckingham County, Fluvanna County, Virginia. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 1990, 2:04 PM EDT (18:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1990, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Buckingham County, VA, Fluvanna 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 10, 9:58 AM EDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, May 10, 1:39 PM EDT, 25 minutes before
VAZ001>004-101830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK VA 1:30 PM EDT THU MAY 10 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF EASTERN VIRGINIA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEASTERN AND EASTERN VIRGINIA. IN EASTERN AND SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA THE WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES.. ..ESSEX..GLOUCESTER..ISLE OF WIGHT..JAMES CITY..MATHEWS..MIDDLESEX.. NORTHUMBERLAND..RICHMOND..SOUTHAMPTON..SURRY..SUSSEX..WESTMORELAND.. AND YORK. CITES IN EASTERN AND SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA INCLUDED IN THE TORNADO WATCH AREA..EMPORIA..NEWPORT NEWS..WILLIAMSBURG..AND HAMPTON. THE TORNADO WATCH WILL CONTINUE UNTIL 7PM EDT TONIGHT. AT 1:30 THIS AFTERNOON AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE BAY WAS MOVING TOWARDS THE EAST AT AROUND 30 MPH. ACROSS CENTRAL..EASTERN AND SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA SHOWERS WERE PREDOMINANT WITH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS NOW FORMING IN THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS OF VIRGINIA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TOWARDS THE EAST AROUND 30 MPH. REMEMBER..A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. ANOTHER STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED AROUND 3:30PM THIS AFTERNOON OR EARLIER IF NECESSARY. YANKES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Amelia, Nottoway | 48 min |
| May 10, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Prince George, City of Petersburg | 49 min |
| May 10, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Prince George | 45 min |
| May 10, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Gloucester | 68 min |
| May 10, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | York | 68 min |
| May 10, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach | 45 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990
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.